Articles tagged "diane lane"

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008 Feature

OMG - The 20 Worst Films of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[15.Jan.09] :. There's bad, and then there's 2008 level bad. You know this list is looking down into a deep dark bottomless pit of cinematic despair when Mike Myers' shameful Love Guru didn't even make the Top 20!

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008

 

Film DVD Review

Ladies and Gentleman, the Fabulous Stains

by Shaun Huston

[16.Oct.08] :. As Corrine Burns, the 15-year-old Diane Lane, simultaneously naïve and hard-edged, negotiates the tensions inherent in rock stardom as well as anyone ever has on screen.

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Short Ends and Leader

These ‘Nights’ are Nauseating

by Bill Gibron

[26.Sep.08] :. Chemistry is the key to a good onscreen romance. Remove this vital cog, and the entire cinematic machine sputters and dies, right? Well, that’s only partially true. One assumes that a...

Short Ends and Leader

 

Film Review

Nights in Rodanthe

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Sep.08] :. In an alternative universe, Jean (Viola Davis) does have a story -- one that you'd rather be seeing as Nights in Rodanthe descends into mundane melodrama.

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The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview Feature

Talk, Talk, Talk: September 2008

by Bill Gibron

[9.Sep.08] :. From wars both past and present to a number of nail-biting thrillers, September is sizing up as a potentially profitable one.

The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview

 

Film DVD Review

Jumper

by Marc Calderaro

[30.Jun.08] :. Brashness and arrogance, and absolutely none of the consequences of either.

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Jumper

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Feb.08] :. The Chechnyan backdrop reminds you yet again of the utter inconsequence of Jumper.

 

Untraceable

by Cynthia Fuchs

[25.Jan.08] :. Even if you take the film's moral lesson at face value, the overkill is discouraging, and not very instructive.

 

Diane Lane’s talent is not `Untraceable’

by John Anderson [Newsday (MCT)]

[21.Jan.08] :. Diane Lane is a little like Zelig, and your birthday. She doesn’t come around all that often, but you’re pretty happy when she does. And she’s been popping in and out of...

 

Hollywoodland (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Sep.06] :. Simo is as self-inflating and lost as George Reeves, his heroism as flimsy and sad.

 

The Outsiders: The Complete Novel (1983)

by Michael Christopher

[21.Oct.05] :. Rarely does a director's cut reflect a vision 'truer' to a source text. But, like most everything else surrounding the picture, The Outsiders: The Complete Novel is quite an anomaly.

 

Must Love Dogs (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[29.Jul.05] :. This family thing is looking rather grim now, as if it's about to swallow the rest of the movie whole.

 

The Big Town (1987)

by Kevin Jagernauth

[23.May.05] :. In Cullen's rise to the top, he summarily steps on everyone who tries to help him or slow him down.

 

Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[25.Sep.03] :. She's yearning for love, or independence, or a lasting exit from the States, where melancholy memories surround her.

 

Unfaithful (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.May.02] :. Unfaithful examines the trouble men get into when women behave too passionately.

 

The Perfect Storm (2000)

by Mike Ward

In a coincidence I assume is meaningless, Das Boot has bubbled up twice this summer movie season, after snoozing for close to 20 years. First evoked in the backhanded homage of Jonathan...

 

The Perfect Storm (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs.'

Here’s how the world ends: Marky Mark afloat on a dark and turbid sea, alone and Pip-like, channeling his true devotion to his loyal girlfriend back on shore. “There’s no...

 

Hardball (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

The fact that Hardball's Conor is white means nothing, of course, except that he's one in a long line of white characters who become 'better people' because they meet adorable, courageous, noble, and/or doomed minority characters.

 

The Glass House (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

'The Glass House' can't manage its own metaphors, and ends up tripping all over itself in order to give them a coherent context.