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‘Defiance’ Can’t Help But Feel Derivative

by Bill Gibron

[30.Jan.09] :. The Holocaust remains, for all intents and purposes, the ultimate expression of evil in our lifetime. Outside the obvious elements of genocide and the organized political support for same, the...

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‘Defiance’ survivors remember Bielskis’ strength, courage

by Howard Reich [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[22.Jan.09] :. Not all Holocaust stories end in death. For more than 1,200 Jews hunted in the forests of Belarus, life - extraordinarily difficult and dangerous - was possible, thanks to the ingenuity and...

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Flashbacks of a Fool

by Camille Gervais

[18.Jan.09] :. Let’s blame it on his lack of experience but Walsh presents a movie completely vacuous and uncaptivating.

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‘Defiance’ co-stars had to endure cold, primitive conditions to play WWII rebels

by Robert W. Butler [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[16.Jan.09] :. Think Holocaust movie. What do you see? Lines of weary men, women and children being herded to their deaths? That’s the conventional view. But in the based-on-fact World War II drama...

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PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008 Feature

OMG - The 20 Worst Films of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[15.Jan.09] :. There's bad, and then there's 2008 level bad. You know this list is looking down into a deep dark bottomless pit of cinematic despair when Mike Myers' shameful Love Guru didn't even make the Top 20!

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‘Defiance’ director Edward Zwick wants to be the Ken Burns of the multiplex

by Roger Moore [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)]

[12.Jan.09] :. Things didn’t have to work out this way for Edward Zwick. The “thirtysomething” and “My So Called Life” co-creator broke into the movies with “About Last...

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Defiance

by Cynthia Fuchs

[31.Dec.08] :. Defiance's tendency to melodrama drags the rest of this ostensibly historical saga into a decidedly middling territory.

Holo-Cost

by Bill Gibron

[9.Dec.08] :. All across the web this past week, it’s been the subject of much metaphysical ink. As awards season slowly winds down, Hollywood is dragging out the proverbial heavy hitters, and oddly enough,...

Hughes Oughta Know

by Jennifer Makowsky

[3.Dec.08] :. The British Library bought Ted Hughes' literary archive, further inspiring film and literary speculation into his life with Sylvia Plath.

Cut to the Whatever

by Chris Barsanti

[21.Nov.08] :. Marc Forster's Quantum of Solace slices away nearly every element of the old Bond, and leaves nothing in its place.

Quantum of Solace

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Nov.08] :. Bond (Daniel Craig) seems done in by the notion that M is indeed his maternal superior, and so he must please her, or at least pretend that he's playing by rules that he and she and all the rest of us know he disrespects from jump.

Bonding

by Bill Gibron

[13.Nov.08] :. He’s that old friend we hardly recognize anymore, that middle aged idol that’s, apparently, going through a bit of a creative and cultural crisis. Granted, the secret agent is...

‘Quantum of Solace’ star Daniel Craig survived the ‘bad-Bond’ buzz

by Roger Moore [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)]

[11.Nov.08] :. MIAMI - It took Sean Connery decades to escape his James Bond baggage. Roger Moore never did. Pierce Brosnan may slip the tuxedo shackles, providing he doesn’t count on a singing career. But...

‘Quantum of Solace’ picks up where ‘Casino Royale’ left off — literally

by Rene Rodriguez [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[10.Nov.08] :. When “Casino Royale” opened in theaters around the world in November 2006, producer Barbara Broccoli - daughter of original James Bond producer Albert R. Broccoli and keeper of the 007...

Talk, Talk, Talk: December 2008

by Bill Gibron

[12.Sep.08] :. Just like the end of an inspiring speech that may or may not succeed in making its point, these final four weeks before 2009 tend to define or defeat the entire awards season purpose.

Talk, Talk, Talk: November 2008

by Bill Gibron

[11.Sep.08] :. Like the sainted sigh of relief that comes after another shriek-filled All Hallow's Eve, November usually means the start of the 'nominate me' process for the proposed prestige pictures of 2008.

Anglo-Saxon Attitudes

by Amaya Rivera

[23.Jul.08] :. An acid-tongued humor, playing towards a number of stuffy British stereotypes.

The Golden Compass

by Lara Killian

[13.May.08] :. Scruffy and unpolished in the open casting call, Dakota Blue Richards shines in her role as the gutsy heroine.

The author of ‘The Golden Compass’ doesn’t mince words

by Robert K. Elder [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[13.Dec.07] :. He certainly doesn’t look like a god-killer. But that’s how critics cast him: a deity-smashing heretic, bent on spreading godlessness with children’s tales. No, in person, author...

Critics say ‘Golden Compass’ is atheist agenda disguised in fantasy

by Robert W. Butler [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[9.Dec.07] :. Since its beginning, critics have denounced the film industry as a godless enterprise leading innocent minds astray. Now, say the critics, the industry is pushing a children’s movie with an...

Critics say ‘Golden Compass’ is atheist agenda disguised in fantasy

by Robert W. Butler [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[7.Dec.07] :. Since its beginning, critics have denounced the film industry as a godless enterprise leading innocent minds astray. Now, say the critics, the industry is pushing a children’s movie with an...

The Golden Compass

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Dec.07] :. Too bland and disjointed to match up with either set up expectations, The Golden Compass is too familiar to be beguiling, too interested in appeasing masses and selling the Corgi toy line.

Director says initial reaction to ‘Compass’ hasn’t been golden

by Roger Moore [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)]

[6.Dec.07] :. Chris Weitz is a moviemaker on the spot. He’s just directed a multi-million dollar movie fantasy, “The Golden Compass,” which opens around the world Friday. And nobody seems willing...

‘Compass’ author’s atheism stirs debate on film’s message

by Duane Dudek [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT)]

[6.Dec.07] :. Nina Hemmer is a reader. The 11-year-old Shorewood, Wis., girl is plowing through the Bible and hopes “to get to the part about Jesus’ birth by Christmas,” said her mother, Cathy...

The Invasion

by Bill Gibron

[19.Aug.07] :. With 2007’s oft-delayed The Invasion, there is simply no more symbolic juice left.

The Invasion (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Aug.07] :. Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel (who made the impressive Downfall), the film goes from sharp paranoid thriller to noisy action flick.

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.

Casino Royale (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Nov.06] :. The new Bond understands loss, but focuses on revenge instead of grief. He's a hard body in a hard new world.

Infamous (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Oct.06] :. When Truman quite gleefully describes his plan to use 'fictional techniques' to tell his nonfiction story, to shape the Clutter murders as an emblem of cultural malaise, Nelle insists on a knowable distinction between fact and fiction.

Renaissance (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[29.Sep.06] :. Illusion is frequently the threat in noir (the dark alley hides a killer, the femme is fatale), but the SF angle in Renaissance tweaks the possibilities.

Munich (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Dec.05] :. Munich is about the shifting meaning the city's name took on after that dire moment in 1972, the shorthand it became for survivors, historians, and avengers.

Layer Cake (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[4.Oct.05] :. Daniel Craig ensures that you see XXXX's mind wheels turning as he confronts each new impasse.

Layer Cake (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.May.05] :. The hero of Layer Cake has no name. This matters less than you might think.

Enduring Love (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Nov.04] :. Samantha Morton's face seems a perfect object for gazing on.

The Mother (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Jun.04] :. May's new sense of self and awakened sexuality are startling, not least of all to her.

Road to Perdition (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Jul.02] :. The perfectly grim surface evokes eons of pain, as well as a highly stylized contemporary sensibility, not so much cynical as skeptical and self-aware.

Tomb Raider (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

This spectacular image of androgynous, self-stimulating sexual excess speaks directly to the wonder and threat of Lara Croft, so adept at masculine and feminine wiles, and every wile in between.

Tomb Raider (2001)

by Mike Ward

All this symbolism would be quite impressive, actually, if 'Tomb Raider' ever gave the slightest impression it knew where it was going with it or was eventually planning to use these symbols to say something coherent.

I Dreamed of Africa (2000)

by F. L. Carr

Don’t Europeans ever get tired of swooping down to Africa to exploit its peoples and natural resources? Apparently not. I Dreamed of Africa is based on the true story of Kuki Gallman...