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Film DVD Review

Premonition (2007)

by Brett Parker

[17.Jul.07] :. While Premonition is not on the same level as The Sixth Sense, it is nonetheless the first thriller in a while to provoke comparable discussion.

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Premonition (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Mar.07] :. Sandra Bullock's new thriller takes a tedious turn by suggesting the woman in trouble is "crazy".

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News

A great script led Sandra Bullock to do thriller

by Terry Lawson [Detroit Free Press (MCT)]

[14.Mar.07] :. Not so long ago, an actress told the Detroit Free Press that her name was Sandra, and she was a romantic-comicaholic in need of an intervention. The quip got picked up by news services, and - says...

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Film DVD Review

The Movie Hero (2003)

by Jake Meaney

[8.Dec.06] :. Both eulogy and cautionary tale, The Movie Hero is a glimpse into that unfortunate space where a labor of love curdles into spite.

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Unknown (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Nov.06] :. One or two resist their designations: Bound Man doesn't want to be bound, Broken Nose resents that mishap.

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TV Review

Prison Break

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Sep.06] :. Much as the Scofields despise the abject corruption that got them into this fix, they plainly feel less affinity for shadows than full-on righteousness. They believe they can get even.

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Prison Break - Season One

by Jake Meaney

[6.Sep.06] :. Fox's preposterous prison serial cranks the lunacy and thrills up to 11 in its oversized and rollicking inaugural season.

 

The Brothers Grimm (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Jan.06] :. 'This is why I love DVDs,' says Terry Gilliam. 'I can completely destroy the illusion of my film.'"

 

Prison Break

by Samantha Bornemann

[12.Sep.05] :. The good and bad guys in Prison Break might cry, fight, screw, and bleed, but they still look like cardboard to me.

 

The Brothers Grimm (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Aug.05] :. Will worries out loud, 'Nothing makes sense here, it's like being inside Jake's head.'"

 

Constantine (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Feb.05] :. Doubting his mission and his faith even as he's consumed by them, Constantine is an achingly topical comic book/movie hero.

 

Birth (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Nov.04] :. Catching her breath as if she's been hit, Mrs. Conte's (Cara Seymour) visceral reaction, amid the film's overwhelmingly somber, ethereal weirdness, is finally believable.

 

Fargo (1996)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[30.Sep.03] :. This is the film's genius, its simultaneous emulation and excavation of true crime's obsession with dull or spectacular minutiae, coupled with a refusal to make such details cohere into master plans and meanings.

 

Spun (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Jul.03] :. Screenwriter William De Los Santos calls Spun a 'love story'.

 

Spun (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Apr.03] :. Boasting that it includes more than 5,000 edits, Jonas Åkerlund's feature debut offers glimpses -- very fast -- into life on speed.

 

Minority Report (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Jun.02] :. Based on a story published by Philip K. Dick in 1956, 'Minority Report' is science-fiction of the sort that Dick preferred to write -- set in the future, but all wrapped up in concerns that are immediately relevant to the present moment (that the same concerns were relevant back in 1956 is not a little unnerving, as will become clear).

 

Windtalkers (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Jun.02] :. Though it might be argued that Nicolas Cage roaring and contorting in slow motion makes for good action cinema, it's hardly the basis for a thoughtful interrogation of how war works, how it shatters (or otherwise forever changes) participants, and reinforces systemic racism.

 

Bad Company (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.Jun.02] :. PULL.

 

Watching Ellie

by Kevin Devine

And now that I'm used to the neck-snappin', speed-skatin' lifestyle this Ellie leads, I'm looking to wash up in Lake Guffaw, to take a dive into the deep end of the Funny Pool.

 

Dancer in the Dark (2000)

by Todd R. Ramlow

'Dancer in the Dark', for all its fantastical musical excursions and all its tear-jerkiness nevertheless brings home the sobering reminder that justice does not always prevail.

 

Dancer in the Dark (2000)

by Lucas Hilderbrand

It seems only a film as schizophrenic as 'Dancer in the Dark' would suit Björk, what with its melancholic moments of quiet and curious explosions of sound.

 

Chocolat (2000)

by Dale Leech

If Lasse Hallström’s Chocolat were a Disney film, it would be Beauty and the Beast. Both are set in quaint mountainside hamlets filled with close-minded people who are led by...