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Articles tagged "jennifer garner" Short Ends and Leader‘Ghosts’ is Passable RomCom Fareby Bill Gibron[1.May.09] :. Remember when Matthew McConaughey was the next big thing? Around the release of A Time to Kill, when he was the “it” actor bound for superstar glory. Of course, many of these...  Film ReviewGhosts of Girlfriends Pastby Cynthia Fuchs[1.May.09] :. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past submits that Connor deserves to be saved by Jenny. But it never shows how or why she should bother with him.  The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview FeatureSummer of Same: May 2009by Bill Gibron[27.Apr.09] :. May's titles include the fourth films in two aging franchises, more Pixar perfection, and the reboot of a TV series from 40 years ago. And they say there are no new ideas. The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview  Film DVD ReviewJunoby Jarrett Berman[14.Apr.08] :. Teens have their precious catchphrases and secret languages, but they're nervous, fumbling creatures. They don’t come equipped with Chaucer-like witticisms, or razor-sharp retorts.  News‘Juno’ grows and growsby Robert W. Butler [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][17.Jan.08] :. For a low-budget movie with no major names in its cast, “Juno” has become a force to be reckoned with. Last weekend the indie comedy about a pregnant teen took third place at the box...  PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007 FeatureA Gallery of Good Works: The Best Films of 2007by PopMatters Staff[11.Jan.08] :. From Julian Schnabel's artsy The Diving Bell and the Butterfly to the legendary Coen Brothers splendid adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men, PopMatters counts down the 30 best films of 2007. PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007 Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Femaleby PopMatters Staff[9.Jan.08] :. From the most sweetly nuanced performance of Jennifer Jason Leigh's career to Cate Blanchett's revelatory portrayal of Bob Dylan in I'm Not There, the women of 2007 were stellar. Oh, baby! 2007 gave birth to a brood of pregnancy comediesby Chris Vognar [The Dallas Morning News (MCT)][20.Dec.07] :. In “Juno,” the new, life-affirming teen pregnancy comedy, our spunky 16-year-old heroine is aghast to learn she’s been knocked up. “I was thinking I’d just nip it in the... Diablo Cody, from stripper to The Screenwriterby Colin Covert [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)][10.Dec.07] :. Diablo Cody’s Cinderella moment had arrived. Her film “Juno” was less than four hours from its Hollywood premiere. As the Centerpiece Gala presentation of the annual American Film... Junoby Daynah Burnett[5.Dec.07] :. A movie about a 16-year-old girl's unplanned pregnancy, Juno manages to avoid any significant emotional depths, despite its plainly complex subject. It Felt Fluid and Rhythmic: An Interview with Diablo Cody and Ellen Pageby Tricia Olszewski[5.Dec.07] :. The story in Juno is unpredictable and touching. But Cody's dialogue is exceptional, a flurry of hip, witty words that snap and dissipate before you can accuse them of being too stylized. Today’s foreign wars are Hollywood hellby Lewis Beale [Newsday (MCT)][9.Nov.07] :. This is not your grandfather’s war. This war is unpopular and controversial, seemingly endless. But that hasn’t stopped Hollywood from releasing a series of films about Iraq and its evil... A new script for Hollywood war moviesby Carrie Rickey [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)][11.Oct.07] :. Anti-war demonstrators storm the Pentagon in the movie “Across the Universe.” A career soldier protests the Iraq conflict in “In the Valley of Elah.” The tactics of an elite... Hollywood goes to war: Mainstream movies focus on Iraq, terrorismby Cary Darling [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][1.Oct.07] :. Writer Matthew Michael Carnahan makes a living pounding out movie scripts, where flights of fantasy and retreats from reality are the daily stock in trade. But a couple of autumns back, while... The Kingdomby Cynthia Fuchs[28.Sep.07] :. Boasting charismatic stars and a topical focus on terrorism, the film adds one more cagey detail -- a hint of moral challenge to its own thrills-and-chills violence. Catch and Release (2006)by Matt Mazur[14.May.07] :. That this film somehow managed to attract such an array of diverse talent, and was marketed as a feminine romantic comedy, will confound viewers to no end. Catch and Release (2006)by Cynthia Fuchs[26.Jan.07] :. That this movie doesn’t find a way out of the morass of generic cliché and triviality isn't surprising, but it is disappointing. Elektra (2005)by Cynthia Fuchs[7.Apr.05] :. Even as she might look toward a future, however, Elektra is all about the past. Elektra (2005)by Cynthia Fuchs[14.Jan.05] :. Now starring in her own movie (following the generally dismal effort called Daredevil, in which she was, by the way, killed), Elektra is all rage, careening between hyper-organization (she arranges her bananas so they all point the same way) and finely honed, utterly scary violence. Aliasby Cynthia Fuchs[12.Jan.05] :. Syd is back inside, mad and sad, insolent and exposed, a soap star with a body count. 13 Going on 30 (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[3.Aug.04] :. Jennifer Garner embodies a joy that's all too rare on recent movie screens, in adults or kids. Daredevil (2003)by Cynthia Fuchs[28.Jul.03] :. Daredevil has good reasons for his gear, and for the screwed-up attitude that goes with. Daredevil (2003)by Cynthia Fuchs[20.Feb.03] :. It's unlikely that this gloominess accounts for Daredevil's big success. There are any number of plausible explanations -- the 'Sexiest Man Alive' and his J. Lo glow, the promotional blitz, the Marvel machine. No matter. Bring the pain. Daredevil (2003)by Todd R. Ramlow[13.Feb.03] :. The good news is that Johnson's Daredevil follows Marvel's disability politics. Catch Me If You Can (2002)by Cynthia Fuchs[26.Dec.02] :. Steven Spielberg's zippy new film is about the kind of 'truth' that might only be apprehended in its telling. PopMatters - Television - Reviews - Time of Your Lifeby Susan BrownTime of Your Life, Jennifer Love Hewitt’s first starring vehicle since leaving Party of Five, is, if nothing else, an interesting failure. At first, it seemed like ideal spin-off... Aliasby Cynthia FuchsWhen Syd learns, in the first episode of 'Alias', that she's been working for the bad guys all along, she wants out. But of course, they won't let her out. Tres 'La Femme Nikita'. Dude, Where’s My Car? (2000)by Susan GlenIt comes down to this: it's pretty pathetic when you go to the $5 matinee and want $4 back at the end. And it's downright shameful when you want back 'all' $5, 'plus' popcorn money, 'plus' a few more bucks for the intentional infliction of emotional distress. |
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