Articles tagged "lindsay lohan"

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Chapter 27

by Cynthia Fuchs

[27.Mar.08] :. The unsurprising punchline for Chapter 27 is that Mark David Chapman can't know what he's become.

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Super Duper Bad: The Worst Films of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[11.Jan.08] :. From Good Luck Chuck to Julie Taymor's ill-advised Beatlesque '60s tribute Across the Universe, PopMatters presents the dreck of 2007.

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

 

Film Review

I Know Who Killed Me

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Aug.07] :. Even if you accept the premise that viewers want to see their celebrities punished, the violence against Aubrey is extreme.

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REVIEW: I Know Who Killed Me

by Colin Covert [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)]

[28.Jul.07] :. The meltdown soap opera that is Lindsay Lohan seems to have found its metaphor in “I Know Who Killed Me.” In this odious crime thriller, Lohan plays a lewd, pill-popping entertainer of...

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Film Review

Georgia Rule (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.May.07] :. Careless and predictable, Georgia Rule offers up the abuse victim's "sexy" acting out as alternately beguiling and blameworthy.

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Jane Fonda returns to the big screen in ‘Georgia Rule’

by Barry Koltnow [The Orange County Register (MCT)]

[10.May.07] :. Jane Fonda, who continues to apologize for her “thoughtless, but not treasonous” actions during the Vietnam War, said she feels sorry for the people who cannot let go of their hatred for...

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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.

 

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."

 

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.

 

A Prairie Home Companion (2006)

by Michael Buening

[16.Oct.06] :. That a down home jamboree could be interesting to heavy-metal loving middle school students speaks to its wide.

 

Just My Luck (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Aug.06] :. The relation of luck to popularity, success, victory, and happiness is all a "look," it seems, an illusion that allows you to resign to the fact that you'll never live Lohan's life.

 

A Prairie Home Companion (2006)

by Matt Mazur

[9.Jun.06] :. A Prairie Home Companion combines typical Altman strategies, like overlapping dialogue and converging multiple storylines, as well as his fanatical appreciation for the process of creating art.

 

A Prairie Home Companion (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Jun.06] :. You might call A Prairie Home Companion an unlikely Lindsay Lohan movie. You could also call it the best work she's done, the best work she's likely to do, or the best chance she's had to do good work.

 

Just My Luck (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.May.06] :. Promoted as Lohan's 'transition' piece, as she moves from tweeny larks to so-called adult roles, Just My Luck is neither larkish nor serious, but only graceless.

 

Lindsay Lohan: A Little More Personal (Raw)

by Whitney Strub

[21.Dec.05] :. Second coming of the girl who wants to come first threatens to leave listeners frigid.

 

Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Oct.05] :. Angela Robinson says the movie shows the 'scope and the joy of being a contender, more than winning, necessarily.' That Herbie allows this 'scope and joy' for a girl driver is mostly delightful.

 

Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Jun.05] :. Whether or not you believe any angle of Lindsay Lohan's ever new image, she's certainly learned how to recycle, a useful skill in her chosen profession.

 

Mean Girls (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Sep.04] :. Concerns Cady's transformation, as she's subjected to high school and the 'mean girls' who prowl its corridors.

 

Mean Girls (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[29.Apr.04] :. In Girl World, as in any feral environment, 'When you get bitten by a snake, you're supposed to suck the poison out.'"

 

Freaky Friday (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Dec.03] :. Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan bring an appealing mutual affection to the remake of Freaky Friday.

 

Freaky Friday (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Aug.03] :. It's good to see Jamie Lee Curtis acting like a 15-year-old.