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The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency

by Cynthia Fuchs

[29.Mar.09] :. In The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Precious (Jill Scott) is often complicated, sometimes subtle, and determinedly independent -- a few steps ahead of her series.

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PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008 Feature

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!

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008

 

Film Review

RocknRolla

by Cynthia Fuchs

[31.Oct.08] :. Violence is the primary form of communication among all the film's macho posturers.

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Short Ends and Leader

‘Rocknrolla’ Marks Ritchie’s Return

by Bill Gibron

[30.Oct.08] :. It’s been easy to dismiss Guy Ritchie as of late. The soon to be former Mr. Madonna has done little outside the limelight to distinguish himself, and the career choices he’s made since...

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Fast chat with ‘Rocknrolla’ director Guy Ritchie

by John Anderson [Newsday (MCT)]

[8.Oct.08] :. TORONTO—Probably better known as Madonna’s husband than as a director of high-style, high-attitude, comic-book-type thrillers (“Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels”), Guy...

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The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview Feature

Talk, Talk, Talk: October 2008

by Bill Gibron

[10.Sep.08] :. What studio suit thought this was a good idea? With four months to schedule your high priced efforts, you instead unload almost 30 overpriced pictures on an unsuspecting movie audience.

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This Christmas

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Nov.07] :. A typical domestic dramedy, This Christmas offers one exceptional moment: Chris Brown performing "Try a Little Tenderness."

 

American Gangster

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.Nov.07] :. As much as American Gangster loves Frank's intelligence and charisma, it must also condemn his criminality.

 

28 Weeks Later (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.May.07] :. The moral universe is intractably skewed in 28 Weeks Later, a film that works hard to reflect the world around it.

 

The Reaping (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Apr.07] :. Ben more or less embodies The Reaping's pretended argument between Christian belief and skepticism.

 

Tyler Perrys Daddys Little Girls (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Feb.07] :. A disappointingly outsized villain, Jenny fills up what would have been Madea's space, only she's not so strong, entertaining, or even convincing.

 

The Gospel (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Oct.05] :. Frank's ambition to expand the church, following the spectacular-show/mega-church model, has led him to think rather highly of himself as well.