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Film DVD Review

An American Carol

by David Hearne

[15.Jan.09] :. This is what right-wingers accuse Hollywood liberals of making: a vanity project intended to please a small, select group.

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24: Redemption

by Jake Meaney

[8.Dec.08] :. Redemption manages to locate an emotional center than had been missing from 24 since…well, if not ever, since at least the first season.

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24: Redemption

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Nov.08] :. In Africa, where children are forced to soldier, Jack realizes, every day is full of terror -- not just the 24-hour spates he's used to confronting.

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Short Ends and Leader

‘Pride and Glory’ is Solid but Predictable

by Bill Gibron

[24.Oct.08] :. By now, we understand the corruption festering under the thin blue line. Call it The Departed Syndrome, or the Badge-Carrying Whistleblower’s Waltz but movies portraying policeman as...

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Film Review

Pride and Glory

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Oct.08] :. By the time Eladio (Rick Gonzalez) makes his single-scene appearance in Pride and Glory, the fate of his adversary has been exhaustively telegraphed.

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The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview Feature

Talk, Talk, Talk: October 2008

by Bill Gibron

[10.Sep.08] :. What studio suit thought this was a good idea? With four months to schedule your high priced efforts, you instead unload almost 30 overpriced pictures on an unsuspecting movie audience.

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National Treasure: Book of Secrets

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Dec.07] :. The primary draw in the National Treasures is Nic Cage, odd and spasmodic, undeniably charismatic.

 

Transformers

by Erik Hinton

[26.Oct.07] :. Consider the patience and time it takes to build a ship in a bottle. Now imagine a fully functional Spanish Armada in a snow globe.

 

September Dawn

by Cynthia Fuchs

[27.Aug.07] :. Jon Voight looks like a monument in September Dawn, his jaw set and eyes granite hard.

 

Will the new ‘Transformers’ film have ‘The Touch’?

by Jeff Vrabel [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[3.Jul.07] :. As someone who spent much of his childhood collecting and breaking Transformers, I’m approaching next week’s movie version with a feeling that veers back and forth between terror and...

 

Transformers (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Jul.07] :. The point here is excess. For 144 minutes, the film pummels and pounds, delivering explosions, combat troops, speeding vehicles, computer codes, giant robots -- and more explosions.

 

Transformers (2007)

by Bill Gibron

[3.Jul.07] :. Without the weight of an already formed franchise to pull it down, this filmic funhouse is allowed to spin wildly out of control. We simply sit back and enjoy the operatic ride.

 

Ghost Rider (2007)

by Marc Calderaro

[25.Jun.07] :. This script takes generic archetypes and applies them to specific situations only by the cheapest of character-development techniques.

 

Pope John Paul II

by Kevin Garcia

[13.Jun.07] :. This film provides insight into John Paul Two's character that no unauthorized biography could have achieved.

 

Monkey Business (Part 3: July)

by Bill Gibron

[3.May.07] :. Finally, a month with only one remaining series contender. All wizard based Potter-y aside, this will be the most tenuous time for the business called show. After a strong start, the eccentric collection of entertainments here could make or break this potentially record shattering motion picture season.

 
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TV Review

Brando

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.May.07] :. Brando is most original and inspiring when it looks at Brando's other work. As Bobby Seale remembers, "If I said, 'Constitutional democratic civil human rights,' I mean, it lit him up."

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Ghost Rider (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Feb.07] :. Now, not only is the Ghost Rider beleaguered by Mephistopheles' incessant demands, but also by this big-screen ignominy.

 

Table For Five (1983)

by Samantha Bornemann

[11.Jul.05] :. Watching this 1983 tearjerker anew is a jarring, surprising experience.

 

The Manchurian Candidate (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Dec.04] :. Demme's movie reasserts that the fabled U.S. political landscape isn't transparent or democratic, but instead, corrupted by the individuals who manage it.

 

National Treasure (2004)

by Lesley Smith

[19.Nov.04] :. Popular propaganda at its best -- high quality creative work allied to a resounding endorsement of a status quo the American electorate seems determined to maintain.

 

SuperBabies: Baby Geniuses 2 (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[27.Aug.04] :. Today's so-called 'family entertainment' will go to pathetic exploitative depths to make a buck.

 

The Manchurian Candidate (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[30.Jul.04] :. The Manchurian Candidate draws a line between the corporation and the government, sustaining a hope that the U.S. system might be salvaged by an honestly free election.

 

Ali: The Director’s Cut (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Jun.04] :. The bravest thing Ali does is to gesture toward, wonder at, and celebrate Muhammad Ali, and then let go of him.

 

Ali (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Dec.01] :. Ali embodies a kind of car-wreck charisma -- arrogant and self-conscious, beautiful and fierce, even on twenty-year-old tape, he can take your breath away. This ability to mesmerize makes Ali who he is, or more accurately, who everyone wants him to be. He's a cipher and a screen onto which viewers might project themselves.

 

Tomb Raider (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

This spectacular image of androgynous, self-stimulating sexual excess speaks directly to the wonder and threat of Lara Croft, so adept at masculine and feminine wiles, and every wile in between.

 

Tomb Raider (2001)

by Mike Ward

All this symbolism would be quite impressive, actually, if 'Tomb Raider' ever gave the slightest impression it knew where it was going with it or was eventually planning to use these symbols to say something coherent.