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Articles tagged "jared leto"![]() Film ReviewChapter 27by Cynthia Fuchs[27.Mar.08] :. The unsurprising punchline for Chapter 27 is that Mark David Chapman can't know what he's become. PopMatters Pick![]() DVD TV ReviewMy So-Called Life: The Complete Seriesby Kate Williams[9.Nov.07] :. Unrequited love, the all consuming crush, the exasperated horror of hormonal changes, the tedium of school, trouble with parents, the emergence of individual identity . . . the adolescent struggle and all of its attendant rites, rituals, and humiliations are ever present in the storytelling of My So-Called Life. ![]() Film ReviewLord of War (2005)by Cynthia Fuchs[16.Sep.05] :. As Yuri plainly gets off on risk, he's also broadly representative of cavalier attitudes toward risk concerning vulnerable individuals and communities. ![]() DVD Film ReviewAlexander: Director’s Cut (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[10.Aug.05] :. Oliver Stone calls his Alexander 'a new genre, a masculine-feminine action figure,' more like Monty Clift and James Dean than Russell Crowe. ![]() Film ReviewAlexander (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[24.Nov.04] :. Though Olympias is unbeatably charismatic (and plain fun amid all the drearily inclined boys), the film takes a typically Stonian approach to the evil woman. ![]() DVD Film ReviewPanic Room (2002)by Cynthia Fuchs[12.Sep.02] :. This 'Panic Room' DVD leaves you to figure the moves and angles. American Psycho (2000)by Todd R. RamlowWARNING: The following review contains spoilers. Confessions of a Serial Killer Much like Bret Easton Ellis’s 1991 novel of the same name, writer-director Mary Harron’s... Fight Club (1999)by Jonathan Beller and Rhonda BaughmanDoes capitalism have you by the balls? If you're feeling a little limp lately, a little flaccid, emasculated, or impotent, then David Fincher's Fight Club may just have your number. This film kicks butt, and in doing so it also manages to suggest that your need for it and for other butt-kicking films is a late capitalist symptom of contemporary psychosis. Girl, Interrupted (1999)by Cynthia FuchsWhat is it that makes girls in trouble so interesting? Think about all the novels, memoirs, biographies, songs, movies of the week, TV shows, and movies that have investigated, spectacularized, and... Requiem for a Dream (2000)by Cynthia FuchsRequiem for a Dream begins with a crime in progress. Harry (Jared Leto) is taking his mom’s tv set in order to sell it for drug money. It so happens that Mom—Sara (Ellen... |
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