Articles tagged "ridley scott"

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Audiences turn a deaf ear to preachy Hollywood films

by Rene Rodriguez [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[31.Oct.08] :. Used to be, going to the movies was a way to escape the bustle and stress of the real world for a couple of hours. Lately, the multiplex has become a more tumultuous place. Choose the wrong picture,...

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Film Review

Body of Lies

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Oct.08] :. Body of Lies grants Ferris the usual moral rightness -- even as he's committing questionable acts, he means well.

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Short Ends and Leader

DiCaprio Only Reason ‘Lies’ Succeeds

by Bill Gibron

[9.Oct.08] :. Ridley Scott used to make daring, original movies. No matter the subject matter - outer space alien invasion, magical sword and sorcery adventure, revisionist Roman peplum - he’d place his...

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The Stories Industrial Designs Tell

by Jillian Burt

[2.Dec.07] :. The Dyson Airblade is launched in Sydney and the wild new world 21st century design writers must come to grips with.

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Film Review

American Gangster

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.Nov.07] :. As much as American Gangster loves Frank's intelligence and charisma, it must also condemn his criminality.

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Film Review

A Good Year (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Nov.06] :. As lovely as she may be, Fanny has her work cut out for her in A Good Year.

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Gladiator: Extended Edition (2000)

by John G. Nettles

[23.Sep.05] :. It's a bad sign for your making-of doc when the most interesting folks to listen to are the studio weasels.

 

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.

 

Black Hawk Down: Superbit (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Jun.04] :. Black Hawk Down illustrates well the absurdity and chaos of urban warfare: there's no ground to be won, no victory to be claimed.

 

Matchstick Men (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Sep.03] :. The distinctive thunk-thunk-thunk of Angela's skateboard punctuates his first look at her from behind his smoke-clouded windshield.

 

Black Hawk Down (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Jun.02] :. An action movie dressed up like an art film, 'Black Hawk Down' is not about betrayal or anger, but heroism and patriotic fervor.

 

The Gathering Storm

by Tracy McLoone

[7.May.02] :. The point in 'The Gathering Storm' is that Churchill is 'human', that he has faults.

 

Hannibal (2001)

by Todd R. Ramlow

As his immense popularity suggests, there is something about Lecter that appeals to 'us', there appears to be some level on which 'we' all wish we could be a little more like him, which is precisely what the filmmakers are banking on. And this is, in the end, the scariest thing about 'Hannibal' -- its perverse worship of the cannibalistic Doctor.

 

Gladiator (2000)

by Lucas Hilderbrand

They don’t make movies like they used to. But then again, why would they? Gladiator claims to be a return to the days of Spartacus, Ben Hur, and those preposterously huge...

 

Black Hawk Down (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

An action movie dressed up like an art film, 'Black Hawk Down' is not about betrayal or anger, but heroism and patriotic fervor.