Articles tagged "david arquette"

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Hamlet 2 (2008)

by Bill Gibron

[20.Dec.08] :. There is nothing wrong with earnestness. Trying too hard usually validates the effort. But when it comes to comedy, being obvious can often lead to being unbearable. Sometimes, it’s better to...

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“Hamlet’ Rotten for Wrong Reasons

by Bill Gibron

[26.Aug.08] :. There is nothing wrong with earnestness. Trying too hard usually validates the effort. But when it comes to comedy, being obvious can often lead to being unbearable. Sometimes, it’s better to...

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Film Review

Hamlet 2

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Aug.08] :. Dana's inability to parse the difference between acting and living is put to several tests in Hamlet 2, which is not only the name of his movie but also the title of the audacious play he writes for his students to perform.

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The PopMatters Summer 2008 Movie Preview Feature

The Return of the Popcorn Circus: August 2008

by Bill Gibron

[1.May.08] :. Talk about a crowded schedule. There are more offerings scheduled this month than in the previous two combined.

The PopMatters Summer 2008 Movie Preview

 

TV Review

The Knights of Prosperity / In Case of Emergency

by Daynah Burnett

[10.Jan.07] :. So here's the pitches I imagine occurred for ABC's new sitcoms: What if Danny Ocean looked and acted like Homer Simpson and not George Clooney? Or, what if the high school valedictorian ended up a masseuse at Korean "massage" parlor?

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Film DVD Review

Never Die Alone (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Jul.04] :. 'I look older in person than I come across on film,' observes DMX while watching himself in Never Die Alone.

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Never Die Alone (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Mar.04] :. King's funeral opens Never Die Alone, but his throbbing self-consciousness drives it.

 

The Grey Zone (2002)

by Elbert Ventura

[31.Oct.02] :. This crepuscular work offers the most realistic depiction of the infernal workings of a Nazi death camp ever seen in a fiction film.

 

Eight Legged Freaks (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Jul.02] :. The we-love-'50s-giant bug-movies homage by Independence Day and Godzilla makers.

 

3000 Miles to Graceland (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Even the magnetic Ice T -- who has about three minutes on screen as a super-sneery mercenary and who has notoriously bad taste when it comes to picking scripts -- looks like he's made an unusually bad decision with '3000 Miles to Graceland'.

 

Scream 3 (2000)

by Susan E. Brown

The Scream series has always been about movies. But unlike most movies, the Scream movies have always been smarter than commentaries about it, and in particular, smarter than the commentaries about its commentaries on movies.

 

See Spot Run (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

See Spot Run begins just like Lethal Weapon or any one of its 1001 clones. The camera speeds over a cityscape and an intensive drumbeat fills the soundtrack. Suddenly, you’re...

 

Scream 3 (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

The Scream series has always been about movies. But unlike most movies, the Scream movies have always been smarter than commentaries about it, and in particular, smarter than the commentaries about its commentaries on movies.

 

Ready to Rumble (2000)

by P. Nelson Reinsch

Ready to Rumble is ostensibly a simple comedy of bumbling bumpkins - in this case lovers of professional wrestling - along the lines of Farrelly brothers' films like Dumb and Dumber and Kingpin.