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Race to Witch Mountain

by Renee Scolaro Mora

[13.Mar.09] :. Race to Witch Mountain holds no surprises (even granting that it's a remake).

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Dwayne Johnson isn’t the first athlete turned actor

by Lewis Beale [Newsday (MCT)]

[12.Mar.09] :. Now that Dwayne Johnson is no longer billing himself as “The Rock,” he’s become a movie star in family-friendly films like “Race to Witch Mountain,” opening Friday. But...

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

Best Complexities in 2008

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Jan.09] :. The most remarkable films of 2008 were small, smart, and complicated. While they're surely worth seeking out for their own pleasures, they also represent the sort of movies that will find theatrical releases even harder to manage in the shrinking economy.

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Independent Lens: Operation Filmmaker

by Cynthia Fuchs

[30.Dec.08] :. Operation Filmmaker brilliantly reveals how films, politics, and desires do their work.

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Get Smart

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Jun.08] :. Get Smart makes rudimentary efforts to update, with passing references to terrorists, profiling, and inter-agency competition.

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‘Smart’ Sucks

by Bill Gibron

[19.Jun.08] :. By its very definition, something that’s “generic” is seen as “having no particularly distinctive quality or application”. This doesn’t make the object in question...

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Operation Filmmaker

by Cynthia Fuchs

[4.Jun.08] :. Engaging, provocative, and often discomforting, Operation Filmmaker reveals increasing tensions between Muthana and his would-be benefactors, including filmmaker Nina Davenport.

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The Return of the Popcorn Circus: June 2008

by Bill Gibron

[29.Apr.08] :. If May almost tent-poled itself out of existence, June will be even worse. After all, are audiences really ready for 13 major release in less than two months -- with more to come?

 

Accepting the Blame: The Top Guilty Pleasures of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[17.Jan.08] :. PopMatters proffers its collection of 2007's most notable defective faves. And it's okay to laugh. After all, we'd probably do the same to you and your uncomfortable fixations as well.

 

Southland Tales

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Nov.07] :. The very incoherence of Southland Tales is something like an argument, its many pieces and pronouncements a deconstructive challenge to world order.

 

The Rundown (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[25.Sep.03] :. The Rock doesn't want to hurt 'em, but he just can't help it.

 

The Mummy Returns (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Everything in 'The Mummy Returns' is bigger and more expensive, from its impressively enormous matte shots and massive armies composed of thousands of digitized soldiers, to its great swirling sand effects and outsized characters.