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Articles tagged "jimmy smits" TV ReviewDexter: Season Three Premiereby Cynthia Fuchs[26.Sep.08] :. The moral muddling is never resolved in Dexter. The more Dexter (Michael C. Hall) insists on his rightness, the more limited his vision appears.  TV ReviewAmerican Experience: Roberto Clementeby Cynthia Fuchs[21.Apr.08] :. Clemente was a brilliant ballplayer, but also conflicted and complicated, as demonstrated in Bernardo Ruiz's documentary, Roberto Clemente.  PopMatters Picks: The Best of TV on DVD FeaturePart 5 - Beyond the Envelopeby PopMatters Staff[12.Oct.07] :. The format forced the issue among cult and commercial products. And TV on DVD highlighted the cream of the creative, forward thinking crop. PopMatters Picks: The Best of TV on DVD  Film ReviewThe Jane Austen Book Clubby Cynthia Fuchs[28.Sep.07] :. The movie abandons any aspiration to Austen's wit or social critique, and lapses instead into total triteness.  TV ReviewCaneby Cynthia Fuchs[25.Sep.07] :. Cane's soap operatic set-up is both efficient and florid, laying out both familial continuity and class distinctions.  PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2006 FeatureTime Encapsulating: The Best DVDs of 2006by PopMatters Staff[10.Jan.07] :. From solid single issues to amazingly complete film and television compilations, the works highlighted here argue for DVD's continued importance. PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2006 The West Wingby David Swerdlick[16.Nov.05] :. There are growing overlaps between politics, news, and entertainment. Hard news has taken a back seat to feature journalism and talk shows, real politics to realpolitik. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)by Cynthia Fuchs[19.May.05] :. For all its lavish effects, Sith's primary purpose is to showcase Anakin's dilemma. The West Wingby Michael AbernethyAs is often the case with presidential terms, the Bartlett administration ended with great pomp and little circumstance. Price of Glory (2000)by Cynthia FuchsPrice of Glory opens with a boxing match in Phoenix, Arizona, 1977. While the mostly Mexican/Latino ringside crowd yells and hoots, a young man takes a terrible beating. His trainer urges him on, his face is bruised and panicked, and the scene lurches into that boxing film cliche, the eight-frames-per-second knock-out punch: his jaw contorts, his blood flies, and he hits the floor. Bless the Child (2000)by Cynthia FuchsCody's special in a very particular way -- in a second-coming kind of way -- which, in movie-logic, makes her the prime target for a slew of Satan's minions. |
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