Articles tagged "john leguizamo"

The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview Feature

Summer of Same: July 2009

by Bill Gibron

[29.Apr.09] :. In a rare attempt at novelty, July jets along with only Harry Potter and the Ice Age crew sampling continuing series spoils. The rest provide unknown pleasures.

The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview

 

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

Part 2: The Virgin Suicides to The Blair Witch Project (May - August 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[24.Mar.09] :. In Part Two of our look at the most memorable films of 1999, we experience music, foul-mouthed mayhem, and a late, great auteur's final cinematic statement.

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

 

News

‘Miracle at St. Anna,’ ‘Frozen River’ two of 2008’s best

by Bruce Dancis [McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)]

[10.Feb.09] :. Two of the most powerful films of 2008, movies that stay with you long after their final credits roll by, are out this week on DVD. Yet “Miracle at St. Anna” and “Frozen...

PopWire

 

Film DVD Review

Righteous Kill

by Jake Meaney

[5.Feb.09] :. This movie boasts a tired and generic script and achieves a weird sort of harmonic convergence of forgetablilty.

Recent DVD reviews

 

Film Review

Nothing Like the Holidays

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Dec.08] :. Nothing Like the Holidays is like a lot of other holiday movies.

Recent Film reviews

 

Column: The Screener

Why, Spike, Why?

by Chris Barsanti

[17.Oct.08] :. For all of Spike Lee's status as the eternal Young Turk, he's also a moviemaker who came of age just a few years after the brat pack of Spielberg, Scorsese, de Palma, et al.

Recent columns

 

Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs: Part 3

by PopMatters Staff

[16.Oct.08] :. Day Three - The final ten, a cross-culture collection teeming with big ideas, larger than life visions, and perhaps the greatest documentary on rugby you've probably never heard of.

 

Miracle at St. Anna

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Sep.08] :. Spike Lee's answer to the many WWII movies that have left out the experiences of black soldiers, Miracle at St. Anna is ambitious and ardent.

 

‘Miracle’ Is Engrossing if Uneven

by Bill Gibron

[25.Sep.08] :. Spike Lee has a big mouth. It’s a good thing he’s so talented, since he often loves to write confrontational checks that his filmmaking sometimes can’t cash. When Clint Eastwood...

 

‘Righteous Kill’: Attacked on All Sides

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Sep.08] :. Righteous Kill uses Karen (Carla Gugino) both to critique the male cops' sense of self-righteousness and be the victim.

 

‘Kill’ is Substandard Suspense

by Bill Gibron

[12.Sep.08] :. Sometimes, an excess of talent can lead to very little in evidence. Put another way, you can overload a film with artistic aspirations, failing to see that several pluses can still create a great big...

 

Talk, Talk, Talk: November 2008

by Bill Gibron

[11.Sep.08] :. Like the sainted sigh of relief that comes after another shriek-filled All Hallow's Eve, November usually means the start of the 'nominate me' process for the proposed prestige pictures of 2008.

 

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.

 

Fast chat with ‘The Happening’ co-star John Leguizamo

by Joseph V. Amodio [Newsday (MCT)]

[12.Jun.08] :. John Leguizamo’s been busy. This year alone he’s appeared in the crime drama “The Take,” the indie black comedy “The Babysitters,” and Friday he hits the big...

 

Mess Hysteria: The Happening vs. The Signal

by Bill Gibron

[12.Jun.08] :. Newsweek Magazine must still be smarting. Back in 2002, as Signs was gearing up for its box office assault, the publication called M. Night Shyamalan “The Next Spielberg”....

 

Love in the Time of Cholera

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Nov.07] :. Fermina remains a cipher, an object in Juvenal's possession and of Florentino's endless affection without an emotional life of her own.

 

Ice Age (2002)

by Tracy McLoone

[6.May.07] :. 'Ice Age' is not quite as liberal as it might appear on the surface.

 

Ice Age: Super Cool Edition (2002)

by Bill Gibron

[13.Mar.06] :. While studios have often been accused of meddling in the creative end of moviemaking, the new DVD presentation of this 2002 blockbuster, illustrates how readily Fox pandered to the movie-going public -- and how eager the filmmakers were to follow the audience's test scoring lead.

 

ER / The West Wing

by Samantha Bornemann

[5.Dec.05] :. The West Wing's chief relationships have been tested and compromised, turning Sorkin's noble, fast-walking liberals into more than the sum of their quips and ideals.

 

The Honeymooners (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Nov.05] :. While most of the target audience for the movie may not remember the TV version, Schultz's Honeymooners unfortunately forgets what was most appealing about the show.

 

Land of the Dead (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Jun.05] :. Predictably macabre, darkly comic, and grimly class conscious, Land of the Dead imagines a world where humans turn against each other when facing dreadful fates.

 

Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Jan.05] :. What still works is the edgy distrust-into-respect that develops between the killer and the cop.

 

Whispers in the Dark (1992)

by John G. Nettles

[8.Sep.04] :. What emerges here is a painfully generic potboiler briefly masquerading as softcore porn.

 

Spun (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Jul.03] :. Screenwriter William De Los Santos calls Spun a 'love story'.

 

Spun (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Apr.03] :. Boasting that it includes more than 5,000 edits, Jonas Åkerlund's feature debut offers glimpses -- very fast -- into life on speed.

 

Empire (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Dec.02] :. Of the many crazy clichés in Empire, Isabella Rossellini's big fat hair has to be the loony-tunesiest.

 

Collateral Damage (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Feb.02] :. As Schwarzenegger described the whole shebang to the guys on 'Fox NFL Sunday', 'There's some serious butt-kicking going on.'"

 

John Leguizamo: Live

by Wendy Robinson

[19.Nov.01] :. Skeletons in the family closet? Sexual deviances in your personality? Or maybe deeply hidden entanglements of both? All come to light in the commentary on John Leguizamo’s Live, which...

 

What’s the Worst That Could Happen? (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Martin Lawrence and Danny DeVito are doing that non-mating mating dance that buddy characters tend to do, with too much spastic energy and not nearly enough inspiration.

 

Titan A.E. (2000)

by Todd R. Ramlow

At the end of Don Bluth and Gary Goldman’s animated Titan A.E., after the ragtag group of humans have saved themselves and found a new planet (and I am really not giving anything away,...

 

Summer of Sam (1999)

by Cynthia Fuchs

It was a hot time in the city. The days sweltered and the nights vibrated with the latest craze, disco. In the Bronx in 1977, the Yankees were headed for a pennant, a Con Ed blackout inspired looting, assaulting, and arresting, and the .44 killer was shooting young dark-haired women and their dates as they necked in their parked cars.

 

Moulin Rouge (2001)

by Todd R. Ramlow

I imagine that at the 'real' Moulin Rouge, the thrill wasn't just a bit of nipple and a flash of panties, but the whole entertainment package, which no doubt included exuberant 'daring' new music intended to shock and titillate the sensitivity of the bourgeoisie -- kind of like rock-and-roll or punk in our times.

 

Moulin Rouge (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

She's the perfect drag queen, embodying the ruthless paradox of entertainment. She is the show that must go on and cannot.