Articles tagged "peter coyote"

Film Feature

Life Into Art: Strange Culture and the Measure of Documentary Film

by Shaun Huston

[14.Aug.08] :. Strange Culture is a critical entry point into the current discussion of what makes a documentary a documentary, most notably because it announces its own subjectivity in a clear and provocative way.

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Film DVD Review

Commune

by Michael Buening

[31.Oct.07] :. Commune's most irritating habit is to render quaint the complicated elements of the commune’s history, while leaving the most dramatic issues unexplored.

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Film Review

Strange Culture

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Oct.07] :. Strange Culture presents Kurtz's bizarre legal and political predicament within layers of context, having to do with fears of terrorism and art, the Patriot Act and U.S. prosecutorial zealousness.

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TV Review

The Inside

by Mary Colgan

[12.Jul.05] :. It's hard not to hope that The Inside will be a replacement for Buffy, especially since creator Tim Minear is connected to the Buffyverse.

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TV DVD Review

The 4400: The Complete First Season

by Marco Lanzagorta

[3.Jan.05] :. The 4400 intimates that most of the returnees' integration problems boil down to fear approximating a post-9/11 'dread of difference'.

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The Hebrew Hammer (2003)

by Kevin Jagernauth

[24.Nov.04] :. The Hammer remains confused and conflicted, almost apologetic for who he is.

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Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election (2003)

by Jennifer D. Wesley

[1.Nov.04] :. Under these conditions, the film suggests, another Florida is not only likely, but probable.

 

Northfork (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Jul.03] :. Challenges U.S. myths of enduring national identity, corporate good will, and westward-ho expansions.

 

Femme Fatale (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Nov.02] :. Rebecca Romijn-Stamos' central function is looking great and so, confounding various men around her.

 

E.T. the Extraterrestrial (1982/2002)

by Mike Ward

[4.Apr.02] :. The rerelease of 'E.T.' raises questions that underscore the difference between the Reagan-Bush years and the years of Bush Jr. and Dick Cheney.

 

A Walk to Remember (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Jan.02] :. PULL.

 

Erin Brockovich (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

What is it about a picture of Julia Roberts with a baby on her hip that seems so irresistible? This would be, of course, one of the images that’s become so instantly familiar through its heavy...