Articles tagged "don cheadle"

TV Review

Independent Lens: Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Feb.09] :. As Adjust Your Color recounts, Petey Greene used his groundbreaking radio and television talk shows to influence millions, winning two Emmy awards and varieties of adulation over the years.

Recent TV reviews

Film Review

Hotel for Dogs

by Renee Scolaro Mora

[16.Jan.09] :. Hotel for Dogs is wholly predictable and tiring, delivering its “message” with all the subtlety of a flashing neon sign.

Recent Film reviews

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

News

Hollywood, race and the Age of Obama

by Christopher Kelly [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[26.Dec.08] :. Gook. Dragon lady. Swamp rats. These are but a few of the cringe-inducing racial epithets spewed by Clint Eastwood’s Walt Kowalski in “Gran Torino,” the cringe-inducing new drama...

PopWire

News

Don Cheadle likes to be surprised, so he looks for a diversity of roles

by Robert W. Butler [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[28.Aug.08] :. If you say “John Wayne,” you know what you’re getting. If you say “Don Cheadle,” prepare to be surprised. “I didn’t get into this business to do the same...

PopWire

Film Review

Traitor

by Cynthia Fuchs

[27.Aug.08] :. While the film appears at first to be complicating the definition of "traitor," it's not long before the potential meanings are reductive and literal.

Recent Film reviews

Talk to Me

by Jake Meaney

[29.Nov.07] :. Vibrant, exuberant, colorful and irresistibly alive, Talk to Me is a celebration of a lifestyle as much as a life -- the thumping funk, soul and R&B of the late '60s, early '70s.

Darfur Now

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Nov.07] :. The documentary showcases small steps, its subjects' work moment by moment to confront a crisis that appears overwhelming -- to feed one child, shelter one rape victim.

Don Cheadle keeps it real in ‘Talk to Me’

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

[27.Jul.07] :. LOS ANGELES—Don Cheadle doesn’t want to punch a reporter. But he may need to punch a reporter. “I need to do something,” the soft-spoken actor says with a laugh, between...

Don Cheadle gets the word out about ‘Talk to Me’

by Terry Lawson [Detroit Free Press (MCT)]

[13.Jul.07] :. “You do what you are able to do,” says Cheadle. “That’s my responsibility as a human. But as an actor, you know, I don’t always want to represent all that is good and noble. Sometimes you just want to, you know, get down a little bit.”

Jerry Weintraub is the ‘heart and soul’ of the ‘Ocean’s’ trilogy

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

[8.Jun.07] :. BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.—Frank Sinatra lived two doors down. Cary Grant dropped by regularly. Tom Cruise just bought the house next door. George Clooney sits by the pool. Brad and Angelina have...

Oceans Thirteen (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Jun.07] :. Every time George Clooney or Bernie Mac admits to the lameness of Number Two, the third film in the franchise can't help but promise improvement.

Monkey Business (Part 3: July)

by Bill Gibron

[3.May.07] :. Finally, a month with only one remaining series contender. All wizard based Potter-y aside, this will be the most tenuous time for the business called show. After a strong start, the eccentric collection of entertainments here could make or break this potentially record shattering motion picture season.

Monkey Business (Part 2: June)

by Bill Gibron

[2.May.07] :. Apparently, as the sun's strongest rays finally settle over the movie going public, sequels are the remedy to cool down an overheated demographic. This month alone holds five examples of such redux refreshment. The rest of the choices are a variety pack of genres, ideas and possibilities.

Mike Binder’s ‘Reign Over Me’ came out of 9/11

by Terry Lawson [Detroit Free Press (MCT)]

[25.Mar.07] :. BIRMINGHAM, Mich.—Like most everyone, director Mike Binder knows exactly where he was on 9/11. Unlike most of us, though, he didn’t witness it on TV. “I had just finished doing an...

Reign Over Me (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Mar.07] :. Even as it probes the difficulties of coping with loss and showcases Cheadle's remarkable capacity for compelling understatement, it also grants Sandler too much time to practice his seriosity in close-up.

The PopMatters ‘Short Ends & Leader’ Spring Film Preview

by Bill Gibron

[2.Mar.07] :. In order to separate the worthy from the worthless, PopMatters' "Short Ends & Leader" editor is highlighting 10 new films he's looking forward to this spring.

Crash (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.May.05] :. The lesson seems geared toward those viewers who were surprised by the Rodney King video, that is, people who don't regularly deal with cultural collisions.

Hotel Rwanda (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Apr.05] :. Ambitiously humanitarian, the film uses Paul's plot to allude to the broader tragedy.

The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Jan.05] :. With remote in hand, monitor glare on his face, Sam is suitably horrified when the TV reflects his own sense of disarray.

Hotel Rwanda (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.Jan.05] :. Faith in his own work ethic keeps Paul from acknowledging the turmoil erupting all around him.

The United States of Leland (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Sep.04] :. Leland meets a teacher who's been tending to young hard cases for too long.

The United States of Leland (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[1.Apr.04] :. Leland will come to be instructive and redemptive for others, just as he has tried to find instruction and redemption in others.

Manic (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.Feb.04] :. As Lyle first enters the ward, the film takes on a yellow cast, blurry and skittery under an Aphex Twin track.

Manic (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[29.May.03] :. Lyle confronts a pack of variously troubled kids, joined together in relentless and surly angst.

Ocean’s Eleven (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.Dec.01] :. The background surf, unbuttoned shirt, and look away from the camera -- all this demonstrates just how movie-starness is done. The plot, like I say, is beside the point.

Swordfish (2001)

by Todd R. Ramlow

What is most distressing about 'Swordfish' is John Travolta. More and more, Travolta is becoming a caricature of himself as action anti/hero.

Swordfish (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Intrigue, deception, display, betrayal. All this is what it is, typical action flick sex-play, foreplay for the big explosion or something equally prosaic.

Rush Hour 2 (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Like most sequels, 'Rush Hour 2' does what the first film did, only louder and more extravagantly.

Mission to Mars (2000)

by Tobias Peterson

The following review contains spoilers. Manifest Density From the Louisiana Purchase to the Mexican-American war, the history of the United States is punctuated often by federally...

Mission to Mars (2000)

by Mike Ward

Kurt Neumann’s 1950 Rocketship X-M may be the progenitor of space exploration films, at least if you believe the claims its video box makes for it. If this is true, then it’s a...

The Family Man (2000)

by Renee Scolaro Rathke

‘Tis the season for those feel-good holiday movies. You know, the ones where Fate arrives in one form or another to teach us a lesson. Often this lesson involves time travel: the...