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Amelia dir. Mira Nair (new film / trailer)

by Eleanore Catolico

[9.Oct.09] :. The legacy of iconic pilot Amelia Earhart still sparks curiosity today. Amelia Earhart is now the subject of a new biopic simply entitled, Amelia, starring Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, and Ewan...

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Angels & Demons

by Todd R. Ramlow

[15.May.09] :. A Harvard professor is an unlikely candidate for the hero of a summer blockbuster, and Angels & Demons demonstrates exactly why. The film is filled with talk, talk, talk.

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The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview Feature

Summer of Same: May 2009

by Bill Gibron

[27.Apr.09] :. May's titles include the fourth films in two aging franchises, more Pixar perfection, and the reboot of a TV series from 40 years ago. And they say there are no new ideas.

The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview

 

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999 Feature

Part 1: The Thin Red Line to Star Wars Episode I (January - May 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[23.Mar.09] :. The first part of PopMatters' look back at the films of 1999 is bookended by the long awaited return of two cinematic auteurs of wildly different styles, Terrence Malick and George Lucas.

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

 

Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs Feature

Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs: Part 3

by PopMatters Staff

[16.Oct.08] :. Day Three - The final ten, a cross-culture collection teeming with big ideas, larger than life visions, and perhaps the greatest documentary on rugby you've probably never heard of.

Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs

 

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Deception

by Barbara Herman

[15.Oct.08] :. Like the sex scenes, the film itself is cold and remote, and as viewers, we merely go through the motions, watching it.

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Filling up heart and soul on the road

by Rick Bentley [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[31.Jul.08] :. Ewan McGregor has earned so much attention for his work in three “Star Wars” films, it is almost a disappointment when he walk into the ballroom at the Beverly Hilton. Yes, he is here to...

 

Deception

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Apr.08] :. Deception is less a thriller than it is a contest between boys with big egos, assorted women dropped in as pseudo-exotic objects of exchange.

 

Scottish actor Ewan McGregor is in big demand

by Joseph V. Amodio [Newsday (MCT)]

[31.Jan.08] :. Ewan McGregor’s been busy. He’s got a handful of films coming out, starting with Woody Allen’s latest, “Cassandra’s Dream,” starring McGregor and Colin Farrell as...

 

Cassandra’s Dream

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Jan.08] :. The first few minutes of Woody Allen's Cassandra's Dream are not bad.

 

Colin Farrell plays against type in new Woody Allen movie

by Roger Moore [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)]

[14.Jan.08] :. For an actor of just 31, Colin Farrell has squeezed an awful lot of “bad boy” into his brief career. Two-fisted movie roles in films such as “Intermission,”...

 

Miss Potter (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Jan.07] :. Chris Noonan's next-film-after-Babe doesn't engage this alternative realm except as whimsy. Beatrix is eccentric. Her "friends" are cute.

 

Valiant (2005)

by Roger Holland

[26.Aug.05] :. Though Valiant is cheerful enough, its actors, animators, and audience have all been let down by its lack of ambition.

 

The Island (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Jul.05] :. Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson run around in an efficiently digitized near-future scary-scape, occasionally propelled by ethical questions about cloning.

 

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.May.05] :. For all its lavish effects, Sith's primary purpose is to showcase Anakin's dilemma.

 

Robots (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Mar.05] :. Valiant and righteous, the old-fashioned robots fight back against the slick, wealthy, huge machine.

 

Young Adam (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Sep.04] :. 'Joe's abandonment is like a political act and a political philosophy, he's a libertine and a libertarian,' says Tilda Swinton.

 

Black Hawk Down: Superbit (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Jun.04] :. Black Hawk Down illustrates well the absurdity and chaos of urban warfare: there's no ground to be won, no victory to be claimed.

 

Big Fish (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Apr.04] :. Edward's persistent self-inflation frustrates Will, just as its contradictions appeal to Burton.

 

Young Adam (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Apr.04] :. Joe's trajectory through post-war Glasgow and Edinburgh takes on a sort of dread inevitability.

 

Big Fish (2003)

by Jesse Hassenger

[8.Jan.04] :. Edward is less obviously an outsider than Burton's other Edwards (Scissorhands and Wood), but equally filled with a winning sense of wonder.

 

Down With Love (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Oct.03] :. He's mixing drinks in his bachelor pad, equipped with, as director Peyton Reed calls it, a 'really bitchin' television set.'"

 

Down With Love (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.May.03] :. At its best, Down With Love celebrates this fictional elegance with a corresponding airiness.

 

Black Hawk Down (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Jun.02] :. An action movie dressed up like an art film, 'Black Hawk Down' is not about betrayal or anger, but heroism and patriotic fervor.

 

Star Wars: Episode II—Attack of the Clones (2002)

by Tara Taghizadeh

[24.May.02] :. So in a post-September 11th world replete with conflicts from Afghanistan to continuous Palestinian-Israeli disputes, the lines between good and evil often seem blurry, and the cut-and-dry antics of galactic warriors instill a sense of hope, a realization of what morality should be. Who would've thought that the likes of Yoda, Obi Wan Kenobi and Chewbacca would serve as heroes for a celluloid generation whose sense of a world order would become crystal clear as a result of a few fictional characters?"

 

Star Wars: Episode II—Attack of the Clones (2002)

by Todd R. Ramlow

[15.May.02] :. There are so very many characters playing central roles in the second half of the series, and accounting for all of their geneses is tricky indeed.

 

Moulin Rouge (2001)

by Todd R. Ramlow

I imagine that at the 'real' Moulin Rouge, the thrill wasn't just a bit of nipple and a flash of panties, but the whole entertainment package, which no doubt included exuberant 'daring' new music intended to shock and titillate the sensitivity of the bourgeoisie -- kind of like rock-and-roll or punk in our times.

 

Moulin Rouge (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

She's the perfect drag queen, embodying the ruthless paradox of entertainment. She is the show that must go on and cannot.

 

Eye of the Beholder (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Wigs. Ideally, they can change everything: your appearance, your self-image, your imagined possibilities, your identity. In the movies, wigs can also effect change, but at the same time, they carry moral meanings, they can suggest artifice and disguise, dashed dreams and pathologies.

 

Black Hawk Down (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

An action movie dressed up like an art film, 'Black Hawk Down' is not about betrayal or anger, but heroism and patriotic fervor.