Articles tagged "peter berg"

Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs Feature

Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs: Part 3

by PopMatters Staff

[16.Oct.08] :. Day Three - The final ten, a cross-culture collection teeming with big ideas, larger than life visions, and perhaps the greatest documentary on rugby you've probably never heard of.

Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs

 

News

Unheroic superhero appealed to director ‘Hancock’ director Peter Berg

by Steven Rea [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[3.Jul.08] :. “I loved the idea of an alcoholic, nihilistic, subversive superhero, fighting crime drunk,” says Peter Berg about “Hancock” - a screenplay that’s been kicking around...

PopWire

 

Film Review

Hancock

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.Jul.08] :. John Hancock is a black superhero desired and derided by crowds who are informed by spectacles, stereotypes, and fear.

Recent Film reviews

 

Short Ends and Leader

‘Hancock’ Hampered by Schizophrenic Script

by Bill Gibron

[1.Jul.08] :. Will Smith is the new up to date version of the late in life career of Charleton Heston. No, he’s not some gun wielding NRA apologist who narrates Bible videos in between bouts with aging. As...

Short Ends and Leader

 

News

Iraq War-themed films can’t find an audience

by Soren Andersen [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[2.Jan.08] :. What if they made a war movie and nobody came to see it? No biggie. Individual films fail all the time for all kinds of reasons. Filmmaking is a crapshoot. Always has been. Always will be. The...

PopWire

 

News

In ‘Lions for Lambs,’ cool icon turns passionate political advocate

by Carrie Rickey [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[9.Nov.07] :. PHILADELPHIA—Sundance fever. Happens every time Robert Redford comes to the University of Pennsylvania. Back in `98, the president and deans panted like fangirls. This time, undergrads are...

PopWire

 

Lions for Lambs

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Nov.07] :. Though Lions barely considers the soldiers' choices, it's clear they've been egregiously misinformed, turned into terms in someone else's argument.

 

Today’s foreign wars are Hollywood hell

by Lewis Beale [Newsday (MCT)]

[9.Nov.07] :. This is not your grandfather’s war. This war is unpopular and controversial, seemingly endless. But that hasn’t stopped Hollywood from releasing a series of films about Iraq and its evil...

 

Redford says ‘Lions for Lambs’ isn’t just another Iraq war movie

by Rick Bentley [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[6.Nov.07] :. SAN FRANCISCO—Actor and political activist Robert Redford learned a lifelong lesson when he was a teenager. “At 18, I went to the University of Colorado. I was asked to leave after a...

 

A new script for Hollywood war movies

by Carrie Rickey [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[11.Oct.07] :. Anti-war demonstrators storm the Pentagon in the movie “Across the Universe.” A career soldier protests the Iraq conflict in “In the Valley of Elah.” The tactics of an elite...

 

Hollywood goes to war: Mainstream movies focus on Iraq, terrorism

by Cary Darling [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[1.Oct.07] :. Writer Matthew Michael Carnahan makes a living pounding out movie scripts, where flights of fantasy and retreats from reality are the daily stock in trade. But a couple of autumns back, while...

 

The Kingdom

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Sep.07] :. Boasting charismatic stars and a topical focus on terrorism, the film adds one more cagey detail -- a hint of moral challenge to its own thrills-and-chills violence.

 

Smokin Aces (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Jan.07] :. Smokin' Aces mashes together at least four movies, with all plots and characters spinning around a Vegas card trickster.

 

Friday Night Lights (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Oct.04] :. It's mostly about how football -- in this place, at this time -- overwhelms its adherents, apparently giving them something to live for but also sucking their lives from them.

 

Collateral (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Aug.04] :. Michael Mann's new film shows what anyone who's paid attention to Jamie Foxx has known for some time: he is excellent.

 

The Rundown (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[25.Sep.03] :. The Rock doesn't want to hurt 'em, but he just can't help it.

 

Corky Romano (2001)

by Kevin Devine

'Corky Romano' is a limp, set 'em up and knock 'em down barrage of hijinx and horseshit that proves definitively that Chris Kattan's shtick is barely big enough to carry a 90-second trailer, let alone a 90-minute movie.