Articles tagged "jennifer connelly"

Mixed Media

Creation dir. Jon Amiel (trailer)

by Matt Mazur

[12.Jun.09] :. Real-life married couple Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly take on the origin of Charles Darwin and family in what looks to be a boring, only mildly visually-entertaining biography. Academy voters...

Mixed Media

Film Review

He’s Just Not That Into You

by Renee Scolaro Mora

[6.Feb.09] :. He’s Just Not That Into You is a standard chick flick, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing: it’s cute and comic and organized according to fixed, mostly ancient gender roles.

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Short Ends and Leader

Obama & More Critical Commentary on Cultural Imperialism in 2008’s ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still’

by Diepiriye Kuku

[28.Jan.09] :. The Day the Earth Stood Still was rich in contemporary and relevant social criticism despite the regurgitating an apocalypse narrative and re-hashing Keanu Reeves as another prophetic savior.

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Film Review

The Day the Earth Stood Still

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Dec.08] :. On its face, casting Keanu Reeves as Klaatu, that most thoughtful visitor from another planet, seems inspired. Or maybe just obvious.

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Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs Feature

Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs: Part 2

by PopMatters Staff

[14.Oct.08] :. Day Two - A demanding Decalogue overflowing with everything: from fascinating international fare, misbegotten masterworks, some out of the blue bafflers, and that seminal show about “nothing”.

Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs

The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview Feature

Talk, Talk, Talk: December 2008

by Bill Gibron

[12.Sep.08] :. Just like the end of an inspiring speech that may or may not succeed in making its point, these final four weeks before 2009 tend to define or defeat the entire awards season purpose.

The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview

Hulk: Revisited

by 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.

The Return of the Popcorn Circus: August 2008

by Bill Gibron

[1.May.08] :. Talk about a crowded schedule. There are more offerings scheduled this month than in the previous two combined.

Reservation Road

by 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.

Future Shock: The Death of Serious Science Fiction

by Bill Gibron

[29.May.07] :. The serious Science Fiction film genre is dead or at least on cinematic life support. As the new millennial marches forward, and an omnipresent production paradigm that substitutes spectacle for smarts, futurist filmmaking is definitely gasping for breath.

Little Children (2006)

by Matt Mazur

[2.May.07] :. Director Todd Field's eye for the minutiae of the everyday is impeccable.

The Pay Off: The Best Film of 2006

by PopMatters Staff

[11.Jan.07] :. For many of the movies on PopMatters' 2006 list of the year's best films, it is clear that a heavy personal and professional stake was riding on the final product.

Blood Diamond (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Dec.06] :. The movie can't seem to get out of its own way, relying on melodramatic clichés to make complex political observations.

Little Children (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.Oct.06] :. If Little Children is pedantic and sometimes smug in its judgments, it is also painful.

Dark Water: Unrated Widescreen Edition (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Jan.06] :. 'I'm attracted by the unknown, by the unexplainable,' says director Walter Salles.

Dark 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.

Mulholland 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.

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.

Waking the Dead (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Waking 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).

Waking the Dead (2000)

by P. Nelson Reinsch

Though 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.

Requiem for a Dream (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Requiem 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...

A Beautiful Mind (2001)

by Lesley Smith

A 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.