Articles tagged "julia roberts"

The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview Feature

Summer of Same: June 2009

by Bill Gibron

[28.Apr.09] :. This month's "original" fare offers a take on a Sid and Marty Krofft classic, more battling seizure robots, and the retaking of '70s subway thriller. Everything old is new again.

The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview

 

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Q&A with ‘Duplicity’ director Tony Gilroy

by Roger Moore [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)]

[22.Mar.09] :. Tony Gilroy is lapping it up. An Oscar nominee for writing and directing “Michael Clayton,” much in demand as a screenwriter thanks to his adapting the Jason Bourne action films,...

PopWire

 

Film Review

Duplicity

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Mar.09] :. For all its bright banter and flashbacky fanciness, Duplicity boils down to this rudimentary formula: morality and success are functions of beauty.

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After a career lull, Julia Roberts hopes she can still rule at the box office

by John Anderson [Newsday (MCT)]

[19.Mar.09] :. HOLLYWOOD - The word layoff has an entirely different meaning for a Hollywood movie star than, say, a fired GM worker, but both involve career idleness, apprehension and questions: Is Julia...

PopWire

 

Film DVD Review

Charlie Wilson’s War

by Christian Toto

[24.Apr.08] :. Sorkin's signature dialogue -- smart, rapid fire chatter that packs a punch -- makes this the most engaging poli-sci class you'll ever attend.

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

Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Male

by PopMatters Staff

[9.Jan.08] :. From the tender and eerie precision of Sam Riley's depiction of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis in Control to yet another superlative performance by Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood, PopMatters highlights the best male actors of 2007.

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

 

Charlie Wilson’s War

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Dec.07] :. Like The West Wing, Charlie Wilson's War is leftish and glib, entertaining and exasperating, and written by Aaron Sorkin.

 

Kids’ DVDs: June 2007

by Roger Holland

[6.Jun.07] :. Given that babies and young children love nothing more than repetition, repetition, and... um.... repetition, I can't understand why even the pointiest of heads would think children between the ages of six months and three years could possible need 23 different Baby Einstein DVDs.

 

Charlottes Web (2006)

by Daynah Burnett

[14.Dec.06] :. Surprise! There is nothing even remotely offensive or ironic or postmodern about Charlotte's Web.

 

Closer (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Apr.05] :. This leads to titillation, judgment, desire, and commerce all around. How Howard Stern.

 

Closer (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Dec.04] :. This leads to titillation, judgment, desire, and commerce all around. How Howard Stern.

 

Mona Lisa Smile (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Mar.04] :. Berkley-educated, Katherine is a 'forward thinker,' a 'bohemian' who believes that education opens doors.

 

Mona Lisa Smile (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Dec.03] :. Katherine has her hands full, even aside from looking for romance (though this happens too, as this is, after all, a Julia Roberts movie).

 

Hook (1991)

by Jesse Hassenger

[15.Sep.03] :. Hook is thoroughly watchable, often amusing, fitfully entertaining.

 

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Jan.03] :. His redemption, Barris abruptly realizes, can come only in detailed recollection, specifically, in his decision to confess his many sins.

 

Full Frontal (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[1.Aug.02] :. This self-satisfaction makes Full Frontal's gears grind.

 

Ocean’s Eleven (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.Dec.01] :. The background surf, unbuttoned shirt, and look away from the camera -- all this demonstrates just how movie-starness is done. The plot, like I say, is beside the point.

 

Runaway Bride (1999)

by Cynthia Fuchs

I worry about Julia Roberts. I know I don't need to but still, I feel like I can't help it. It's not because she's a particularly convincing performer on or off screen, though she does look distressed or vulnerable much of the time. It's not because the promoters for her latest movie, Runaway Bride, have been running ads with the creepiest stalker song ever made, the Police's Every Breath You Take.

 

Notting Hill (1999)

by Cynthia Fuchs

'The fame thing,' says fictional megawatt movie star Anna Scott, 'isn't really real.' And she should know, since she's played by real-life megawatt movie star Julia Roberts. The fame thing often does seem unreal to people who don't live it, so it's comforting to hear from Anna (or Julia) that it seems unreal to her as well

 

The Mexican (2001)

by Todd R. Ramlow

'The Mexican' follows the turbulent near-end of the relationship between hapless Mafia gopher Jerry Welbach (Brad) and his obsessive, psycho-babbling girlfriend Samantha Barzel (Julia), who reduces everything in her life to 'blame-shifting' and others' inability to express their emotions.

 

The Mexican (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

On its good-looking surface (being well-composed and carefully lit), 'The Mexican' is a love story.

 

The Mexican (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

On its good-looking surface (being well-composed and carefully lit), 'The Mexican' is a love story.

 

Erin Brockovich (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

What is it about a picture of Julia Roberts with a baby on her hip that seems so irresistible? This would be, of course, one of the images that’s become so instantly familiar through its heavy...

 

America’s Sweethearts (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Truly, Julia Roberts leads a charmed life.