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‘Hunger’ director explores Maze Prison hunger strike of ‘81

by Steven Rea [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[23.Apr.09] :. When he was 11, living with his mother in a West London flat, Steve McQueen saw the images on the TV news. There was the photograph of Irish Republican Army leader Bobby Sands, and there was the...

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Hunger

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Mar.09] :. The focus of Hunger is emphatically the death of Bobby Sands, specifically, what happens to his body, viewed from a tragic outside and, to an imaginative extent, a determined inside.

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Zack Attack

by Bill Gibron

[11.Feb.09] :. How did he do it? How did Zack Snyder go from motion picture no one (well, he did direct a Michael Jordan documentary short and a Morrissey video) to helmer of hits like Dawn of the Dead and...

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Sands’ Saga Makes One ‘Hunger’ For More

by Bill Gibron

[6.Dec.08] :. “The Troubles” - what a calm, contemplative way of describing the dire and often deadly confrontation between the government of England and the independence movement in Ireland. In truth,...

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Three Hundred

by Marisa LaScala

[13.Aug.07] :. 300's penchant for drama and exaggeration is proof that a far-reaching vision and hyperbole can come together to tell a much better story than one based purely on historical facts.

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Spartan Spectators

by Andrea Tallarita

[14.Jun.07] :. The earnestness of 300 assaults reality so effectively that it ends up destroying myth.

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Hex - The Complete First Season

by Jack Patrick Rodgers

[4.Jun.07] :. Hex is more than just raging hormones and gothic clichés.

 

Iranian exiles see film ‘300’ as an attempt to vilify Persians

by Vik Jolly [The Orange County Register (MCT)]

[22.Mar.07] :. The Hollywood blockbuster “300” has fueled conversations in the Iranian exile community across the United States, even spawning demands for an apology from the film’s...

 

300 (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Mar.07] :. Spartans! Simple and resonant, this call to identity comes up frequently in 300, the film based on Frank Miller's graphic novel.

 

The PopMatters ‘Short Ends & Leader’ Spring Film Preview

by Bill Gibron

[2.Mar.07] :. In order to separate the worthy from the worthless, PopMatters' "Short Ends & Leader" editor is highlighting 10 new films he's looking forward to this spring.