Articles tagged "connie nielsen"

Film Review

Battle in Seattle

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Sep.08] :. Even as various people try to "do their jobs" in Battle in Seattle, they are repeatedly boxed in by lack of information and lack of power.

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The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview Feature

Talk, Talk, Talk: September 2008

by Bill Gibron

[9.Sep.08] :. From wars both past and present to a number of nail-biting thrillers, September is sizing up as a potentially profitable one.

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TV Review

The Situation

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Mar.08] :. As The Situation makes a mucky melodrama out of the war in Iraq, it accommodates an American perspective of its own actions.

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Film Review

The Situation (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.Feb.07] :. Even as The Situation makes a mucky melodrama out of the war in Iraq, this effect does not seem entirely inappropriate, as it accommodates a U.S. perspective of its own actions.

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Film DVD Review

The Great Raid: The Director’s Cut (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[30.Jan.06] :. Archive shots of broken, diseased, and starved bodies provide a devastating illustration of the history that drives the film's fictions.

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Film Review

The Ice Harvest (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Nov.05] :. If Charlie appears seem energetic, if not exactly inspired, it's only because he's in constant, circular motion.

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Gladiator: Extended Edition (2000)

by John G. Nettles

[23.Sep.05] :. It's a bad sign for your making-of doc when the most interesting folks to listen to are the studio weasels.

 

The Great Raid (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Aug.05] :. The relationship between heroism and villainy remains reductive, subjective, and devastatingly predictable.

 

The Hunted (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Aug.03] :. 'For me,' declares Friedkin, just hearing the Dylan lyric spoken by Johnny Cash is worth making a film for.

 

Basic (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Mar.03] :. As its title suggests, John McTiernan's new action-thriller, 'Basic' is not very new.

 

The Hunted (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Mar.03] :. Benicio Del Toro looks appropriately haunted in The Hunted.

 

One Hour Photo (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Aug.02] :. Neatly, ominously, the film composes a bleak vision of Sy's consumption of and by his culture.

 

Mission to Mars (2000)

by Tobias Peterson

The following review contains spoilers. Manifest Density From the Louisiana Purchase to the Mexican-American war, the history of the United States is punctuated often by federally...

 

Mission to Mars (2000)

by Mike Ward

Kurt Neumann’s 1950 Rocketship X-M may be the progenitor of space exploration films, at least if you believe the claims its video box makes for it. If this is true, then it’s a...

 

Gladiator (2000)

by Lucas Hilderbrand

They don’t make movies like they used to. But then again, why would they? Gladiator claims to be a return to the days of Spartacus, Ben Hur, and those preposterously huge...