Articles tagged "jeff bridges"

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Dear Marvel Comics

by Bill Gibron

[16.Jun.08] :. Dear Marvel Comics: Get ready. If rumors are true, and you are indeed lowballing Jon Favreau out of participation in Iron Man 2 (a story now supported by both Ain’t It Cool News and...

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Film Review

Iron Man

by Cynthia Fuchs

[1.May.08] :. For all Tony's new understanding of "peace," the fact that Iron Man is in fact a weapon allows the film to do what summer movies must do: clanking and bashing, zooming, shooting, and exploding.

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Film DVD Review

The Amateurs

by Jessica Suarez

[5.Mar.08] :. This film has a great deal of potential, but like many of the characterizations, it's not fully realized.

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Years after ‘Lebowski’, The Dude abides

by Rick Press [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[3.Jan.08] :. “Sometimes there’s a man . . . I won’t say a hero, `cause what’s a hero? . . . He’s the man for his time and place.” That man is Jeffrey Leon...

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Film Review

Surfs Up (2007)

by Daynah Burnett

[8.Jun.07] :. Surf's Up offers nuanced and energetic penguins, as well as top-notch CGI.

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Film Review

The Door in the Floor (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Jul.04] :. Mimi Rogers plays a John Irving trademark, the self-hating and much humiliated woman as wholly irritating 'comic' device.

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Seabiscuit (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Jul.03] :. Engaging viewers emotionally, in a way that the rest of the summer's car chases and explosions can't even imagine doing, the racing scenes create an exhilarating rhythm for Seabiscuit's story.

The Contender (2000)

by Nitin Govil

Some 35 minutes into his Grand Jury testimony of August 1998 (yes, it has been two years), Bill Clinton complains bitterly about the media tactics of Paula Jones’ attorneys and remarks:...

Cutter’s Way (1981/2001)

by David Sanjek

Passer expertly laces this compelling character study with all the intrigue and narrative complications familiar from classic 'film noir' of the 1940s and '50s.

K-PAX (2001)

by Todd R. Ramlow

K-PAX trots out all the old cliches about humanity's barbarism, intolerance, and generalicky-ness. Yeah, we know, we're all a bunch of spoiled brats.