Articles tagged "miguel ferrer"

TV DVD Review

Crossing Jordan: Season 1

by B.J. Carter

[30.Jun.08] :. This star-vehicle about a dysfunctional forensic pathologist, alas, doesn’t burn too brightly.

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TV Review

Bionic Woman

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Sep.07] :. The new Bionic Woman is all about broken families and personal traumas. And oh yes, secret government plots, super-max prisons, and pheromones.

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Film DVD Review

The Manchurian Candidate (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Dec.04] :. Demme's movie reasserts that the fabled U.S. political landscape isn't transparent or democratic, but instead, corrupted by the individuals who manage it.

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RoboCop Trilogy (1987/1990/1993)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Aug.04] :. Strikingly, RoboCop's political insights are as timely today as on its release in 1987.

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The Manchurian Candidate (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[30.Jul.04] :. The Manchurian Candidate draws a line between the corporation and the government, sustaining a hope that the U.S. system might be salvaged by an honestly free election.

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TV Review

Crossing Jordan / Philly

by Lesley Smith

Here are two shows that lift their premises, plotlines, and even their personality quirks from tv past and present, fritter away the skills of good actors, and lock skilled writers and producers into tired formulae.

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