Articles tagged "keanu reeves"

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

Part 1: The Thin Red Line to Star Wars Episode I (January - May 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[23.Mar.09] :. The first part of PopMatters' look back at the films of 1999 is bookended by the long awaited return of two cinematic auteurs of wildly different styles, Terrence Malick and George Lucas.

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

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Obama & More Critical Commentary on Cultural Imperialism in 2008’s ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still’

by Diepiriye Kuku

[28.Jan.09] :. The Day the Earth Stood Still was rich in contemporary and relevant social criticism despite the regurgitating an apocalypse narrative and re-hashing Keanu Reeves as another prophetic savior.

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Film Review

The Day the Earth Stood Still

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Dec.08] :. On its face, casting Keanu Reeves as Klaatu, that most thoughtful visitor from another planet, seems inspired. Or maybe just obvious.

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The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview Feature

Talk, Talk, Talk: December 2008

by Bill Gibron

[12.Sep.08] :. Just like the end of an inspiring speech that may or may not succeed in making its point, these final four weeks before 2009 tend to define or defeat the entire awards season purpose.

The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview

Film Review

Street Kings

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Apr.08] :. In Street Kings, Tom (Keanu Reeves) is puffy and surly, Neo if he hadn't met Trinity, Neo unsaved.

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Film DVD Review

Bram Stokers Dracula

by Adam Besenyodi

[5.Oct.07] :. Coppola's take on Bram Stoker's masterpiece is a visual stunning feast worth revisiting in a Collector's Edition that is more than just a time capsule.

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Part 5: The Return of the Auteur

by PopMatters Staff

[22.Jun.07] :. That noise you heard near the start of the new millennium was the creative din of a brash new breed of filmmakers tearing down the traditions of mainstream moviemaking. Their motion picture mission statements -- including the ones featured on this list -- remain the rulebook for new generations of anxious film artists.

Future Shock: The Death of Serious Science Fiction

by Bill Gibron

[29.May.07] :. The serious Science Fiction film genre is dead or at least on cinematic life support. As the new millennial marches forward, and an omnipresent production paradigm that substitutes spectacle for smarts, futurist filmmaking is definitely gasping for breath.

The Pay Off: The Best Film of 2006

by PopMatters Staff

[11.Jan.07] :. For many of the movies on PopMatters' 2006 list of the year's best films, it is clear that a heavy personal and professional stake was riding on the final product.

A Scanner Darkly (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.Jul.06] :. Simultaneously strange and familiar, not himself, Bob lives inside an ooky, unsolvable world that mirrors our own ongoing fears, of surveillance, loss, and forgetting.

The Lake House (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Jun.06] :. Shuffled around amid a series of very pretty split screens and unmoored voiceovers, Alex and Kate must create a relationship out of very contrived air.

Bill & Ted’s Most Excellent Collection (2005)

by John G. Nettles

[21.Jul.05] :. Bill and Ted have barely a brain between them and speak in brilliantly realized Surferese: they're that guy you know who still snickers at the double entendres in Van Halen album titles.

My Own Private Idaho: Criterion Collection (1991)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Mar.05] :. Mike and Scott live a strangely lyrical credence. Simultaneously inviting and resisting interpretation, they move on.

Constantine (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Feb.05] :. Doubting his mission and his faith even as he's consumed by them, Constantine is an achingly topical comic book/movie hero.

Something’s Gotta Give (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Mar.04] :. Something's Gotta Give is best when it backs off the cute dialogue and the actors create their own moments.

Something’s Gotta Give (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Dec.03] :. Overstays its welcome, yes, but worse, it pretends like it's news when it isn't.

Matrix Revolutions (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Nov.03] :. 'Why, Mr. Anderson?'asks Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving), for what seems the umpteenth time.

The Matrix Reloaded (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.May.03] :. Morpheus is a stanch warrior and provocative thinker, as well as a black man in a world where the machines' agents tend to be white men in suits.

The Watcher (2000)

by Paul Varner

You’d better look out your window, not too obviously, but very carefully. He may be watching you. He’s out there, always out there, waiting and watching. Particularly if you happen to be...

The Watcher (2000)

by Mike Ward

You might be old enough to remember those heady years when local theaters played Friday the 13th triple features and there were occasional midnight screenings of April Fools Day at one...

Sweet November (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

It's clear in that Hollywood way that Sara's charms are primarily based on the fact that she is glamour girl Charlize Theron in thrift-store drag... stunningly beautiful meets endearingly peculiar.

The Replacements (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

The Replacements' particular spin on the relationship between unions and management is simplistic and, more often than not, spurious.

The Replacements (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

The Replacements' particular spin on the relationship between unions and management is simplistic and, more often than not, spurious.

Hardball (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

The fact that Hardball's Conor is white means nothing, of course, except that he's one in a long line of white characters who become 'better people' because they meet adorable, courageous, noble, and/or doomed minority characters.

The Gift (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Sam Raimi's new scary movie isn't nearly scary enough.