Articles tagged "hugh jackman"

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‘Wolverine,’ ‘Van Helsing’ top newest Blu-ray releases

by Doug Nye [McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)]

[15.Sep.09] :. A pair of movies starring Hugh Jackman — the superhero saga “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” (20th Century Fox, 2009, $39.99) and the horror fantasy “Van Helsing” (Universal,...

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X-Men Origins: Wolverine

by Todd R. Ramlow

[1.May.09] :. Scary as Hugh Jackman's vascular body may be, it's also perfectly appropriate as a visual extension of the weaponization of Wolverine.

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No joke: Lynn Collins’ role was vital to ‘Wolverine’ story

by Rick Bentley [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[1.May.09] :. LOS ANGELES — Lynn Collins had little time to think once she was cast as Kayla Silverfox, the love interest in the new summer action film “X-Men Origins: Wolverine.” “When I...

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Hugh Jackman and Liev Schreiber are a dynamic duo in ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine’

by Rick Bentley [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[29.Apr.09] :. LOS ANGELES - Liev Schreiber knew he was going to have to be at his best to stay in step with Hugh Jackman while making “X-Men Origins: Wolverine.” And not just as an actor. Both men went...

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Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine is all the rage in ‘X-Men Origins’

by Frank Lovece [Newsday (MCT)]

[27.Apr.09] :. He may come from the Great White North, but the Marvel Comics character Wolverine isn’t what you’d call “way Canadian.” The national character of Canada, after all, includes a...

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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

The Leak: “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” Unleashed

by Bill Gibron

[2.Apr.09] :. If it wasn’t for the date, many would have considered it a joke. Then Ain’t It Cool News stepped up and warned readers that they would not be accepting any reviews of it. Soon, the...

Australia

by Jesse Hassenger

[12.Mar.09] :. As far as films go, this one's rather like a fleeting romance that wants to be a torrid affair.

OMG - The 20 Worst Films of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[15.Jan.09] :. There's bad, and then there's 2008 level bad. You know this list is looking down into a deep dark bottomless pit of cinematic despair when Mike Myers' shameful Love Guru didn't even make the Top 20!

Hugh Jackman to host next Oscar ceremony

by Russ BrittMarketWatch [MarketWatch (MCT)]

[15.Dec.08] :. LOS ANGELES - Departing from tradition, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Friday that Australian actor Hugh Jackman will host next year’s Oscar telecast. The selection...

Hugh Jackman brings epic sexiness to film epic ‘Australia’

by David Hiltbrand [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[26.Nov.08] :. “Australia,” the audacious epic from visionary director Baz Luhrmann, is being hailed as the Pacific “Gone With the Wind.” The movie’s scintillating star, Hugh Jackman,...

Australia

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Nov.08] :. Australia is both an epic and a post-epic epic: it understands what's at stake in such spectacle-making and wants to show you that it knows.

Australia

by Bill Gibron

[26.Nov.08] :. He’s been making movies since 1992. Yet in 16 years, he’s completed only four projects - 1992’s Strictly Ballroom, 1996’s William Shakespeare’s Romeo +...

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.

Talk, Talk, Talk: November 2008

by Bill Gibron

[11.Sep.08] :. Like the sainted sigh of relief that comes after another shriek-filled All Hallow's Eve, November usually means the start of the 'nominate me' process for the proposed prestige pictures of 2008.

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.

Kids’ DVDs: June 2007

by Roger Holland

[6.Jun.07] :. Given that babies and young children love nothing more than repetition, repetition, and... um.... repetition, I can't understand why even the pointiest of heads would think children between the ages of six months and three years could possible need 23 different Baby Einstein DVDs.

The Prestige (2006)

by Jesse Hassenger

[15.Mar.07] :. Fans of this wonderful film are left to puzzle not just over its thematic and narrative layers, but its respectable but perfunctory treatment here.

The Pay Off: The Best Film of 2006

by PopMatters Staff

[11.Jan.07] :. For many of the movies on PopMatters' 2006 list of the year's best films, it is clear that a heavy personal and professional stake was riding on the final product.

The Fountain (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Nov.06] :. Izzi is both Tommy's end and his means, and so, at last, not quite herself.

Happy Feet (2006)

by Mike Ward

[21.Nov.06] :. The penguins learn to refine their engrained vocal skills not in the interest of spiritual uplift or any such, but, basically, to get laid.

Flushed Away (2006)

by Daynah Burnett

[8.Nov.06] :. Droll and unfortunately titled, Flushed Away marks a point of no return for British animated films.

Scoop (2006)

by Kevin Wong

[28.Jul.06] :. Allen once channeled Bergman in Interiors and Fellini in Stardust Memories, but in Scoop, he commits a more self-indulgent crime, paying tribute to his own works.

Scoop (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Jul.06] :. If Scoop has a theme, submerged beneath its poor plotting, clumsy editing, and reductive characterizations, deception might be it.

X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.May.06] :. It's a superhero movie, so all these choices involve massive destruction -- buildings disintegrating, fireballs flying, bodies detonating.

Van Helsing (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.May.04] :. Van Helsing is full of monsters -- monster lore, monster jokes, and monster trivia.

X2: X-Men United (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[1.Dec.03] :. At once all powerful and utterly powerless, this involuntary terrorist is the first mutant you meet in X2.

X2: X-Men United (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[1.May.03] :. At once all powerful and utterly powerless, this involuntary terrorist is the first mutant you meet in X2.

Kate & Leopold (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Dec.01] :. Never mind that Leopold is clueless when it comes to actual labor or the concept of class; as long as he's upper, he has no need to know anything more.

X-Men (2000)

by Sabadino Parker

Beware the genesis of a new movie franchise, namely, X-Men, adapted from the best-selling comic book series of all time. Comics aficionados have been awaiting the film since the 1980s, when...

Swordfish (2001)

by Todd R. Ramlow

What is most distressing about 'Swordfish' is John Travolta. More and more, Travolta is becoming a caricature of himself as action anti/hero.

Someone Like You (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Instead, 'Someone Like You' follows formula, which means that Jane will realize her folly and realize that Eddie is really the guy for her (this is telegraphed when the pretty couple shares their feelings and eats Chinese food while seated on the kitchen counter and dressed in their fashionable underwear).

Swordfish (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Intrigue, deception, display, betrayal. All this is what it is, typical action flick sex-play, foreplay for the big explosion or something equally prosaic.

Someone Like You (2001)

by Mike Ward

'Someone Like You''s press kit describes Eddie and Jane as a 'Hepburn and Tracy of the modern era', but its undercurrent of painful loss and compulsive grief avoidance is precisely missing from movies like 'Desk Set' and 'Adam's Rib'.