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Articles tagged "jamie foxx"NewsActor/comedian/radio host/singer Jamie Foxx has hit the concert trailby Jon Bream [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)][22.Jul.09] :. MINNEAPOLIS — Jamie Foxx phoned promptly at 6 a.m. his time. That’s not a typo. “I’ve been up about an hour,” he said from Los Angeles. “But I went to sleep at,...  NewsMovie version of reporter’s story twists the facts, but in this case, he’s OK with itby Steven Rea [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)][27.Apr.09] :. So there’s Jamie Foxx, in ragtag yellow and magenta, standing on a Los Angeles sidewalk, talking to Robert Downey Jr. The scene cuts up and away from the actors to a glimpse of blue, to a...  Film ReviewThe Soloistby Cynthia Fuchs[24.Apr.09] :. The Soloist illustrates Nathaniel's internal life -- his music and his madness -- in reductive, sensational imagery.  Short Ends and Leader‘Soloist’ Suffers from a Lack of Honestyby Bill Gibron[24.Apr.09] :. Not every true story makes for good cinema. Sometimes, an intriguing idea is just that - a decent concept that can’t take the transition from fact to big screen “fiction”. From the... NewsJamie Foxx goes for gold every timeby Roger Moore [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)][24.Apr.09] :. Is there a figure in show business today with more breathtaking ambition than Jamie Foxx? A chart-topping pop star at 41, a “brand name” comedy talent with his own Sirius Satellite Radio...  The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview FeatureTalk, Talk, Talk: November 2008by Bill Gibron[11.Sep.08] :. Like the sainted sigh of relief that comes after another shriek-filled All Hallow's Eve, November usually means the start of the 'nominate me' process for the proposed prestige pictures of 2008. The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview Today’s foreign wars are Hollywood hellby Lewis Beale [Newsday (MCT)][9.Nov.07] :. This is not your grandfather’s war. This war is unpopular and controversial, seemingly endless. But that hasn’t stopped Hollywood from releasing a series of films about Iraq and its evil... A new script for Hollywood war moviesby Carrie Rickey [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)][11.Oct.07] :. Anti-war demonstrators storm the Pentagon in the movie “Across the Universe.” A career soldier protests the Iraq conflict in “In the Valley of Elah.” The tactics of an elite... Hollywood goes to war: Mainstream movies focus on Iraq, terrorismby Cary Darling [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][1.Oct.07] :. Writer Matthew Michael Carnahan makes a living pounding out movie scripts, where flights of fantasy and retreats from reality are the daily stock in trade. But a couple of autumns back, while... The Kingdomby Cynthia Fuchs[28.Sep.07] :. Boasting charismatic stars and a topical focus on terrorism, the film adds one more cagey detail -- a hint of moral challenge to its own thrills-and-chills violence. agoDreamgirls (2006)by Iquo B. Essien[10.May.07] :. An undeniably fun ride, albeit with too much restraint here, too over-the-top there. Jamie Foxx’s fun persona belies an earnest manby Evelyn McDonnell [McClatchy Newspapers][1.Feb.07] :. MIAMI—Jamie Foxx is known as an Oscar-winning, hit-making party animal with an ego as big as his accomplishments and lust for life. Singing “Gold Digger” with Kanye West at the MTV... Dreamgirls (2006)by Cynthia Fuchs[15.Dec.06] :. The decidedly uneven score embraces the music of its moment, from soul to Motown to pop to disco, all filtered through Broadway, which means it's all too watery and white. Snoop Dogg: Tha Blue Carpet Treatmentby Mike Schiller[4.Dec.06] :. Snoop Dogg invites a bunch of friends to the studio, records a small army of songs, accomplishes not much of anything. Miami Vice (2006)by Cynthia Fuchs[28.Jul.06] :. Gong Li's face and form are made for this: she absorbs the movie's energies and just like that, it hardly matters what Crockett or Tubbs thinks he's doing. Stealth (2005)by Cynthia Fuchs[29.Jul.05] :. Kara's a lovely, leggy, perfectly made-up figure whose primary purpose is to provide moral framing for the boys' brilliant strikes and calculations. Ray (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[29.Oct.04] :. Repeatedly, Ray collapses lore and desire into metaphorical, emotional, and narrative economy, occasioned by a groundbreaking song. Breakin’ All the Rules: Special Edition (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[27.Oct.04] :. All rules of attraction and self-definition are just off when it comes to the utterly beautiful and notoriously nice Chestnut. Collateral (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[5.Aug.04] :. Michael Mann's new film shows what anyone who's paid attention to Jamie Foxx has known for some time: he is excellent. Ali: The Director’s Cut (2001)by Cynthia Fuchs[7.Jun.04] :. The bravest thing Ali does is to gesture toward, wonder at, and celebrate Muhammad Ali, and then let go of him. Breakin’ All the Rules (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[13.May.04] :. As lovers who lie to one another as a kind of mating ritual, Gabrielle Union and Jamie Foxx do about as well as possible. Ali (2001)by Cynthia Fuchs[24.Dec.01] :. Ali embodies a kind of car-wreck charisma -- arrogant and self-conscious, beautiful and fierce, even on twenty-year-old tape, he can take your breath away. This ability to mesmerize makes Ali who he is, or more accurately, who everyone wants him to be. He's a cipher and a screen onto which viewers might project themselves. Bait (2000)by Cynthia FuchsThe film's most effective balancing act comes in the form of Foxx's terrific performance: throughout, he's quirky, subtle, and thankfully able to keep up with the movie's lurching tone-and-genre shifts, from comedy to action to almost-arty to melodrama. Any Given Sunday (1999)by Cynthia FuchsOliver Stone's movies usually seem more complicated than they are. Partly this comes from his evolving style, from the curiously romantic realism of Platoon, to the assaultive ding-battiness of Natural Born Killers, to the debased lunacy of U-Turn. But mostly it comes from his obsession with a single theme: brutality. Or more precisely, how brutality becomes morality. Any Given Sunday (1999)by Tobias PetersonWhatever you think about Oliver Stone as a director, you can't deny his firm grasp on this country's interests. From Vietnam to JFK to serial killers, Stone's pictures have always depicted major subjects of national fascination. With his latest release, Any Given Sunday, Stone looks to go his previous films one better by focusing on the most popular sport in America. |
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