Articles tagged "derek jacobi"

Film DVD Review

The Old Curiosity Shop

by Lara Killian

[2.Jun.09] :. If you like your Dickens dark, this is about as bleak as it gets.

Recent DVD reviews

 

Film DVD Review

Underworld and Underworld: Evolution

by Stuart Henderson

[8.Feb.09] :. Whereas The Matrix relied on hyper-cool outfits and the beauty of stylized action sequences to help tell its weird little story, Underworld relies on them to try to make us forget that we are watching a story this insipid.

Recent DVD reviews

 

Film Review

Underworld: Evolution (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Jan.06] :. Race here is not an inherent or stable identity, but mutable and mutating.

Recent Film reviews

 

Film DVD Review

Gladiator: Extended Edition (2000)

by John G. Nettles

[23.Sep.05] :. It's a bad sign for your making-of doc when the most interesting folks to listen to are the studio weasels.

Recent DVD reviews

 

Film DVD Review

Gosford Park (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[27.Jun.02] :. It is clear about what it is, a study of affect that is also affected.

Recent DVD reviews

 

Film Review

Up at the Villa (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

What were they thinking? In Up at the Villa, Sean Penn plays a wealthy American rapscallion tearing around 1938’s Europe, arching his eyebrow by way of seducing rich ladies. This would...

Recent Film reviews

 

Gladiator (2000)

by Lucas Hilderbrand

They don’t make movies like they used to. But then again, why would they? Gladiator claims to be a return to the days of Spartacus, Ben Hur, and those preposterously huge...

 

Gosford Park (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

It is clear about what it is, a study of affect that is also affected.

 

The Body (2001)

by Kim Ayer

... examines the threat science poses to organized religion.