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An Unlikely Weapon: The Eddie Adams Story

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Apr.09] :. An Unlikely Weapon remembers Eddie Adams as a pioneer, genius, and troublemaker, sharing his truths and challenging ours.

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‘Monsters’ voice role a first for Reese Witherspoon

by Rick Bentley [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[30.Mar.09] :. Animation offers a world of different challenges for actors. Tools like body movement, facial expressions and hand gestures are no longer available to sell a scene. At the same time, animation...

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‘Monsters vs. Aliens’ tops weekend box office

by MarketWatch [MarketWatch (MCT)]

[30.Mar.09] :. The 3-D animated film “Monsters vs. Aliens” was easily the top draw at U.S. movie theaters this weekend, bringing in some $58.2 million through Sunday morning, according to studio...

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Monsters vs. Aliens

by Renee Scolaro Mora

[27.Mar.09] :. Monsters vs. Aliens is both a spoof and celebration of mid-century creature features, offering positive, if well-worn, "messages for the kids."

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Great TV series aren’t easily duplicated

by Rick Kushman [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[25.Feb.09] :. We’ve hit the season when news from Hollywood about possible new fall shows gets the TV world all kaflubbered and jumping to overstatement by declaring trends. The declaration this year, from...

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Jack Bauer is at the head of the class of TV’s tragic heroes

by John Timpane [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[12.Jan.09] :. A distant explosion rings through the jungle. Jack Bauer, longtime protagonist of the Fox show “24,” stiffens, a spasm of muted pain on his face. One of his closest friends has just...

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24: Season Seven Premiere

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Jan.09] :. Jack's interrogation of the suspect Tony, on behalf of the Bureau, is vintage 24, full of close-up grimaces and slams into walls.

 

24: Redemption

by Jake Meaney

[8.Dec.08] :. Redemption manages to locate an emotional center than had been missing from 24 since…well, if not ever, since at least the first season.

 

24: Redemption

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Nov.08] :. In Africa, where children are forced to soldier, Jack realizes, every day is full of terror -- not just the 24-hour spates he's used to confronting.

 

Bright Lights, Big City: Special Edition

by Erik Hinton

[3.Sep.08] :. Even those who have not woken up in a druggy stupor will feel co-opted into the cast’s mired and destructive party lifestyle.

 

‘Mirrors’ Reflects Aja’s Rising Star

by Bill Gibron

[29.Aug.08] :. If we weren’t already aware of Hollywood’s brain dead inability to fashion such a conspiracy, one would swear that Tinsel Town was out to destroy horror once and for all. Their weapon of...

 

Mirrors

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Aug.08] :. While Ben's (Kiefer Sutherland) bouncing between selves is distracting, it's not nearly so irksome as Mirrors' general incoherence.

 

The Return of the Popcorn Circus: August 2008

by Bill Gibron

[1.May.08] :. Talk about a crowded schedule. There are more offerings scheduled this month than in the previous two combined.

 

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.

 

24 - Season 5

by Marco Lanzagorta

[26.Feb.07] :. Give me liberty or give me… another season of 24.

 

24: Day Six

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Jan.07] :. As 24's sixth day takes shape, it looks as though moral certainty isn't what it used to be.

 

I Trust You to Kill Me (2006)

by Jake Meaney

[8.Jan.07] :. Rocco DeLuca has sound that, at its best moments, seems hewed from the heart. The rest of the time, though, it's bloodless and dull.

 

The Sentinel (2006)

by Jake Meaney

[1.Sep.06] :. A woefully timid, allegedly paranoid, political thriller short on thrills, shorter on paranoia, and shortest on politics.

 

The Sentinel (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[1.Sep.06] :. The Sentinel thus sets up a conflict between two exceptionally earnest masculine icons -- Kiefer Sutherland and Michael DOuglas -- all furrowed brows and low-talking intensity.

 

The Sentinel (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Apr.06] :. I suppose if you're going to cast the deliriously overexposed Eva Longoria -- and give her a weapon, to boot -- you might as well make fun of the fact that you've done so.

 

24

by Cynthia Fuchs

[30.Jan.06] :. Nothing is ever quite what it looks like in 24, whose writers famously revise and rethink as each season barrels along.

 

24 - Season Four

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Dec.05] :. All this torture is variously named, always painful, sometimes inhumane treatments of suspects or folks with info they're afraid to give up. Most everyone in 24 works in a hurry.

 

Stand By Me: Deluxe Edition (1986)

by Nikki Tranter

[18.Apr.05] :. Stand By Me is always worth celebrating.

 

24

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Jan.05] :. Another season, another sad bad day in Jack Bauer's boystown.

 

24: Season 3

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.Dec.04] :. When playing Jack Bauer, Kiefer Sutherland observes, 'Everything that's happening at any given moment is more important than anything else in the world.'

 

The Lost Boys: Special Edition (1987)

by Nikki Tranter

[13.Oct.04] :. While director Joel Schumacher may not have made a perfectly genre-breaking, horror-comedy mix, he got the 'hip' part right.

 

Taking Lives (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Mar.04] :. In Taking Lives, the enigmatic Illeana (Angelina Jolie) is introduced indirectly.

 

24: Season 2

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Sep.03] :. 'This is a red meat show. People kill people and go eat a sandwich right after.'

 

To End All Wars (2001)

by Nikki Tranter

[23.Jan.03] :. Explores separate and collective struggles to survive, the prisoners' strengths and weaknesses.

 

24

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Nov.02] :. 'Fiction' and 'reality' aren't so much opposites as they are of a piece.

 

24

by Jonathan Beebe

At 12:38:54 a.m., Jack's somewhat estranged wife accidentally breaks what looks to be a really nice coffee cup.