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The Black List: Vol. 2

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Feb.09] :. The sheer beauty of the images creates its own sort of narrative, a visual demonstration of The Black List's original impetus to recover the typically "negative" denomination of the "black list" and reframe it as positive and inspiring.

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Laurence Fishburne puts his fingerprints on America’s most popular TV drama

by Neal Justin [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)]

[2.Feb.09] :. LOS ANGELES - During a press conference last month on the sprawling set of “CSI,” a journalist with obviously little regard for his own well-being asked Laurence Fishburne if he was...

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Laurence Fishburne steps in to save CBS’ top-rated series ‘CSI’

by Rick Bentley [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[14.Jan.09] :. LOS ANGELES - After Jan. 15, Gil Grissom’s bug-studying, evidence-sorting, murder-solving ways come to an end on “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.” William Petersen, who has played...

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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Dec.08] :. Even if CSI won't articulate its race politics, the introduction of Laurence Fishburne into this whiter-than-white team of investigators can't help but call up memories of the long-troubled Warrick (Gary Dourdan).

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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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PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007 Feature

Digital Dynamite: The 30 Best DVDs of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[25.Jan.08] :. It was the year of the behemoth box set, the multi-disc triumph that tried to give long suffering fans everything their demanding little digital hearts ever desired. Here are PopMatters' 30 picks for the best DVDs of the year.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

by 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.

Writer takes another ‘Fantastic’ voyage

by Jeff Strickler [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)]

[18.Jun.07] :. The call to Mark Frost from his agent in 2003 started out, “This might seem like a crazy idea ...” The agent was suggesting that he think about writing the script for the live-action...

The Silver Surfer finally lands on summer movie screens

by Bobby Bryant [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[18.Jun.07] :. He’s a Christ figure on a flying surfboard. A chrome-plated philosopher. A herald of doom. The Oscar statuette come to life. Marvel Comics’ Silver Surfer has been many things to many...

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Jun.07] :. At the start of Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, the now incorporated superheroes are negotiating endorsement contracts.

Monkey Business (Part 2: June)

by Bill Gibron

[2.May.07] :. Apparently, as the sun's strongest rays finally settle over the movie going public, sequels are the remedy to cool down an overheated demographic. This month alone holds five examples of such redux refreshment. The rest of the choices are a variety pack of genres, ideas and possibilities.

Bobby (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."

Cowabunga! ‘TMNT’ rules

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

[26.Mar.07] :. All it took to conquer 300 indomitable Spartan warriors was four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. “TMNT,” the animated green guys’ return to the big screen after 14 years in...

TMNT (2007)

by Daynah Burnett

[23.Mar.07] :. The CGI allows the Turtles to have facial expressions, though here these mostly range from angsty to angstier.

Bobby (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Nov.06] :. With Kennedy serving as a symbol for what might have been, Bobby illustrates the problems he identifies.

Mission Impossible III (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.May.06] :. A movie titled M:I:III can't lean too hard on verbal wit, and so it quickly leaves Laurence Fishburne behind to head out into the actionated field.

Akeelah and the Bee (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Apr.06] :. It is in her relationships with other kids that Akeelah becomes unusual even within her formula film.

Assault 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.

Osmosis Jones (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Who would have guessed it? Living inside inveterate white guy Frank (Bill Murray) is a company of black folks.

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.

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.