Articles tagged "michael gambon"

The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview Feature

Summer of Same: July 2009

by Bill Gibron

[29.Apr.09] :. In a rare attempt at novelty, July jets along with only Harry Potter and the Ice Age crew sampling continuing series spoils. The rest provide unknown pleasures.

The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview

 

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999 Feature

Part 4: All About My Mother to Sleepy Hollow (October - November 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[26.Mar.09] :. Outsiders and oddballs make up Part Four's formidable filmmakers, an idiosyncratic collection of dreamers and visionaries.

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

 

TV DVD Review

The Anton Chekhov Collection

by Jennifer Kelly

[25.Sep.08] :. A superbly acted, exhaustively complete summary of the great Russian’s dramas that provides real depth of insight into the plays and their possibilities.

Recent DVD reviews

 

Film Review

Brideshead Revisited

by Cynthia Fuchs

[25.Jul.08] :. The new Brideshead Revisited doesn't grapple much with Charles' disconcerting mix of nostalgia and odium regarding British aristocracy.

Recent Film reviews

 

The PopMatters Summer 2008 Movie Preview Feature

The Return of the Popcorn Circus: July 2008

by Bill Gibron

[30.Apr.08] :. And it just doesn't stop. If part two in this three-ring play was packed with well hyped product, July just keeps the receipt treats coming.

The PopMatters Summer 2008 Movie Preview

 

Film Review

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)

by Bill Gibron

[13.Jul.07] :. While one might question the viability of the franchise once Rowling releases the last Potter tome... Order of the Phoenix finds the series settling in quite nicely

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Rupert Grint is different from his ‘Harry Potter’ character

by Robert W. Butler [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[12.Jul.07] :. Sometimes an actor is so closely identified with a character that in the public’s eye he practically becomes the same person. In the case of Rupert Grint and Ron Weasley, the character Grint...

 

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Jul.07] :. Order of the Phoenix, for all its shortcomings, does make clear the sense of loss and struggle that comes with maturity.

 

Daniel Radcliffe talks ‘Harry Potter’

by Terry Lawson [Detroit Free Press (MCT)]

[11.Jul.07] :. Daniel Radcliffe has spent the years most young men reserve for rebellion being not only a superior role model for the millions of children who, like him, have grown up with Harry Potter, but also...

 

Monkey Business (Part 3: July)

by Bill Gibron

[3.May.07] :. Finally, a month with only one remaining series contender. All wizard based Potter-y aside, this will be the most tenuous time for the business called show. After a strong start, the eccentric collection of entertainments here could make or break this potentially record shattering motion picture season.

 

Amazing Grace (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Feb.07] :. The movie's thematic insistence on seeing takes shape through slavery, a horrible moral blight even if it's off-screen in the colonies and not in London with our heroes.

 

The Good Shepherd (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Dec.06] :. For Edward, the CIA forms a circular logic: members define the mission and vice versa.

 

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)

by Todd R. Ramlow

[18.Nov.05] :. It is sad, though perhaps 'realistic,' that the lesson of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is that all institutions and authority, Good or Evil, are corrupt.

 

Layer Cake (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[4.Oct.05] :. Daniel Craig ensures that you see XXXX's mind wheels turning as he confronts each new impasse.

 

Layer Cake (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.May.05] :. The hero of Layer Cake has no name. This matters less than you might think.

 

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou: Criterion Collection (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.May.05] :. 'That's what the movie's sort of about,' observes Wes Anderson, 'self-invention, and making their own art, and all those things.'"

 

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Jan.05] :. Kevin Conran seems pleased to admit that he has never stepped foot inside Radio City Music Hall.

 

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Dec.04] :. Wes Anderson's film and Steve's filmed life creak a little, exposing seams and efforts to make sense of experience.

 

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Sep.04] :. If the glorious surprise offered up by The Wizard of Oz was its depiction of a world beyond any material reality, the agreeable gimmick of Sky Captain is its imitation of what's come before.

 

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Jun.04] :. Director Alfonso Cuarón brings to the franchise a newly inventive sensibility, and, most important, an appreciation for smart cuts and brevity, especially the requisite Quidditch scene, mercifully short, dark, and stormy.

 

Open Range (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Aug.03] :. Kevin Costner's film assumes the usual mythology: the West 'died' when corporate thinking encroached on the boundless spirit of the cowboys.

 

Gosford Park (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[27.Jun.02] :. It is clear about what it is, a study of affect that is also affected.

 

Path to War

by Lesley Smith

[10.Jun.02] :. It attempts to rehabilitate Johnson (Michael Gambon) as a President whose considerable political and social policy achievements have been forever overshadowed by his escalation of the Vietnam War.

 

Sleepy Hollow (1999)

by P. Nelson Reinsch

When the Burgomaster (played by still great Horror film legend Christopher Lee) sends Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp) to Sleepy Hollow, you may suspect that Ichabod is being sent to the land of Hammer Horror, or perhaps the woods of Horror Movies Past.

 

Gosford Park (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

It is clear about what it is, a study of affect that is also affected.