Articles tagged "frances fisher"![]() NewsIraq War-themed films can’t find an audienceby Soren Andersen [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][2.Jan.08] :. What if they made a war movie and nobody came to see it? No biggie. Individual films fail all the time for all kinds of reasons. Filmmaking is a crapshoot. Always has been. Always will be. The... ![]() NewsA new script for Hollywood war moviesby Carrie Rickey [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)][11.Oct.07] :. Anti-war demonstrators storm the Pentagon in the movie “Across the Universe.” A career soldier protests the Iraq conflict in “In the Valley of Elah.” The tactics of an elite... ![]() NewsHollywood goes to war: Mainstream movies focus on Iraq, terrorismby Cary Darling [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][1.Oct.07] :. Writer Matthew Michael Carnahan makes a living pounding out movie scripts, where flights of fantasy and retreats from reality are the daily stock in trade. But a couple of autumns back, while... ![]() NewsTight-lipped Tommy Lee Jones on ‘In the Valley of Elah’by Howard Gensler [Philadelphia Daily News (MCT)][21.Sep.07] :. TORONTO—Oscar-winning actor Tommy Lee Jones, likely to be nominated again for one or both of his fall movies, “In the Valley of Elah” (opening Friday) and “No Country for Old... ![]() Film ReviewIn the Valley of Elahby Cynthia Fuchs[20.Sep.07] :. Paul Haggis' film posits Hank as an old-school man of honor, both punished and revered for his traditional "values." ![]() Film DVD ReviewThe Laws of Attraction (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[23.Aug.04] :. All this back-and-forth is tedious, in part because it means that Audrey and Daniel spend a lot of time together. The Laws of Attraction (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[29.Apr.04] :. Daniel inhabits a universe where his judgments, his desires, and his insights (no matter how obnoxious, self-serving, or willfully blind) are always right. PopMatters Pick![]() Film ReviewHouse of Sand and Fog (2003)by Cynthia Fuchs[18.Dec.03] :. Property is at the center of House of Sand and Fog. Lyon’s Denby Chris Elliot[6.Oct.03] :. Trades on the image of D.C. as a shadow-realm, characterized by backroom dealings and shifting loyalties. Blue Car (2003)by Cynthia Fuchs[6.Jun.03] :. High schooler Meg (Agnes Bruckner) has good reasons to be angry. The Big Tease (2000)by Tobias PetersonU.S. film audiences know Scotland as the damp, cold, and hilly home of blue-faced barbarians (Braveheart) and heroin-addled twentysomethings (Trainspotting). The Big Tease would... |
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