Articles tagged "hugo weaving"

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

 

PopMatters Picks: The 50 DVDs Every Film Fan Should Own Feature

Part 5: The Return of the Auteur

by PopMatters Staff

[22.Jun.07] :. That noise you heard near the start of the new millennium was the creative din of a brash new breed of filmmakers tearing down the traditions of mainstream moviemaking. Their motion picture mission statements -- including the ones featured on this list -- remain the rulebook for new generations of anxious film artists.

PopMatters Picks: The 50 DVDs Every Film Fan Should Own

 

DVDs Feature

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.

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Future Shock: The Death of Serious Science Fiction

by Bill Gibron

[29.May.07] :. The serious Science Fiction film genre is dead or at least on cinematic life support. As the new millennial marches forward, and an omnipresent production paradigm that substitutes spectacle for smarts, futurist filmmaking is definitely gasping for breath.

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Film Review

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.

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Film DVD Review

V for Vendetta (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.Aug.06] :. "He's a pretty complex man," says Hugo Weaving of V. "He's been imprisoned and tortured and abused mentally and physically... and then burnt in fire."

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V for Vendetta (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Mar.06] :. The Natalie Portman film is an earnestly angry, vaguely philosophical, but ultimately generic action movie.

 

Little Fish (2005)

by Nikki Tranter

[28.Feb.06] :. Jacquelin Perske's script delivers Tracy's story in a series of snapshots, brief, highly detailed moments, comprised of close-ups or bits of dialogue.

 

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Dec.03] :. No in-betweeners in this reductive view of the world: characters and choices are good or evil.

 

Matrix Revolutions (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Nov.03] :. 'Why, Mr. Anderson?'asks Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving), for what seems the umpteenth time.

 

The Matrix Reloaded (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.May.03] :. Morpheus is a stanch warrior and provocative thinker, as well as a black man in a world where the machines' agents tend to be white men in suits.

 

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Dec.02] :. It's useful to remember that, offscreen, both good and bad tend to be tricksy.

 

Russian Doll (2001)

by Rachel Hyland

'Russian Doll' is above all an enjoyably quirky romantic comedy, and a pleasant way to spend a little vicarious time in a foreign milieu.