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Articles tagged "jennifer connelly" Short Ends and LeaderHulk: Revisitedby Bill Gibron[9.Jun.08] :. In preparation for the franchise reboot starring Edward Norton, SE&L looks back at Ang Lee's 2003 version of the Big Green Meanie, a criminally marginalized movie that truly didn't deserve the critical or commercial drubbing it took at the time.  Film ReviewReservation Roadby Cynthia Fuchs[25.Oct.07] :. Men have a hard time with feelings. This appears to be the major revelation in Reservation Road, a melodrama in which men suffer loss, grief, and guilt.  Film DVD ReviewLittle Children (2006)by Matt Mazur[2.May.07] :. Director Todd Field's eye for the minutiae of the everyday is impeccable.  Film DVD ReviewDark Water: Unrated Widescreen Edition (2005)by Cynthia Fuchs[5.Jan.06] :. 'I'm attracted by the unknown, by the unexplainable,' says director Walter Salles.  Film ReviewDark Water (2005)by Cynthia Fuchs[8.Jul.05] :. The more anxious Dahlia becomes, the more the dark, soppy, unruly apartment resembles her state of mind.  Film DVD ReviewMulholland Falls (1996)by Kevin Jagernauth[8.Nov.04] :. Mulholland Falls resembles an episode of Law & Order with funny hats. Labyrinth (1986)by Jennifer D. Wesley[1.Mar.04] :. Sarah is the origin and end of the fiction, its cause and effect simultaneously. PopMatters Pick Film ReviewHouse of Sand and Fog (2003)by Cynthia Fuchs[18.Dec.03] :. Property is at the center of House of Sand and Fog. The Hulk (2003)by Todd R. Ramlow[19.Jun.03] :. In Hulk, the comic books' critique of institutional authority and the way U.S. culture perceives and deals with difference is evacuated. A Beautiful Mind (2001)by Lesley SmithA Beautiful Mind idealizes mental illness as spectacle, a feel-good gladiatorial games of the psyche where the human spirits always triumphs and love always blooms. 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... Waking the Dead (2000)by P. Nelson ReinschThough some viewers might not compare producer-director Keith Gordon to John Huston as adaptors of literature to film, Gordon makes films which are regularly praised for their 'faithful' transfer of literary texts. Waking the Dead (2000)by Cynthia FuchsWaking the Dead opens with a television image. In 1974, young Fielding Pierce (Billy Crudup) is watching the news, when he sees that his girlfriend Sarah (Jennifer Connelly) has been killed in a car bomb explosion (reportedly engineered by 'terrorists,' that all-purpose contemporary cultural monster). |
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