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Woolf at the Door

by Jennifer Makowsky

[1.Mar.09] :. Both Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and Michael Cunningham's The Hours offer an illuminating look at the choices we make, the roles we play, and the hours that hinge our lives together.

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‘My So-Called Life’ wears well on DVD

by Ellen Gray [Philadelphia Daily News (MCT)]

[1.Nov.07] :. Thirteen years ago, I fell hard for a girl who’d fallen hard for a boy. Both of us got our hearts broken. The girl was Angela Chase, the 15-year-old center of the universe that was...

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PopMatters Picks: The Best of TV on DVD Feature

Part 3 - The New Networks

by PopMatters Staff

[10.Oct.07] :. It would never work... no one challenged the reigning broadcast junta and survived. No surprise then that the upstarts snuck in and changed the face of TV forever.

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Stardust

by Bill Gibron

[19.Aug.07] :. Where and when, exactly, did Neil Gaiman earn all his geek love credentials?

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‘Stardust’ creator reflects on flights of movie fancy

by Mark de la Vina [San Jose Mercury News, Calif. (MCT)]

[10.Aug.07] :. If there were ever a moment the moviegoing public might suffer from a case of pixie-dust poisoning, now’s the time. With Hogwarts, hobbits and all manner of hobgoblins haunting movies, the...

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Stardust

by Daynah Burnett

[10.Aug.07] :. What Stardust wields in star power, it lacks in original, or even interesting, storytelling.

Michelle Pfeiffer winning acclaim for her recent work

by Roger Moore [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)]

[9.Aug.07] :. Michelle Pfeiffer has been bracing herself for it all summer, that moment when a reporter would use “the c-word” to describe her re-emergence in the movies. “I thought I’d be...

Evening (2007)

by Mike Scalise

[6.Jul.07] :. More troubling than Evening's technical failures, the film suffers from a host of cynical political and social themes that undercut the drama throughout.

Claire Danes didn’t miss her chance to meet Redgrave

by Steven Rea [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[21.Jun.07] :. In “Evening,” Claire Danes didn’t exactly work with Vanessa Redgrave. It was like she got to be Vanessa Redgrave - or, more precisely, the woman Redgrave plays. A handsome...

Monkey Business (Part 4: August)

by Bill Gibron

[4.May.07] :. In past years, Hollywood purposely counter programmed these renowned Cineplex dog days, trying to offset the perception that cinematic scraps were all the studios had to offer. From the look of this lame list, it's apparently back to the filmic fridge for some patently warmed over offerings.

Shopgirl (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Apr.06] :. Director Anand Tucker insists his film is not about the glitzy L.A. It is, instead, about an L.A. populated with 'ordinary people just like you and me, getting on with their lives.'"

The Family Stone (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Dec.05] :. The self-congratulating, liberal-leaning Stones are addled when good boy Everett (Dermot Mulroney) brings home the very bad fiancée.

Shopgirl (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Oct.05] :. For all its seeming delicacy, its view of Mirabelle as perfect, precious object is decidedly limited.

The Hours (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Jul.03] :. 'What I learned seeing the movie is that yes, you do lose that ability to go into people's minds, but you gain Meryl Streep's ability to separate an egg, in a way that tells you everything you need to know about who that person is at that point.'"

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Jul.03] :. The T-101 is determined to complete his mission, to protect them, to be the best, most committed, and most confounding daddy that John Connor will ever have.

The Hours (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Jan.03] :. The women are also functions of a coherent narrative, made comprehensible as embodiments of historical patterns.

Igby Goes Down (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Sep.02] :. Burr Steers' first feature is populated by exceptionally quirky characters, most related by blood.

Brokedown Palace (1999)

by Cynthia Fuchs

High school movies tend to end with graduation. It's at the prom that the primary couple finally achieves their much-anticipated clinch (with camera circling and trendy pop song resounding) while their adversaries - treacherous teachers, jealous fellow students, ridiculous parents - back off or smile approvingly, showing that they have indeed learned whatever lessons they're supposed to have learned.