Articles tagged "maya rudolph"

Film DVD Review

Away We Go

by Jesse Hassenger

[28.Sep.09] :. Another movie about and/or aimed at educated, self-aware 20-and-30-somethings, a certain portion of which, of course, hate nothing more than a movie trying to entertain them or depict them in any way.

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Film Review

Away We Go

by Tricia Olszewski

[12.Jun.09] :. Away We Go is breezy and summer-appropriate -- but its central couple still has problems.

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News

Maya Rudolph goes home for her new comedy film ‘Away We Go’

by Roger Moore [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)]

[5.Jun.09] :. Maya Rudolph would show up on the set, strap on the “gut” that made her look pregnant, and sit waiting for the first shot. But something about that one location, the old, weathered...

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The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview Feature

Summer of Same: June 2009

by Bill Gibron

[28.Apr.09] :. This month's "original" fare offers a take on a Sid and Marty Krofft classic, more battling seizure robots, and the retaking of '70s subway thriller. Everything old is new again.

The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview

 

TV Review

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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News

Acting legend Julie Andrews returns in Shrek the Third

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

[18.May.07] :. LOS ANGELES—PUBLICIST: “You’re not going to write that you watched the Kentucky Derby in Julie Andrews’ bedroom, are you?” JOURNALIST: “I wouldn’t do...

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Shrek the Third (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.May.07] :. Nothing looks to be ongoing so much as Shrek, except maybe the other sequel machines huffing and puffing this summer.

 

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.

 

Idiocracy (2006)

by Mike Ward

[2.Mar.07] :. A brilliantly conceived, but fitfully executed comedy about how bad things are likely to get if we keep going where we're going.

 

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.

 

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.