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Articles tagged "david arquette"![]() Short Ends and Leader“Hamlet’ Rotten for Wrong Reasonsby 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... ![]() Film ReviewHamlet 2by 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. ![]() Film DVD ReviewNever 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. ![]() Film ReviewNever Die Alone (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[26.Mar.04] :. King's funeral opens Never Die Alone, but his throbbing self-consciousness drives it. ![]() Film ReviewThe 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. ![]() Film ReviewEight 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 FuchsEven 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. BrownThe 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 FuchsSee 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 FuchsThe 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 ReinschReady 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. |
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