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Articles tagged "laurence fishburne" Film Review21by 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. Featured Article DVD Film ReviewHearts of Darkness: A Filmmakers Apocalypseby George Tiller[19.Dec.07] :. The openness and honesty with which Eleanor Coppola portrays her husband is by far the greatest asset of Hearts of Darkness.  DVD Film ReviewFantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surferby Bill Gibron[28.Nov.07] :. Not every comic book movie is geared toward the nearing middle aged geek - something naysayers of the Fantastic Four franchise fail to comprehend.  Film ReviewFantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surferby Cynthia Fuchs[15.Jun.07] :. At the start of Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, the now incorporated superheroes are negotiating endorsement contracts.  DVD Film ReviewBobby (2006)by Cynthia Fuchs[16.Apr.07] :. As reporter Warren Wilson remembers, "That would have been less of an impact on me, had I been shot [as he nearly was], than Kennedy being killed, stopped, in a moment in America's history, when we needed him and his advocacy more than ever before."  Film ReviewAssault on Precinct 13 (2005)by Cynthia Fuchs[21.Jan.05] :. What still works is the edgy distrust-into-respect that develops between the killer and the cop. Matrix Revolutions (2003)by Cynthia Fuchs[10.Nov.03] :. 'Why, Mr. Anderson?'asks Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving), for what seems the umpteenth time. Mystic River (2003)by Cynthia Fuchs[9.Oct.03] :. While the film doesn't elucidate Jimmy's own violent past, it is clear that he hasn't had misgivings until now. 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. Biker Boyz (2003)by Cynthia Fuchs[31.Jan.03] :. Amid all the conventional movie dazzle, Biker Boyz's most important idea is the bike. Apocalypse Now Redux (2001)by Tobias Peterson'Apocalypse Now Redux', ultimately, allows us to celebrate a film that has become indelibly ingrained into American popular consciousness while, at the same time, forcing us to question the violence and inhumanity that characterize the troubling past of this same culture. Apocalypse Now Redux (2001)by Cynthia Fuchs'Apocalypse Now' -- 'Redux' or regular -- is well worth seeing for just such insights, its flashes of brilliance, failures, and virtuous intentions. In both versions, it's that rare movie that looks hard at the culture that produced it. Osmosis Jones (2001)by Cynthia FuchsWho would have guessed it? Living inside inveterate white guy Frank (Bill Murray) is a company of black folks. |
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