Articles tagged "jennifer hudson"

Sound Affects

Unconditional Love: Soul Music Bites Back

by Diepiriye Kuku

[2.Sep.09] :. Pontificating on the words behind the meaning behind such words as: "Now that it’s raining more than ever / Know that we’ll still have each other / You can stand under my umbrella, ella-ella-ay-ay-ay".

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PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008 Feature

OMG - The 20 Worst Films of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[15.Jan.09] :. There's bad, and then there's 2008 level bad. You know this list is looking down into a deep dark bottomless pit of cinematic despair when Mike Myers' shameful Love Guru didn't even make the Top 20!

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008

 

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008 Feature

Celulloid Culpability - Top 10 Film Guilty Pleasures of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[13.Jan.09] :. Like comedy or music, one's choice in cinematic pleasure can be very personal - and very peculiar. Take this tantalizing list of shameful indulgences. You can argue over their artistic value, but their individuals rewards definitely speak to those who champion them.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008

 

Film Review

Sex and the City: The Movie

by Lesley Smith

[30.May.08] :. There’s more than a hint of disinterment about this movie, as if everyone involved were reinhabiting old skins and discarded personalities, and unable to shake the lassitude of the grave.

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News

‘Sex and the City’: The girls are back — and for the cast, the wait has been worth it

by Rene Rodriguez [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[29.May.08] :. There are no Wookies in the “Sex and the City” movie—no Vulcans with pointy ears or hobbits with oversize feet or aging archaeologists fond of bullwhips and fedoras. Heck, there...

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Film Review

Sex and the City: The Movie

by Chris Barsanti

[29.May.08] :. It's two or three season finales' worth of tears and OMG jawdroppers whacked together into a big, sloppy, gooey sundae of a film that is, for better or for worse, just like the show -- only longer.

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Vexed in the City

by Bill Gibron

[29.May.08] :. Revisiting Annie Hall the other evening, this critic was struck at how mature and well meaning the movie was. At the time of its release, it was heralded as a breakout work for its...

 

The Return of the Popcorn Circus: May 2008

by Bill Gibron

[28.Apr.08] :. In the first act of this four-part production, Tinsel Town decides to do some unbelievable front loading. Will there be room for independent offerings, or former HBO carnal comedy divas? Who knows? Without a doubt, it's an interesting way to start the season.

 

agoDreamgirls (2006)

by Iquo B. Essien

[10.May.07] :. An undeniably fun ride, albeit with too much restraint here, too over-the-top there.

 

Life after ‘American Idol’? It’s a dream for Jennifer Hudson

by Mark Caro [Chicago Tribune]

[24.Dec.06] :. CHICAGO—Jennifer Hudson had been driven to her high school before, but never with a woman brushing her hair from the SUV seat behind her while another woman sat next to her spraying a bronze...

 

Dreamgirls (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Dec.06] :. The decidedly uneven score embraces the music of its moment, from soul to Motown to pop to disco, all filtered through Broadway, which means it's all too watery and white.