Articles tagged "kirsten dunst"

The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview Feature

Summer of Same: July 2009

by Bill Gibron

[29.Apr.09] :. In a rare attempt at novelty, July jets along with only Harry Potter and the Ice Age crew sampling continuing series spoils. The rest provide unknown pleasures.

The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview

 
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Short Ends and Leader

Spidey, Oedipus, Jesus, & Platonic Love

by Diepiriye Kuku

[30.Mar.09] :. Spider-man III was by far the most exciting Hollywood political critique of the Bush doctrine, reiterating the value of dialogue, cooperation and coalition.

Short Ends and Leader

 

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

Part 2: The Virgin Suicides to The Blair Witch Project (May - August 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[24.Mar.09] :. In Part Two of our look at the most memorable films of 1999, we experience music, foul-mouthed mayhem, and a late, great auteur's final cinematic statement.

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

 

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How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Oct.08] :. As you and Alison wait for Sidney to come around, How to Lose Friends & Alienate People loses its way.

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The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview Feature

Talk, Talk, Talk: October 2008

by Bill Gibron

[10.Sep.08] :. What studio suit thought this was a good idea? With four months to schedule your high priced efforts, you instead unload almost 30 overpriced pictures on an unsuspecting movie audience.

The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview

 

Column: The Box Office Belletrist

The Lisbon Bunch

by Jennifer Makowsky

[14.Jun.07] :. Purposefully ending one's life is often seen as a last act of personal desperation. But in Jefferey Eugenides' poignant, bewitching novel, it may actually be a form of salvation.

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Almighty Spidey spins out records

by Joe Gould and David Hinckley [New York Daily News (MCT)]

[7.May.07] :. Spider-Man spent the weekend spinning a worldwide web of pure gold. “Spider-Man 3,” bringing back Tobey Maguire as the red-suited comic hero Peter Parker and Kirsten Dunst as his...

 

Spider-Man 3 (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[4.May.07] :. The point of Spider-Man 3, underscored by all the posters, trailers, and buzz, is black Spidey.

 

A Guide to All Things Spider-Man

by Aaron Sagers, Ethan Alter, Kelly Federico [The Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.) (MCT)]

[2.May.07] :. Before you see Spider-Man 3, there's a few things you should know about the spider's lair. So go ahead, get tangled up in this extensive guide to Spider-Man's wonderful world-wide web.

 

Spider-Man returns for a bigger-than-ever third film

by Terry Lawson [Detroit Free Press (MCT)]

[1.May.07] :. The problem with the present? All anyone wants to talk about is the future. At least that’s the case with director Sam Raimi and the cast of Spider-Man 3, which opens nationwide...

 

Monkey Business (Part 1: May)

by Bill Gibron

[1.May.07] :. Talk about frontloading your approach. Each week in this first full month of patented popcorn movies finds another famous franchise icon making a major blockbuster bow. Only truly disastrous results from these guaranteed crowd-pleasers will keep the coffers from clogging with cash.

 

Spider-Man 2.1 - Unrated, Extended Cut (2004)

by Bill Gibron

[27.Apr.07] :. While Spider-Man 2.1 may add a few more dollars to the company coffers, it's definitely not doing the Spider Man series – or the digital domain – any real favors.

 

Marie Antoinette (2006)

by Jake Meaney

[19.Apr.07] :. Marie Antoinette's veneer is so impregnably varnished, so buffed to such an imposing sheen, that any attempt at critical ingress either bounces off of or slides down its glossy façade.

 
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Marie Antoinette (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Oct.06] :. A girl made queen by the peculiar forces of 18th-century statecraft, Marie is by turns amused, alarmed, and pissed off, mercurial and imperious as only a teenager can be.

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Elizabethtown: Widescreen Special Collector’s Edition (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Feb.06] :. The DVD of Elizabethtown is called the Widescreen Special Collector's Edition, though there's not one thing special about it.

 

Elizabethtown (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Oct.05] :. Cameron Crowe's Elizabethtown does not know how to end.

 

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Dec.04] :. Uncomfortable with his abilities (they have come on him like a virus), Peter repeatedly returns to his central question: Who am I?"

 

Wimbledon (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Sep.04] :. Theirs is an altogether formulaic affair -- complete with wishing on comets, lolling by fountains, running from paparazzi.

 

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.Jul.04] :. Though Spider-Man plainly enjoys saving kids from danger and even instructing them ('Hey you guys! No playing in the street'), he also longs for a more regular, selfish life.

 

Spider-Man: Deluxe Edition (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Jun.04] :. On screen, Spider-Man necessarily becomes more literal, less imaginative.

 

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Mar.04] :. At once abstract and heartfelt, sincere and weirdly charming, the film unhinges conventions of linear narrative along with romantic comedy.

 

Mona Lisa Smile (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Mar.04] :. Berkley-educated, Katherine is a 'forward thinker,' a 'bohemian' who believes that education opens doors.

 

Mona Lisa Smile (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Dec.03] :. Katherine has her hands full, even aside from looking for romance (though this happens too, as this is, after all, a Julia Roberts movie).

 

Levity (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[25.Aug.03] :. 'Levity' is by no means a standard Hollywood movie.'"

 

Levity (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Apr.03] :. Memory is a tricky business. So are movies that mess with it.

 

Spider-Man (2002)

by Todd R. Ramlow

[2.May.02] :. Spider-Man doesn't get caught up in its own snazzy special effects.

 

The Cat’s Meow (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[25.Apr.02] :. 'The Cat's Meow' insists, you can't go back to the good old days, because they were never so good as you think they were.

 

The Virgin Suicides (1999)

by Todd R. Ramlow

And yet, for its many pleasures, I find myself conflicted in thinking about The Virgin Suicides.

 

The Virgin Suicides (1999)

by Cynthia Fuchs

It's hardly a new idea, to read into adolescent girls' suicide something poetic, passionate, and deeply meaningful. Neither is it a secret that countless girls have admired Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton, Joni Mitchell and Tracy Chapman, seeing in their wounded and inviolate art reflections of themselves, their own pain and enchantment.

 

crazy/beautiful (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

From the start of John Stockwell's 'crazy/beautiful', Nicole is set up to be both typical and freaky, the kind of adolescent girl you've seen in a million other high school and/or 'crazy white girl' movies.

 

Bring It On (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Now this is a surprise: Bring It On is, at some not-quite-invisible sublevel, about white thievery of black cultural forms and content.