Articles tagged "orlando bloom"![]() PopMatters Picks: The 50 DVDs Every Film Fan Should Own FeaturePart 5: The Return of the Auteurby PopMatters Staff[22.Jun.07] :. That noise you heard near the start of the new millennium was the creative din of a brash new breed of filmmakers tearing down the traditions of mainstream moviemaking. Their motion picture mission statements -- including the ones featured on this list -- remain the rulebook for new generations of anxious film artists. PopMatters Picks: The 50 DVDs Every Film Fan Should Own ![]() NewsTia Dalma of ‘Pirates’ was a role to dye forby Roger Moore [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)][25.May.07] :. Tia Dalma, the sultry, scary, tattooed voodoo priestess, played a pivotal role in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. But her part is vastly more important in the third film in... ![]() Film ReviewPirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End (2007)by Cynthia Fuchs[24.May.07] :. In the just-in-time for Memorial Day weekend Pirates sequel, Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) pursues pleasure with the sort of determination usually associated with moviegoers. ![]() The PopMatters Summer 2007 Movie Preview FeatureMonkey Business (Part 1: May)by Bill Gibron[1.May.07] :. Talk about frontloading your approach. Each week in this first full month of patented popcorn movies finds another famous franchise icon making a major blockbuster bow. Only truly disastrous results from these guaranteed crowd-pleasers will keep the coffers from clogging with cash. The PopMatters Summer 2007 Movie Preview ![]() Film ReviewPirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006)by Cynthia Fuchs[7.Jul.06] :. Demented and punctuated by Depp's scowls and "oofs," Jack Sparrow's stunty bits are mostly amusing and sometimes even surprising. ![]() Film DVD ReviewElizabethtown: Widescreen Special Collector’s Edition (2005)by Cynthia Fuchs[7.Feb.06] :. The DVD of Elizabethtown is called the Widescreen Special Collector's Edition, though there's not one thing special about it. Elizabethtown (2005)by Cynthia Fuchs[14.Oct.05] :. Cameron Crowe's Elizabethtown does not know how to end. Kingdom of Heaven (2005)by Cynthia Fuchs[6.May.05] :. As history, it is mightily revisionist -- a blacksmith named turns inadvertent defender of Jerusalem, devoted to the notion that Muslims and Christians can get along. Ned Kelly (2003)by Daniel Mudie Cunningham[7.Jun.04] :. Ned might have been a criminal in the eyes of the law, but to working class Australians he was a hero wrongly accused. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)by Cynthia Fuchs[18.Dec.03] :. No in-betweeners in this reductive view of the world: characters and choices are good or evil. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)by Cynthia Fuchs[15.Dec.03] :. Johnny Depp spent time learning to swordfight, so that Captain Jack Sparrow could be poised and everready -- in a word, the Muhammad Ali of swordfighters. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)by Cynthia Fuchs[10.Jul.03] :. Ingenious and mesmerizing, Johnny Depp embodies the film's essential fantasy, that a pirate's life is exciting and unfettered. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)by Cynthia Fuchs[19.Dec.02] :. It's useful to remember that, offscreen, both good and bad tend to be tricksy. |
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