Articles tagged "jeremy irons"

Short Ends and Leader

Serious Flaw Threatens ‘Appaloosa’s’ Excellence

by Bill Gibron

[2.Oct.08] :. When the Western died, it did so because of two distinct reasons. First, the media had so saturated the audience with as many warmed over oaters as possible that even fervent devotees screamed...

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Film Review

Appaloosa

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.Oct.08] :. Men are weathered in Appaloosa, a one-saloon town in 1882's New Mexico Territory.

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The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview Feature

Talk, Talk, Talk: September 2008

by Bill Gibron

[9.Sep.08] :. From wars both past and present to a number of nail-biting thrillers, September is sizing up as a potentially profitable one.

The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview

 

Film DVD Feature

The Perfect Lean, Mean, Macho Machine

by Marco Lanzagorta

[26.Mar.08] :. The Die Hard series is a true rollercoaster of visual excesses guaranteed to raise the viewer’s adrenaline levels – while invoking intriguing ideological and cultural subtexts that deal with race, gender, masculinity, and social anxieties.

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PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007 Feature

Digital Dynamite: The 30 Best DVDs of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[25.Jan.08] :. It was the year of the behemoth box set, the multi-disc triumph that tried to give long suffering fans everything their demanding little digital hearts ever desired. Here are PopMatters' 30 picks for the best DVDs of the year.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007

 

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2006 Feature

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.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2006

 

Inland Empire (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Jan.07] :. Nikki's story takes her deep inside herself or deep inside the movie industry.No matter how you're inclined to read the film's final dancers, the scene offers a Lynchian Rorschach test. What you see tells you something about you.

 

Casanova (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Apr.06] :. This would be the cleaned-up, wearisome, supposedly romantic version of the notorious Casanova.

 

Casanova (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.Jan.06] :. Gaudy and giddy, this Casanova is full of energy but also strangely limp.

 

William Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.May.05] :. Pacino contains Shylock's temper as reaction, looking simultaneously vile and vulnerable, hardly a simple balance.

 

Kingdom of Heaven (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.May.05] :. As history, it is mightily revisionist -- a blacksmith named turns inadvertent defender of Jerusalem, devoted to the notion that Muslims and Christians can get along.

 

William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Jan.05] :. Jessica is alone, contemplative, and distressed.

 

William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice (2004)

by Jesse Hassenger

[6.Jan.05] :. Pacino, noted lover of Shakespeare, strives for a multi-dimensional characterization of the angry Shylock, underlining his sadness and indignation.

 

Callas Forever (2002)

by Mia Jankowicz

[17.Dec.04] :. Callas Forever is cursed by its title.

 

And Now Ladies and Gentlemen (2002)

by Chris Elliot

[10.Feb.04] :. For Valentin (Jeremy Irons), the thrill of the caper just isn't getting it done any longer.

 

The Time Machine (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Mar.02] :. [In 'The Time Machine',] Alexander decides to go look for an answer, but going into the future (why, we'll never know).

 

Dungeons & Dragons (2000)

by Todd R. Ramlow

With all this avowed dedication to D&D, its values and ethics, its alternative vision of a utopic world, and all the time it took Courtney Solomon to secure funding for the film, you would think he could have come up with a much better movie than the one we see here.

 

Dungeons & Dragons (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

That said, as I understand it, the game has long been invested in a vague racial equality, though in the film this translates mostly to elves and dwarves taking sides with the boy-humans against those tiresome, self-aggrandizing Mages.