Articles tagged "christopher lee"![]() Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999 FeaturePart 4: All About My Mother to Sleepy Hollow (October - November 1999)by PopMatters Staff[26.Mar.09] :. Outsiders and oddballs make up Part Four's formidable filmmakers, an idiosyncratic collection of dreamers and visionaries. Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999 ![]() PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008 FeatureOff the Radar - The Top 30 DVDs of 2008by PopMatters Staff[13.Jan.09] :. Oddly enough, while the major studios continue scratching their heads over how to sell yet another new format (Blu-ray) to disinterested consumers, several outside distributors made sure that this would be a digital year to remember. PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008 ![]() Special Interest DVD ReviewTerry Pratchett’s Discworld Collectionby Lara Killian[18.Sep.08] :. Playfulness with language is so much fun when reading Pratchett, but jokes based on homonyms lose their effectiveness on screen. ![]() Film DVD ReviewSweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Streetby Jack Patrick Rodgers[2.Apr.08] :. Burton indulges in meticulously designed, deliberately artificial sets, cinematography that makes the world monochromatic, protagonists with pale skin and sunken eyes – but it's that passion coursing beneath the surface that makes this film feel more alive than anything he's done in years. ![]() PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007 FeatureA Gallery of Good Works: The Best Films of 2007by PopMatters Staff[11.Jan.08] :. From Julian Schnabel's artsy The Diving Bell and the Butterfly to the legendary Coen Brothers splendid adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men, PopMatters counts down the 30 best films of 2007. PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007 NewsChristopher Lee remains busy after 60 years of actingby Doug Nye [McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)][10.Jan.08] :. It’s difficult to believe that it’s been 50 years since Christopher Lee thrilled horror fans with his portrayals of the Frankenstein monster, Dracula and the Mummy in a memorable series... Alan Rickman can be a saint, but sometimes evil becomes himby Robert W. Butler [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][4.Jan.08] :. Alan Rickman isn’t a bad guy. He just often plays one. Bad guys like Gruber in “Die Hard,” Marston in “Quigly Down Under” and the Sheriff of Nottingham in “Robin... PopMatters Pick![]() Film ReviewSweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Streetby Cynthia Fuchs[21.Dec.07] :. Sweeney Todd is delirious with blood and violence: bright red spurting from the barber's expert slashes, necks snapping and bodies crumpling. Tim Burton knew he was cut out to direct `Sweeney Todd’by Roger Moore [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)][18.Dec.07] :. You’d think you could get a rise out of Tim Burton by pigeon-holing the guy, telling him that the blood-spattered Stephen Sondheim musical “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet... Pope John Paul IIby Kevin Garcia[13.Jun.07] :. This film provides insight into John Paul Two's character that no unauthorized biography could have achieved. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)by Cynthia Fuchs[19.Dec.02] :. It's useful to remember that, offscreen, both good and bad tend to be tricksy. Star Wars: Episode II—Attack of the Clones (2002)by Tara Taghizadeh[24.May.02] :. So in a post-September 11th world replete with conflicts from Afghanistan to continuous Palestinian-Israeli disputes, the lines between good and evil often seem blurry, and the cut-and-dry antics of galactic warriors instill a sense of hope, a realization of what morality should be. Who would've thought that the likes of Yoda, Obi Wan Kenobi and Chewbacca would serve as heroes for a celluloid generation whose sense of a world order would become crystal clear as a result of a few fictional characters?" Star Wars: Episode II—Attack of the Clones (2002)by Todd R. Ramlow[15.May.02] :. There are so very many characters playing central roles in the second half of the series, and accounting for all of their geneses is tricky indeed. Sleepy Hollow (1999)by P. Nelson ReinschWhen the Burgomaster (played by still great Horror film legend Christopher Lee) sends Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp) to Sleepy Hollow, you may suspect that Ichabod is being sent to the land of Hammer Horror, or perhaps the woods of Horror Movies Past. |
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