Articles tagged "meat loaf"![]() Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999 FeaturePart 3: The Sixth Sense to Fight Club (August - October 1999)by PopMatters Staff[25.Mar.09] :. Films that have left a lasting impression on their creators (M. Night Shyamalan, Sam Mendes, David Fincher) make up the majority of Part Three of our Films of 1999 overview. Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999 ![]() PopMatters Picks: The 50 DVDs Every Film Fan Should Own FeaturePart 5: The Return of the Auteurby PopMatters Staff[22.Jun.07] :. That noise you heard near the start of the new millennium was the creative din of a brash new breed of filmmakers tearing down the traditions of mainstream moviemaking. Their motion picture mission statements -- including the ones featured on this list -- remain the rulebook for new generations of anxious film artists. PopMatters Picks: The 50 DVDs Every Film Fan Should Own NewsJack Black’s father is ... Meat Loaf? Only in the moviesby Jeff Strickler [McClatchy Newspapers][20.Nov.06] :. For five years, Jack Black has been telling people he’d like to cast Meat Loaf as his father. “He never told me that,” Meat Loaf said. “But he told everyone else. So when he... ![]() Music ReviewMeat Loaf: Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell (Deluxe Edition)by Nikki Tranter[2.Dec.02] :. When a young singer with a bizarre moniker wandered into a New York theatre to audition for an up-and-coming composer, the universe, if for just a moment, was tilted at the right angle. The... ![]() Film ReviewFormula 51 (2001)by Cynthia Fuchs[18.Oct.02] :. In Ronny Yu's mostly formulaic Formula 51, Samuel L. Jackson plays Elmo McElroy, a chemical whiz busted for smoking reefer. ![]() Film ReviewFight Club (1999)by Jonathan Beller and Rhonda Baughman[14.Oct.99] :. Does capitalism have you by the balls? If you're feeling a little limp lately, a little flaccid, emasculated, or impotent, then David Fincher's Fight Club may just have your number. This film kicks butt, and in doing so it also manages to suggest that your need for it and for other butt-kicking films is a late capitalist symptom of contemporary psychosis. Crazy in Alabama (1999)by Anne Daugherty, rating: 5.0Crazy in Alabama concerns two concurrent stories, which take place in small town Alabama in the mid '60s. One centers on the inhumanity and injustice of segregation, while the other tells of a woman following her dream, even though it means killing her husband and deserting her children to do so. |
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