Articles tagged "michael chiklis"

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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.

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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.

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The Shield

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Jan.06] :. The betrayals work in all directions at once.

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The Shield: Season 4

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Jan.06] :. Most of the brilliant fourth season is focused on the interplay of Vic with the two single-season 'heavyweights', Glenn Close as Captain Monica Rawling and Anthony Anderson as local kingpin Antwon Mitchell.

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Fantastic Four (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Dec.05] :. The superpowers bring trauma, anger, and confusion, and eventually a sense of responsibility, as the crew decides to do good with what they've got.

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Fantastic Four (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Jul.05] :. As Marvel comics fans already know, being zapped by a radioactive cloud in outer space alters your DNA according to your sense of self.

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The Shield

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Mar.05] :. Vic is the man in every way: mean, impulsive, voluble, in love with his authority but resentful too, resisting his own responsibility.

 

The Shield: Season 3

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Feb.05] :. The Shield's moral center perpetually shifts, as the Team members struggle to maintain their sense of balance, caught between the outright villains and their own dishonesty.

 

The Shield

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Mar.04] :. The Shield remains, shot for shot, TV's most compelling hour.

 

The Shield: The Complete Second Season

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.Feb.04] :. Recalling Michael Chiklis’ audition for The Shield, Shawn Ryan says, “When he left the room, it was like it had been vacuum-sealed.” It’s easy to imagine that seeing...

 

Spirited Away (2001/2002)

by Scott Thill

[3.Oct.02] :. America is better off with Miyazaki playing in the malls and the multiplexes than Monsters, Inc.

 

The Shield

by Cary O'Dell

[7.May.02] :. The success of 'The Shield' has doubtless upped the ante in regard to what networks will allow -- and resort to -- in order to gain ratings.

 

The Shield

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Jan.02] :. As played by new Emmy winner Michael Chiklis, Vic Mackey is casually racist and homicidal, by turns charismatic and appalling.

 

PopMatters - Television - Reviews - Daddio

by Dan French

The modern family is wonderfully fluid, apparently able to absorb any permutation of race, religion, gender, or class; its recombinations of conventional marriage or divorce, living together or...

 
 
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