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TV DVD Review

24: Redemption

by Jake Meaney

[8.Dec.08] :. Redemption manages to locate an emotional center than had been missing from 24 since…well, if not ever, since at least the first season.

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TV Review

24: Redemption

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Nov.08] :. In Africa, where children are forced to soldier, Jack realizes, every day is full of terror -- not just the 24-hour spates he's used to confronting.

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PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007 Feature

The Best Big Screen Eye Candy of 2007

by Daynah Burnett

[4.Jan.08] :. When flipping through my mental catalog of the year's films, certain scenes stand out. This past year offered a veritable feast of visual goodies.

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TV DVD Review

Hitler: The Rise of Evil

by Marco Lanzagorta

[12.Nov.07] :. The list of deliberate historical blunders that Hitler: The Rise of Evil shamelessly uses to enhance its moralistic agenda is unacceptably large for a production that claims to be a biographical epic.

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Film Review

28 Weeks Later (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.May.07] :. The moral universe is intractably skewed in 28 Weeks Later, a film that works hard to reflect the world around it.

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News

Zombie sequel rides the crest of a horror-movie wave

by Rene Rodriguez [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[10.May.07] :. Indulge me here: Imagine being under attack by flesh-eating zombies. Your cornered spouse is screaming out for help. Do you rush to his or her side, knowing it spells certain doom for both of you? Or...

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Monkey 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.

 

To End All Wars (2001)

by Nikki Tranter

[23.Jan.03] :. Explores separate and collective struggles to survive, the prisoners' strengths and weaknesses.

 

Formula 51 (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Oct.02] :. In Ronny Yu's mostly formulaic Formula 51, Samuel L. Jackson plays Elmo McElroy, a chemical whiz busted for smoking reefer.

 

The World Is Not Enough (1999)

by Beth Armitage

I can't help it; whenever I hear that opening theme music to a James Bond film, I get a tingle. I can't help but to hope for the best. This time out, my hopes were raised by a great opening sequence to The World Is Not Enough, which involves a thrilling highspeed boat chase. What's more, TWINE gives us the premise for a most excellent villain.

 

The Beach (2000)

by Todd R. Ramlow

Leo's much anticipated follow up to the record smashing Titanic has finally arrived, and it is, perhaps not so surprisingly, considering the hype to be lived up to -- an unmitigated flop.

 

The Beach (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

“Innocence never lasts forever.” This is the tagline for The Beach, the expensive and highly touted occasion for Leo’s long-awaited return to the big screen. How silly it...

 

Angela’s Ashes (1999)

by Renee Scolaro Rathke

It must be a daunting task to translate to film a book as enormously popular as Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes. Inevitably, some devotees of McCourt’s memoir of growing up in...