Articles tagged "geoffrey rush"

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Geoffrey Rush gets his Rove on for ‘Elizabeth’ sequel

by Stephen Becker [The Dallas Morning News (MCT)]

[12.Oct.07] :. TORONTO—Geoffrey Rush knows how to close the deal. It’s a skill he may have learned from playing Sir Francis Walsingham, the Karl Rove-like consigliere who serves as the monarch’s...

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Film Review

Elizabeth: The Golden Age

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Oct.07] :. The movie feels more superficial than significant, like it's stuck behind a pane of glass.

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Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.May.07] :. In the just-in-time for Memorial Day weekend Pirates sequel, Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) pursues pleasure with the sort of determination usually associated with moviegoers.

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Munich (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Dec.05] :. Munich is about the shifting meaning the city's name took on after that dire moment in 1972, the shorthand it became for survivors, historians, and avengers.

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Ned Kelly (2003)

by Daniel Mudie Cunningham

[7.Jun.04] :. Ned might have been a criminal in the eyes of the law, but to working class Australians he was a hero wrongly accused.

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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Dec.03] :. Johnny Depp spent time learning to swordfight, so that Captain Jack Sparrow could be poised and everready -- in a word, the Muhammad Ali of swordfighters.

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Intolerable Cruelty (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Oct.03] :. The Coen brothers' latest venture is a rat-a-tat romantic comedy of the Preston Sturges persuasion, at least for its first hour or so.

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Jul.03] :. Ingenious and mesmerizing, Johnny Depp embodies the film's essential fantasy, that a pirate's life is exciting and unfettered.

Frida (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[31.Oct.02] :. Julie Taymor's Frida pulses with color.

The Banger Sisters (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Sep.02] :. For these few minutes, The Banger Sisters venerates imperfection and adventure.

Lantana (2001)

by Nikki Tranter

Proves that local storytellers no longer need loveable anti-heroes and a supporting cast of offbeat simpletons to get noticed.

Quills (2000)

by Tobias Peterson

If we believe all that Philip Kaufman's 'Quills' has to tell us about the man, Sade is much more than a randy aristocrat -- he is a champion of free speech and artistic integrity.