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Crossing Over

by Renee Scolaro Mora

[6.Mar.09] :. In its stories of immigration, Crossing Over raises questions: how far are we willing to bend the rules to get what we desire? What will we risk to uphold our own values?

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The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview Feature

Talk, Talk, Talk: October 2008

by Bill Gibron

[10.Sep.08] :. What studio suit thought this was a good idea? With four months to schedule your high priced efforts, you instead unload almost 30 overpriced pictures on an unsuspecting movie audience.

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You’ve never heard of the ‘10,000 B.C.’ cast — and that was intentional

by Rick Bentley [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[9.Mar.08] :. Roland Emmerich had a specific plan when he started casting the lead roles for his new feature film, “10,000 B.C.” There was no way he was going to cast a familiar face. “I knew I...

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Film Review

10,000 B.C.

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Mar.08] :. 10,000 B.C. is audaciously backwards.

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PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007 Feature

A Gallery of Good Works: The Best Films of 2007

by 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

 

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British director gets around to making his own sci-fi adventure

by Rene Rodriguez [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[30.Jul.07] :. Soon after having made his second film, the exuberant drug-addiction drama “Trainspotting,” Danny Boyle got a lucrative offer from 20th Century Fox to direct the fourth installment in the...

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‘Sunshine’ star Michelle Yeoh hits the heights

by Ethan Sacks [New York Daily News (MCT)]

[26.Jul.07] :. The world’s most famous female action heroine is deathly afraid of heights. Yet there was Michelle Yeoh, lashed into a nose-diving stunt plane to simulate zero gravity, in preparation for her...

 
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Film Review

Sunshine (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Jul.07] :. The notion of loss pervades Sunshine, even as calculations of self are increasingly complex.

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The PopMatters ‘Short Ends & Leader’ Spring Film Preview

by Bill Gibron

[2.Mar.07] :. In order to separate the worthy from the worthless, PopMatters' "Short Ends & Leader" editor is highlighting 10 new films he's looking forward to this spring.

 

Whale Rider (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Nov.03] :. Pai comes into her own by juggling expectations and desires.

 

Runaway Jury (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Oct.03] :. Besieged by John Grishamish plot twisties, the actors in Runaway Jury do their best to fashion an emotional coherence.

 

Whale Rider (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Jun.03] :. Eleven-year-old Pai is wholly engaging and elegant, on her own terms.

 

Collateral Damage (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Feb.02] :. As Schwarzenegger described the whole shebang to the guys on 'Fox NFL Sunday', 'There's some serious butt-kicking going on.'"

 

Training Day (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Plausibility is plainly not Training Day's concern. It's more interested in images and ideas than practicalities.