Articles tagged "joe mantegna"

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999 Feature

Part 4: All About My Mother to Sleepy Hollow (October - November 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[26.Mar.09] :. Outsiders and oddballs make up Part Four's formidable filmmakers, an idiosyncratic collection of dreamers and visionaries.

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

 

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

The Best Television Performers of 2008

by Michael Abernethy

[14.Jan.09] :. More than anything, though, I wish all those political pundits would take some time off, to rest and let their vocal cords recuperate. That truly would make for a happy new year.

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

 

TV Review

Criminal Minds: Season Four Premiere

by Todd R. Ramlow

[24.Sep.08] :. The fourth season premiere of Criminal Minds revisits 9/11 anxieties, as Special Agent Hotchner (Thomas Gibson) stumbles dazedly around a street in lower Manhattan, having nearly been blown to smithereens by a car bomb.

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Film Review

Redbelt

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.May.08] :. In Redbelt, as ever in David Mamet's universe, the fight is the issue.

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The PopMatters Summer 2008 Movie Preview Feature

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.

The PopMatters Summer 2008 Movie Preview

 

News

Joe Mantegna steps in to save the day for ‘Criminal Minds’

by Luaine Lee [McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)]

[20.Nov.07] :. “Criminal Minds” has been plumbing the depths of the depraved with glowing success almost since it began airing on CBS. When the show’s star, Mandy Patinkin, decided to leave...

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Criminal Minds

by Cynthia Fuchs

[31.Oct.07] :. Joe Mantegna brings to Rossi a singular mournfulness and lingering rage that are not turned inward and angsty, but instead bent outward, into a mien that looks cocky but is also ready for what's unknown.

 

House of Games

by Matt Mazur

[31.Aug.07] :. In the section of town where rotten tenements boast rusty, decrepit fire escapes that rattle in the dank breeze she seems out of place, but somehow not out of her element.

 

Edmond (2005)

by Brian Holcomb

[3.Oct.06] :. An excellent noir, or a tragicomedy, about the repressed beliefs in all of us.

 

Edmond (2005)

by Jesse Hicks

[25.Aug.06] :. Violence liberates Edmond from society's restraints, focuses him on fulfilling his own desires, makes him appealing to the opposite sex.

 

Joan of Arcadia

by Samantha Bornemann

[2.May.05] :. Joan is more a young girl answering to an authority figure than a blind-faith disciple.

 

Stateside (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.May.04] :. Dori Lawrence (Rachael Leigh Cook) is a multi-threat performer, her career reeling between movies and rock 'n' roll, sometime in the 1980s.

 

Joan of Arcadia

by Jennifer D. Wesley

[6.Oct.03] :. The potential for edgier investigations and deeper questions is built into Joan of Arcadia's framework.

 

First Monday

by Lesley Smith

In 'First Monday', even more than in 'The West Wing', religious belief functions as a dramatic (and heavy-handed) shortcut.

 

Liberty Heights (1999)

by Cynthia Fuchs

This sign, set outside a suburban Baltimore country club in 1954, appears early in Barry Levinson's Liberty Heights, establishing at once the irony of its title (the name of a suburban Jewish neighborhood where its protagonists reside) and the film's focus on the insidious workings of prejudice, ranging from conspicuous to subtle.