Articles tagged "james cromwell"

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999 Feature

Part 5: Toy Story 2 to Titus (November - December 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[27.Mar.09] :. On this final day of PopMatters' 1999 overview, awards season hype gives way to pure acting prowess and definitive directorial flair.

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

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

The New Classics - The 30 Best Films of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[16.Jan.09] :. Unlike previous years, where classics came crawling out of the celluloid woodwork with regular reckless abandon, 2008 was more calm… and considered. That's not to say that choosing 30 top titles was hard. The difficulty in placing them in some manner of rank order suggests the actual depth of quality involved.

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

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

Iconic - The Top 20 Male Performances of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[14.Jan.09] :. Like the gladiators of old, 2008 resembles a battle of formidable acting gods, especially when looking over the 20 choices presented below. Indeed, if anything, choosing a winner requires more of a leap of faith than any amount of critical skill - they all were that good.

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

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

Tough and Tender - The Top 20 Female Performances of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[14.Jan.09] :. Twenty talented ladies, 20 performances worthy of multiple little gold men. Unfortunately, as in all years, someone has to come out on top. But after looking over this impressive list, picking the preeminent turn of 2008 seems almost impossible.

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

Film Feature

The Man Who Wasn’t There: Wrestling with Oliver Stone’s W. and the Enigma of George W. Bush

by Josh Timmermann

[6.Nov.08] :. Stone doesn't "get" Bush’s true historical legacy (any more than the rest of us do in 2008), but he cannily realizes that, warts and all, Bush is an undeniably pivotal figure.

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Audiences turn a deaf ear to preachy Hollywood films

by Rene Rodriguez [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[31.Oct.08] :. Used to be, going to the movies was a way to escape the bustle and stress of the real world for a couple of hours. Lately, the multiplex has become a more tumultuous place. Choose the wrong picture,...

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W.

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Oct.08] :. The readymade caricature George Bush is as much a reflection of his moment as he is an occasion for Oliver Stone's latest stab at revisionist history.

‘W.’ is Brilliant Political Theater

by Bill Gibron

[16.Oct.08] :. How did it happen? How did a man with limited governing skills, a track record of career calamities, a laundry list of personality (and parental) issues, and a jerryrigged jailhouse conversion to...

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.

Pope John Paul II

by Kevin Garcia

[13.Jun.07] :. This film provides insight into John Paul Two's character that no unauthorized biography could have achieved.

The Queen (2006)

by Jake Meaney

[30.Apr.07] :. When acting the part of a living icon, the aim is to achieve "likeness" rather than the "like", to interpret rather than replicate.

Robert Greenwald Presents - The Brave New Films Box Set (2006)

by Shaun Huston

[20.Feb.07] :. Ultimately, if these films do their job, more idle viewers will eventually become the kind of people who will want to do more than wait and watch.

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.

Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price (2005)

by Jesse Hicks

[9.Dec.05] :. As polemic, The High Cost of Low Price succeeds in personalizing the effects of a system that allows the ruthlessness of Wal-Mart.

The Longest Yard: Widescreen Collector’s Edition (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Oct.05] :. Given the prison's largely nonwhite population, Paul's friendship with Caretaker (Chris Rock) is invaluable in assembling the team.

Six Feet Under

by Ryan Vu

[12.Sep.05] :. Six Feet Under's lack of delicacy is easy to mistake for exploitation. Where other shows hint, this one acts out.

The Longest Yard (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.May.05] :. Sandler is resolutely unriled, whether abused by guards, the warden, or his own teammates, which makes him a decidedly peculiar action comedy hero.

I, Robot (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Dec.04] :. 'It's harder and harder to make straight-ahead sci-fi and straight-ahead comic book movies,' says Akiva Goldsman.

Deep Impact: Special Collector’s Edition (1998)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Oct.04] :. Mimi Leder's Deep Impact is both less and more than a science fiction-styled disaster melodrama.

I, Robot (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Jul.04] :. These green-screen jamborees are utterly summer-blockbustery (or maybe just Will-Smithy), but they also tend to substitute for ideas.

The Sum of All Fears (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[30.May.02] :. Tom Clancy's novels and the movies they spawn have never had much truck with credibility.

Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002)

by Tracy McLoone

[23.May.02] :. Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron is about preserving rugged individualism and protecting the homeland.

Citizen Baines

by Lesley Smith

'Citizen Baines' symbolizes the lack of imagination driving so much of prime-time.

Space Cowboys (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

The aging Clint Eastwood may act like a cantankerous old coot, but everyone knows that he’s still the great American Hero, fiercely loyal, exceedingly courageous, and wily like a fox. In his...

Snow Falling on Cedars (1999)

by Renee Scolaro Rathke

Snow falling on cedars. The image is a beautiful one and director Scott Hicks and director of photography Robert Richardson certainly work it in their new film, which offers repeated tableaux of the...

Space Cowboys (2000)

by Paul Varner

Clint Eastwood, I guess, will always see himself as the ultimate icon of masculinity for his generation. The young Eastwood saved the Western film genre in the 1964 with the ultra-hip postmodern...

The Green Mile (1999)

by Cynthia Fuchs

ound dogs baying, wildflowers bending to the wind, angry white men in shirt-sleeves carrying shotguns, a swatch of cloth clinging to a tree branch. The details are all a little too familiar. You know you're looking at yet another recreation of the scary Old American South, specifically, you're looking at the set up for a lynching. This first scene of Frank Darabont's The Green Mile...

The General’s Daughter (1999)

by Cynthia Fuchs

The title character in The General's Daughter is dead. The image gets your attention. It's grotesque and horrifying. And it's recalled several times in the film, verbally and visually, to impress on you the threat that it supposedly poses for military, moral, sexual, and aesthetic orders.

The Green Mile (1999)

by Mark Reiter

It's not news to anyone that Steven King screen adaptations get tossed into two categories: absolute crap (Maximum Overdrive, Cujo, Pet Cemetery, et. al.) and important American cinema (Stanley Kubrick's The Shining and Frank Darabont's previous King adaptation, The Shawshank Redemption).