Articles tagged "jessica alba"

Film Review

The Love Guru

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Jun.08] :. Both frantic and tedious, The Love Guru piles on the slapdash offenses.

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Hin-Don’t

by Bill Gibron

[19.Jun.08] :. It stands as one of the most unusual, and blinkered, boycotts ever. For the last few months, self-proclaimed Indo-American leader Rajan Zed has been waging a one man campaign against Mike...

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The PopMatters Summer 2008 Movie Preview Feature

The Return of the Popcorn Circus: June 2008

by Bill Gibron

[29.Apr.08] :. If May almost tent-poled itself out of existence, June will be even worse. After all, are audiences really ready for 13 major release in less than two months -- with more to come?

The PopMatters Summer 2008 Movie Preview

 

Film Review

The Eye

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Feb.08] :. Once the line is clearly drawn between subjective and objective worlds, The Eye turns into just another ill-advised, exploitative remake.

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Film DVD Review

The Ten

by Stuart Henderson

[14.Jan.08] :. A high-speed collision between Krzysztof Kieślowski's Dekalog and Woody Allen’s Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex.

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

Super Duper Bad: The Worst Films of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[11.Jan.08] :. From Good Luck Chuck to Julie Taymor's ill-advised Beatlesque '60s tribute Across the Universe, PopMatters presents the dreck of 2007.

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

 

Awake

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Dec.07] :. Though Awake makes a vague case against playing god in the operating room, it also argues for other sorts of manipulations, none convincing.

 

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

by Bill Gibron

[28.Nov.07] :. Not every comic book movie is geared toward the nearing middle aged geek - something naysayers of the Fantastic Four franchise fail to comprehend.

 

Jessica Alba tries comedy in ‘Good Luck Chuck’

by John Anderson [Newsday (MCT)]

[24.Sep.07] :. NEW YORK—“Did you think I was naked?” asks Jessica Alba. Before you can say “get out of my dream life,” you realize she’s referring to a scene in her new comedy...

 

Good Luck Chuck

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Sep.07] :. Who are these people? It's hard to look at the cavorting and cruelty in Good Luck Chuck and not wonder whether you've dropped into an alternate universe.

 

The Ten

by Jesse Hassenger

[7.Aug.07] :. Despite the sight gags, recurring characters, amusing references, and genuine chuckles it elicits, The Ten is more exercise than tour de force.

 

Writer takes another ‘Fantastic’ voyage

by Jeff Strickler [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)]

[18.Jun.07] :. The call to Mark Frost from his agent in 2003 started out, “This might seem like a crazy idea ...” The agent was suggesting that he think about writing the script for the live-action...

 

The Silver Surfer finally lands on summer movie screens

by Bobby Bryant [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[18.Jun.07] :. He’s a Christ figure on a flying surfboard. A chrome-plated philosopher. A herald of doom. The Oscar statuette come to life. Marvel Comics’ Silver Surfer has been many things to many...

 

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Jun.07] :. At the start of Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, the now incorporated superheroes are negotiating endorsement contracts.

 

Monkey Business (Part 2: June)

by Bill Gibron

[2.May.07] :. Apparently, as the sun's strongest rays finally settle over the movie going public, sequels are the remedy to cool down an overheated demographic. This month alone holds five examples of such redux refreshment. The rest of the choices are a variety pack of genres, ideas and possibilities.

 

Fantastic Four (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Dec.05] :. The superpowers bring trauma, anger, and confusion, and eventually a sense of responsibility, as the crew decides to do good with what they've got.

 

Into the Blue (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[30.Sep.05] :. Jessica Alba looks fabulous.

 

Sin City (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Aug.05] :. Like the guys, the girls are undone by their reliance on conventional male power signs.

 

Fantastic Four (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Jul.05] :. As Marvel comics fans already know, being zapped by a radioactive cloud in outer space alters your DNA according to your sense of self.

 

Sin City (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[1.Apr.05] :. Distraught, ornery, self-critical, these heroes are certainly more "anti" types than straight-ahead.

 

Honey (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[4.Dec.03] :. Honey's so good that local hoochie mama just has to challenge her.

 

Dark Angel: The Complete First Season

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.May.03] :. Max was like, queen of the one-liners; what you wish you could think of, she would say.

 

Dark Angel

by Cynthia Fuchs

Her beigeyness is relevant here as well: Alba is on record as being Spanish-Mexican-French-Danish, but more to the point, [her character] Max Guevera is a non-white-girl starring in a world where the people in power are still overwhelmingly Caucasian.

 

Dark Angel

by Cynthia Fuchs

In Dark Angel, Max's apparently tireless pursuit of her weird past... means that she's always trying to define herself as part of something, a race, a community, a politics.