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Articles tagged "james cromwell" Film DVD ReviewThe 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.  Film DVD ReviewThe 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.  TV ReviewSix Feet Underby 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.  Film ReviewThe 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.  Film DVD ReviewI, 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.  Film DVD ReviewDeep 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. The Green Mile (1999)by Mark ReiterIt'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). The General’s Daughter (1999)by Cynthia FuchsThe 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 Cynthia Fuchsound 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... Space Cowboys (2000)by Paul VarnerClint 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... Snow Falling on Cedars (1999)by Renee Scolaro RathkeSnow 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 Cynthia FuchsThe 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... Citizen Bainesby Lesley Smith'Citizen Baines' symbolizes the lack of imagination driving so much of prime-time. |
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