Articles tagged "jonathan rhys meyers"

TV Review

The Tudors: Season Three Premiere

by Todd R. Ramlow

[9.Apr.09] :. The Tudors reminds us that, like Islam and Judaism today, Christianity has had, and undoubtedly continues to have, its own fundamentalists, ideologues, and terrorists.

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

Part 5: Toy Story 2 to Titus (November - December 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[27.Mar.09] :. On this final day of PopMatters' 1999 overview, awards season hype gives way to pure acting prowess and definitive directorial flair.

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

 

News

Jonathan Rhys Meyers returns in 3rd season of Showtime’s ‘The Tudors’

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

[24.Mar.09] :. UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. - Irish actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers thinks he still has worlds to conquer, though he’s won five awards and been nominated for even more. Audiences and critics were...

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Short Ends and Leader

These ‘Children’ Deserve a More Factual Format

by Bill Gibron

[1.Jul.08] :. While it may seem sacrilegious to say it, stories of heroic human efforts during the tenuous dangers of wartime appear to be an international dime a dozen. Just when you think all the narrative bases...

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Film Review

Children of Huang Shi

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.May.08] :. Children of Huang Shi is another movie about a well-meaning white man stumbling into an exotic and unknowable elsewhere where he learns all about himself.

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PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007 Feature

Super Duper Bad: The Worst Films of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[11.Jan.08] :. From Good Luck Chuck to Julie Taymor's ill-advised Beatlesque '60s tribute Across the Universe, PopMatters presents the dreck of 2007.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007

 

August Rush

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Nov.07] :. Evan has the great good luck of being a veritable Magical Negro magnet.

 

The Tudors

by Todd R. Ramlow

[26.Apr.07] :. The Tudors is pointed in its critical assessment of Enlightenment philosophy, whose legacies (individualism, liberal humanism) still adhere in today's world.

 

Vanity Fair (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Sep.04] :. Ah, to be young, bright, and scheming in 19th-century Britain!"

 

Titus (1999)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Here’s how the world might end. Close-up of a boy’s eyes. Long shot of a kitchen table, cluttered with hot dogs, paper bags, toy soldiers, french fries, milk, and ketchup he’s using...

 

Ride with the Devil (1999)

by Todd R. Ramlow

Ride with the Devil is essentially two films in one. The first is a story of loyalty - to family, community, and nation - tested in the social and political upheavals of civil war. The second is a story of male bonding and love in a homosocial order, the negotiation of male-male desire, and male domestication, all triangulated and enabled through the body of a woman.

 

Ride with the Devil (1999)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Ride With the Devil dares to bring yet another version. Directed by Ang Lee and written by Lee and his usual collaborator James Schamus (who adapted Daniel Woodrell's novel Woe to Live On, a novel inspired, says the author, by today's warfare in the Balkans), the film is rather surprising, and not only because it stars Jewel as a Southern widow. Telling stories that don't usually get told, Ride With the Devil focuses on some of the War's more disgraceful and outrageous aspects, both personal and public.