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Passengers

by Jesse Hassenger

[13.May.09] :. As much effort as apparently went into it, the film nonetheless feels like a pit stop for everyone involved.

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Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999 Feature

Part 5: Toy Story 2 to Titus (November - December 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[27.Mar.09] :. On this final day of PopMatters' 1999 overview, awards season hype gives way to pure acting prowess and definitive directorial flair.

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

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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TV DVD Review

John Adams (HBO Miniseries)

by Chris Barsanti

[23.Jun.08] :. Avoiding the powdered-wig iconography of the founding fathers, this film broadens the view of these revolutionary leaders and their tumultuous times.

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David Morse: From ‘St. Elsewhere’ to George Washington

by Joseph V. Amodio [Newsday (MCT)]

[27.Feb.08] :. Before there was a Dr. Kovac or Dr. Greene on “ER,” before McDreamy on “Grey’s Anatomy,” there was Dr. Jack “Boomer” Morrison, a likable young physician...

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Film DVD Review

Disturbia

by Bill Gibron

[16.Aug.07] :. Similar to the way Blade Runner effortlessly channels the archetypes of noir inside the wholly original world of a futuristic LA.

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‘Disturbia’ star Shia LaBeouf was destined for an acting career

by Barry Koltnow [The Orange County Register (MCT)]

[16.Apr.07] :. "When you look into his eyes, you can see an old soul," said "Disturbia" director D.J. Caruso.

Disturbia (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Apr.07] :. For all its revisiting of Rear Window's basic themes, however, Disturbia is most effective when it points to the differences between then and now.

St. Elsewhere - Season 1

by Mark Labowskie

[9.Feb.07] :. St. Elsewheremodernized narrative structure, shook up the visual language of TV drama, and introduced "place" as the central character around which the actors came and went.

Down in the Valley (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[4.May.06] :. Look out: here comes another revisionist Western.

16 Blocks (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Mar.06] :. Richard Donner's latest buddy-action flick is thick with wrong decisions.

Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Oct.05] :. Though Ben is gruff and finds it difficult to cuddle up with his adorable daughter, the movie gives him good (or least movie-like) reason.

Double Vision (Shuang Tong) (2002)

by Jennifer D. Wesley

[9.Sep.03] :. Shows how the struggle to see and know is an increasingly complex and global one.

Hack

by Lesley Smith

[30.Sep.02] :. It's life-changing redemption all the way, at the hands of a flawed saint who can instruct us all.

Proof of Life (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Alice is quite visibly 'alone,' differentiated by her race and class from the folks who populate the streets, marketplaces, and televised protests against the oil company. And indeed, Alice's bond with Terry begins with the fact that he's Anglo, and she feels she can 'trust' him.

Proof of Life (2000)

by Renee Scolaro Rathke

The camera pans across the protest scene focusing briefly on a placard in Spanish but conveniently translated to English in subtitle: 'Shoot the Imperialist Bastards.' This sudden interjection is startling, set against a backdrop of relative fluff.

Hearts in Atlantis (2001)

by Todd R. Ramlow

The nostalgia infusing 'Hearts in Atlantis' often makes the film infuriating, as well as just plain dopey.

The Green Mile (1999)

by Cynthia Fuchs

ound dogs baying, wildflowers bending to the wind, angry white men in shirt-sleeves carrying shotguns, a swatch of cloth clinging to a tree branch. The details are all a little too familiar. You know you're looking at yet another recreation of the scary Old American South, specifically, you're looking at the set up for a lynching. This first scene of Frank Darabont's The Green Mile...

The Green Mile (1999)

by Mark Reiter

It's not news to anyone that Steven King screen adaptations get tossed into two categories: absolute crap (Maximum Overdrive, Cujo, Pet Cemetery, et. al.) and important American cinema (Stanley Kubrick's The Shining and Frank Darabont's previous King adaptation, The Shawshank Redemption).

Dancer in the Dark (2000)

by Todd R. Ramlow

'Dancer in the Dark', for all its fantastical musical excursions and all its tear-jerkiness nevertheless brings home the sobering reminder that justice does not always prevail.

Dancer in the Dark (2000)

by Lucas Hilderbrand

It seems only a film as schizophrenic as 'Dancer in the Dark' would suit Björk, what with its melancholic moments of quiet and curious explosions of sound.

Crazy in Alabama (1999)

by Anne Daugherty, rating: 5.0

Crazy in Alabama concerns two concurrent stories, which take place in small town Alabama in the mid '60s. One centers on the inhumanity and injustice of segregation, while the other tells of a woman following her dream, even though it means killing her husband and deserting her children to do so.

Bait (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

The film's most effective balancing act comes in the form of Foxx's terrific performance: throughout, he's quirky, subtle, and thankfully able to keep up with the movie's lurching tone-and-genre shifts, from comedy to action to almost-arty to melodrama.