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Articles tagged "forest whitaker" Film ReviewStreet Kingsby Cynthia Fuchs[11.Apr.08] :. In Street Kings, Tom (Keanu Reeves) is puffy and surly, Neo if he hadn't met Trinity, Neo unsaved.  Film ReviewVantage Pointby Cynthia Fuchs[22.Feb.08] :. As Vantage Point becomes increasingly busy with personal betrayals and redemptions, the ostensible politics, reductive to begin with, fall by the wayside.  Film ReviewThe Great Debatersby Cynthia Fuchs[27.Dec.07] :. The Great Debaters is history by way of Oprah: righteously angry and uplifting, willing to pull a punch when it makes the broader point.  DVD Film ReviewThe Marsh (2006)by Matthew A. Stern[26.Apr.07] :. A film that begins with a dream sequence, and ends up like a nightmare that, thankfully, you forget right after you wake up.  DVD Film ReviewThe Last King of Scotland (2006)by Emma Simmonds[20.Apr.07] :. Based on Giles Foden’s novel of the same name this bold, visceral cinematic-bodyblow takes a political maelstrom and a maniacal dictator and squeezes them into the mould of a genre-picture. First Daughter (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[17.Jan.05] :. This is the film's premise, that Sam's existence is simultaneously ideal and outrageous, typical and desirable. First Daughter (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[23.Sep.04] :. These 'times' are somehow exponentially more dangerous, but no one refers to 9/11 or the Bush administration, apparently erased in this alternate non-reality. Phone Booth (2002)by Cynthia Fuchs[14.Jul.03] :. We're surrounded by spin all the time and I think that many times people who spin for a living really don't know the truth anymore because, I guess, they have to believe so much in the spin that they are spinning. Phone Booth (2002)by Cynthia Fuchs[3.Apr.03] :. A function of increasing anxieties about security, surveillance technology, and loss of privacy, this sniper is symptomatic. The Twilight Zoneby Bernadette Adams Davis[30.Sep.02] :. The most recent tales from the Zone suggest it can again become a venue for investigating contemporary cultural and moral dilemmas. Panic Room (2002)by Cynthia Fuchs[12.Sep.02] :. This 'Panic Room' DVD leaves you to figure the moves and angles. Battlefield Earth (2000)by Cynthia FuchsAs one of four producers for the film, Travolta helped to secure the $100 million independent financing, most of which seems to have gone into the Psychlos' elaborate dreadlocked wigs and the enormous platform boots that make the big meanies look eight feet tall and terribly slow on their feet. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (2000)by Cynthia FuchsJim Jarmusch’s new feature, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, is much like other Jim Jarmusch films: the pace is slightly slow, the characters slightly alien and alienated, the dialogue... Light It Up (1999)by Cynthia FuchsIn the case of Light It Up, crossing-over occurs on several levels, not the least significant being the use of a famously hard rapper like Ja Rule to pitch a movie that argues against kids being hard. The slip-the-yoke-and-change-the-joke crossing over here comes in the soundtrack's brilliant marketing moves of the soundtrack crossover. |
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