Articles tagged "michael ealy"

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‘Miracle at St. Anna,’ ‘Frozen River’ two of 2008’s best

by Bruce Dancis [McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)]

[10.Feb.09] :. Two of the most powerful films of 2008, movies that stay with you long after their final credits roll by, are out this week on DVD. Yet “Miracle at St. Anna” and “Frozen...

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Hollywood, race and the Age of Obama

by Christopher Kelly [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[26.Dec.08] :. Gook. Dragon lady. Swamp rats. These are but a few of the cringe-inducing racial epithets spewed by Clint Eastwood’s Walt Kowalski in “Gran Torino,” the cringe-inducing new drama...

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Film Review

Seven Pounds

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Dec.08] :. Equally afflicted by an old-school weepies affect and new-agey self-righteousness, Seven Pounds is by turns clumsy and overbearing.

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Column: The Screener

Exquisite Agony

by Chris Barsanti

[18.Dec.08] :. This holiday season, Mickey Rourke (in The Wrestler) and Will Smith (Seven Pounds) suffer for all us sinners.

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Short Ends and Leader

Tearjerker Given a Post-Modern Make-Over in ‘Pounds’

by Bill Gibron

[18.Dec.08] :. If there is one genre that’s in desperate need of a post-modern make-over, it’s the tearjerker. Comedy gets retrofitted every few years, while the action film scours the globe for as much...

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Column: The Screener

Why, Spike, Why?

by Chris Barsanti

[17.Oct.08] :. For all of Spike Lee's status as the eternal Young Turk, he's also a moviemaker who came of age just a few years after the brat pack of Spielberg, Scorsese, de Palma, et al.

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Miracle at St. Anna

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Sep.08] :. Spike Lee's answer to the many WWII movies that have left out the experiences of black soldiers, Miracle at St. Anna is ambitious and ardent.

 

‘Miracle’ Is Engrossing if Uneven

by Bill Gibron

[25.Sep.08] :. Spike Lee has a big mouth. It’s a good thing he’s so talented, since he often loves to write confrontational checks that his filmmaking sometimes can’t cash. When Clint Eastwood...

 

Talk, Talk, Talk: December 2008

by Bill Gibron

[12.Sep.08] :. Just like the end of an inspiring speech that may or may not succeed in making its point, these final four weeks before 2009 tend to define or defeat the entire awards season purpose.

 

Talk, Talk, Talk: September 2008

by Bill Gibron

[9.Sep.08] :. From wars both past and present to a number of nail-biting thrillers, September is sizing up as a potentially profitable one.

 

Sleeper Cell

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Dec.06] :. As Darwyn and Farik cat-and-mouse their way to an inevitable showdown, their stakes turn sensationally and reductively personal.

 

Sleeper Cell

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Jan.06] :. Both terrorist and FBI agent mean to win, even when the costs are too great to bear.

 

Barbershop: DVD Collector’s Set (2002/2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Nov.04] :. The Barbershop movies focus their energies on familial feelings and communal inclinations, and Cedric's wily jokes.

 

Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Jun.04] :. Eddie (Cedric the Entertainer) comes to understand a new place for himself, and, no small thing, frames an acutely political history by his own story.

 

Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Feb.04] :. These first five minutes grant Eddie and the barbershop some specific background, of resistance and community.

 

Barbershop (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Sep.02] :. Barbershop's multiple charms are all sweet.