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Spin City: The Complete Second Season

by Andrew Winistorfer

[26.Apr.09] :. A rough dry run for Bill Lawrence, who would create a much better workplace drama with Scrubs.

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Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999 Feature

Part 2: The Virgin Suicides to The Blair Witch Project (May - August 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[24.Mar.09] :. In Part Two of our look at the most memorable films of 1999, we experience music, foul-mouthed mayhem, and a late, great auteur's final cinematic statement.

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

 

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Hollywood, race and the Age of Obama

by Christopher Kelly [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[26.Dec.08] :. Gook. Dragon lady. Swamp rats. These are but a few of the cringe-inducing racial epithets spewed by Clint Eastwood’s Walt Kowalski in “Gran Torino,” the cringe-inducing new drama...

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Related

by Samantha Bornemann

[12.Oct.05] :. Given its pedigree, Related makes its performance anxiety annoyingly audible.

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Film Review

Crash (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.May.05] :. The lesson seems geared toward those viewers who were surprised by the Rodney King video, that is, people who don't regularly deal with cultural collisions.

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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.

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Taxi (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Oct.04] :. Belle is set up to work against stereotypes: athletic, aggressive, mechanically inclined, she's a black woman NASCAR fan.

 

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.

 

Summer of Sam (1999)

by Cynthia Fuchs

It was a hot time in the city. The days sweltered and the nights vibrated with the latest craze, disco. In the Bronx in 1977, the Yankees were headed for a pennant, a Con Ed blackout inspired looting, assaulting, and arresting, and the .44 killer was shooting young dark-haired women and their dates as they necked in their parked cars.

 

Just One Time (1999)

by Stephen Tropiano

Janger and co-writer Jennifer Vandever's screenplay ultimately compromises its sexual politics in order to make the film both gay- and straight-friendly. And yet, 'Just One Time' still has an underlying appeal due to its terrific ensemble cast and Janger's talent as a director, able to handle the film's occasional shifts in tone, between the more serious moments shared by Amy and Anthony, and the lighter touches of comedy, such as the guys' excursion to the gay bar.

 

Don’t Say a Word (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Michael Douglas's latest film, 'Don't Say a Word', is painfully and transparently about, well, him.

 

Dracula 2000 / Shadow of the Vampire (2000) - PopMatters Film Review )

by Todd R. Ramlow

Frankly, it doesn't seem coincidental that these films are being released around the holidays; certainly Dracula's bloodsucking lust appeals on some level to our own holiday consumer frenzies.

 

Don’t Say a Word (2001)

by Renee Scolaro Rathke

Michael Douglas's latest film, 'Don't Say a Word', is painfully and transparently about, well, him.