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Articles tagged "katie holmes"Featured Article![]() DVD Film ReviewThe Ice Stormby Matt Mazur[4.Apr.08] :. The general fuzzed-out sense of malaise that Lee is able to tap into while exploring the Nixon-era sexual revolution (and repression and adventure), creates a point of view that both ruthlessly observes and empathizes with these alien suburbanites. ![]() Film ReviewMad Moneyby Cynthia Fuchs[18.Jan.08] :. Mad Money borrows liberally and carelessly from Set It Off, still a smart, angry film about class divisions that have only grown wider since 1996. ![]() DVD Film ReviewAbandon (2002)by Brian Holcomb[26.Jul.07] :. This is one of the best horror films in some time; not sacrificing itself to irony or parody but committed to the dark corners of human nature and the complex labyrinths that exist in the mind. ![]() DVD Film ReviewBatman Begins (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition with Comic Book) (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[4.Nov.05] :. Nolan's Batman is perpetually knotted up, unable to forget his dead parents, seeking a vague solace in his hard body's capacity for violence. ![]() Film ReviewBatman Begins (2005)by Todd R. Ramlow[16.Jun.05] :. Christian Bale brings a menace to Batman, making him radically distinct from alter ego Bruce Wayne. ![]() DVD Film ReviewFirst Daughter (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[17.Jan.05] :. This is the film's premise, that Sam's existence is simultaneously ideal and outrageous, typical and desirable. First Daughter (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[23.Sep.04] :. These 'times' are somehow exponentially more dangerous, but no one refers to 9/11 or the Bush administration, apparently erased in this alternate non-reality. Pieces of April (2003)by Cynthia Fuchs[23.Oct.03] :. And April sits in the window frame, hair damp, contemplating the disaster she expects her day to become. Phone Booth (2002)by Cynthia Fuchs[14.Jul.03] :. We're surrounded by spin all the time and I think that many times people who spin for a living really don't know the truth anymore because, I guess, they have to believe so much in the spin that they are spinning. Dawson’s Creek: The Complete First Seasonby Cynthia Fuchs[12.May.03] :. Dawson Leery is not what you'd call a headlong rusher. Phone Booth (2002)by Cynthia Fuchs[3.Apr.03] :. A function of increasing anxieties about security, surveillance technology, and loss of privacy, this sniper is symptomatic. Abandon (2002)by Cynthia Fuchs[18.Oct.02] :. Cynical and beautiful. No wonder the boys can't resist her. Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999)by Cynthia FuchsConsider the view of Kevin Williamson, presently king of all he surveys. As writer-thinker-upper of the first two Screams, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and the WB's hugely popular Dawson's Creek (and even given the failure of this past fall's network-offering, Wasteland), he has spread out before him a vast space of Yes. Wonder Boys (2000)by Todd R. RamlowCurtis Hanson's Wonder Boys is very much concerned with the boys its title declares (or, rather, with a certain sort of boyish behavior). More to the point, it actually seems to wonder, as we do and as the characters do, what is to be done with them. Wonder Boys (2000)by Jonathan BellerHey there. If you find yourself pushing on past middle age and wondering why all your potential has only gotten you just where you are and not one iota farther, then Curtis Hanson's new film Wonder Boys may be your sunset tonic. Dawson’s Creekby Rachel HylandAgonising over life decisions whilst looking hot is the hallmark of the teen drama. |
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