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Articles tagged "jessica alba" Film ReviewThe Love Guruby Cynthia Fuchs[20.Jun.08] :. Both frantic and tedious, The Love Guru piles on the slapdash offenses.  Film ReviewThe Eyeby 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.  Film ReviewAwakeby 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.  Film DVD ReviewFantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surferby 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.  NewsJessica 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...  Film ReviewGood Luck Chuckby 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 Tenby 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. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surferby Cynthia Fuchs[15.Jun.07] :. At the start of Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, the now incorporated superheroes are negotiating endorsement contracts. 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. 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 Seasonby Cynthia Fuchs[28.May.03] :. Max was like, queen of the one-liners; what you wish you could think of, she would say. Dark Angelby Cynthia FuchsIn 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. Dark Angelby Cynthia FuchsHer 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. |
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