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Film DVD Review

Bottle Shock

by Michael Curtis Nelson

[23.Mar.09] :. Unlike films that provide insights into an agricultural practice while telling a story, this is about everything but wine.

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Film DVD Review

What Happens in Vegas

by Sam Maclean

[29.Aug.08] :. As the saying (sort of) goes, what happens in Vegas should stay in Vegas -- so, too with this film.

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Film Review

Bottle Shock

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Aug.08] :. The international competition serves as backdrop for a cloying tale of underdogs inspired by rather sudden patriotic fervor.

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Film Review

What Happens in Vegas

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.May.08] :. In What Happens in Vegas, Joy and Jack are fated to fall in lazy-movie-love.

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The PopMatters Summer 2008 Movie Preview Feature

The Return of the Popcorn Circus: May 2008

by Bill Gibron

[28.Apr.08] :. In the first act of this four-part production, Tinsel Town decides to do some unbelievable front loading. Will there be room for independent offerings, or former HBO carnal comedy divas? Who knows? Without a doubt, it's an interesting way to start the season.

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Film Review

The Grand

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Mar.08] :. Werner Herzog plays The German. In another movie, this might be all you need to know.

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You Kill Me

by Shaun Huston

[19.Oct.07] :. An alcoholic hit man is sent to San Francisco by his “family” to achieve sobriety. You Kill Me is another “mobster in therapy” movie, but with a fresh perspective.

 

You Kill Me (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[25.Jun.07] :. While he's largely unsocialized, having spent so much time alone, murdering people, and, lately, drinking, Frank does evince a weird charm.

 

Get Shorty (Special Edition) (1995)

by Jesse Hassenger

[17.Feb.05] :. Sonnenfeld keeps all of this under two hours by cutting the movie at a dazzling clip. The film moves like Travolta, quickly and with style.

 

Paparazzi (2004)

by Stephen Haag

[17.Jan.05] :. Bo stalks the paparazzi with an obsessiveness that trumps their stalking of him -- but it's okay, because he's defending his family.

 

Paparazzi (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Jan.05] :. 'In case you're wondering,' says director Paul Abascal, 'in this movie, the paparazzi are very sleazy guys.'"

 

Law & Order / Law & Order: Special Victims Unit / Law & Order: Criminal Intent

by Lesley Smith

[4.Oct.04] :. D'Onofrio plays Goren superbly, as a jittery autodidact so deeply aware of his own psychological fragility that he has simply abandoned any emotional life outside his own insights into the motivations of major criminals.

 

Paparazzi (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Sep.04] :. It's all so very Princess Di.

 

Collateral (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Aug.04] :. Michael Mann's new film shows what anyone who's paid attention to Jamie Foxx has known for some time: he is excellent.

 

Snatch (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Sep.02] :. Snatch is all about attitude and style. And guys, lots of guys.

 

Sidewalks of New York (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

PULL.

 

Snatch (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Snatch is all about attitude and style. And guys, lots of guys. Aggressive and jumpy, packed with brutish hooligans and feckless crooks, it’s a guys’ throw-down movie and then...

 

Reindeer Games (2000)

by P. Nelson Reinsch

The spirit of world class schlock-horror promoter William Castle was in the theater recently, during a preview screening of Pitch Black, as flashlights were given to a number of audience members.