Articles tagged "kevin spacey"

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David Letterman and Twitter: Kevin Spacey can’t make ‘Late Show’ host a follower

by Rob Manker [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[23.Jul.09] :. What has 140 characters or less and no Letterman? Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey talked up Twitter during a witty exchange Tuesday night on “The Late Show with David Letterman” but...

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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

 

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

Part 3: The Sixth Sense to Fight Club (August - October 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[25.Mar.09] :. Films that have left a lasting impression on their creators (M. Night Shyamalan, Sam Mendes, David Fincher) make up the majority of Part Three of our Films of 1999 overview.

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

 

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Kevin Spacey, Sam Mendes align for Bridge Project

by Linda Winer [Newsday (MCT)]

[24.Jan.09] :. NEW YORK - Theater people have talked forever about the pros and cons of having a national theater. Does America need one? Where would it be? Might it not suck the energy and money from resident...

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TV Review

Recount

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.May.08] :. Recount doesn't quite argue that the system remains infinitely gameable for those who know it, those in power who wish to remain in power.

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Film Review

21

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Mar.08] :. Even if card counting is legal, this gangster-style brutality plainly cannot be, yet it provides long minutes of hackneyed menace, a B-movie plot point that only underlines 21's unoriginality.

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For rapper/actor Ludacris, giving back is a major role

by Kelley L. Carter [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[12.Nov.07] :. CHICAGO—Chris “Ludacris” Bridges can’t stop laughing. A rapper with a powerful vocal delivery, he keeps envisioning his big head on a little person’s body, going...

 

Fred Claus

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Nov.07] :. What is Ludacris doing in this movie?

 

Superman Returns (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Jun.06] :. Superman has seen the aftermath of world destruction, and he's come back with a perspective not quite so boldly idealistic or pompously ideological.

 

Beyond the Sea (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Dec.04] :. Kevin Spacey looks alternately fatigued and awkward as Bobby Darin.

 

The United States of Leland (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Sep.04] :. Leland meets a teacher who's been tending to young hard cases for too long.

 

The United States of Leland (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[1.Apr.04] :. Leland will come to be instructive and redemptive for others, just as he has tried to find instruction and redemption in others.

 

The Life of David Gale (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Feb.03] :. Only Clint Eastwood could have cooked up a more dramatic climax to an innocent-man-on-death-row plot, which he did, in True Crime.

 

The Shipping News (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Quoyle is yet another of Kevin Spacey's damaged souls, but a nice one.

 

Pay It Forward (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Such heavy-handed plot designing and telegraphing makes the film more tedious than rousing.

 

K-PAX (2001)

by Todd R. Ramlow

K-PAX trots out all the old cliches about humanity's barbarism, intolerance, and generalicky-ness. Yeah, we know, we're all a bunch of spoiled brats.

 

The Big Kahuna (2000)

by Tobias Peterson

The story of the angst-ridden salesman struggling with his past, coping with regret and searching for meaning in life is a tale that audiences have heard and seen many times before. Multiple versions...

 

American Beauty (1999)

by Rhonda Baughman

My jaw slackened, my senses were jolted, and I managed to forget about the world outside the movie theater for a few hours. Yeah, I also managed to “look closer” as the tag line for...