Articles tagged "ian mckellan"![]() Film DVD ReviewNeverwasby Jake Meaney[29.Aug.07] :. How did a first time writer/ director manage to nab even one of these big guns, let alone a whole gaggle of them? Would that Neverwas never were… ![]() PopMatters Picks: The 50 DVDs Every Film Fan Should Own FeaturePart 5: The Return of the Auteurby 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 ![]() Film DVD ReviewThe Da Vinci Code (2006)by Marc Acherman[12.Nov.06] :. If religion, to paraphrase Oscar Wilde, is the fashionable substitute for belief, then The Da Vinci Code, judging by author Dan Brown’s quasi religious following, has asserted itself as the fashionable substitute for religion ![]() Film ReviewThe Da Vinci Codeby Cynthia Fuchs[19.May.06] :. In straining to make its spaces and secrets 'scary', Da Vinci literalizes thoughts and dreams, and abandons mystery and nuance. ![]() Film ReviewThe 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. ![]() Film DVD ReviewX2: 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. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)by Todd R. Ramlow[18.Dec.01] :. What is potentially most urgent about 'The Fellowship of the Ring' is how it reflects the tenor of our time. X-Men (2000)by Sabadino ParkerBeware 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... |
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