Articles tagged "kevin mckidd"

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

 

Film Review

Made of Honor

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.May.08] :. If she lived in another movie, you'd almost feel sorry for Hannah (Michelle Monaghan). But she's trapped in the execrable Made of Honor, which insists that she behave nearly as inanely as her two suitors.

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The PopMatters Summer 2008 Movie Preview Feature

The Return of the Popcorn Circus: May 2008

by Bill Gibron

[28.Apr.08] :. In the first act of this four-part production, Tinsel Town decides to do some unbelievable front loading. Will there be room for independent offerings, or former HBO carnal comedy divas? Who knows? Without a doubt, it's an interesting way to start the season.

The PopMatters Summer 2008 Movie Preview

 

TV Review

Journeyman

by Lesley Smith

[24.Sep.07] :. No amount of philosophical study or science fiction reading would enable a viewer to disentangle the existential questions raised by its cavalier treatment of time, so Journeyman simply pretends they do not exist.

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News

Kevin McKidd travels through time in NBC series ‘Journeyman’

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

[13.Sep.07] :. Scottish actor Kevin McKidd is no stranger to time travel. He was 8 years old when he thrust himself into the future at first sight of the film, “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.” McKidd...

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Film Review

Hannibal Rising (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Feb.07] :. Hannibal's executions of the "primal scene" cannibals reveal his inclination for bizarre yuckiness.

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Rome

by Todd R. Ramlow

[17.Jan.07] :. The lofty political rhetoric disguising base power-grabbing in Rome is all too familiar in a contemporary US context.

 

Rome

by Michael Buening

[28.Nov.05] :. If there is a civics lesson to be gleaned from Rome, it is to beware the passions inflamed by a government in the midst of an identity crisis.

 

Rome

by Ryan Vu

[14.Sep.05] :. Lest one fear the consequences of amoral political realism get a watered-down treatment, Rome proves steadfast -- eager, even -- in its refusal to skimp on detail.

 

Topsy Turvy (1999)

by Josh Jones

British director Mike Leigh has turned out a string of critically lauded short and feature length films, as well as a number of television films for the BBC. He is perhaps best known on this side of...