Articles tagged "robert de niro"

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Robert De Niro’s film festival returns for eighth season

by John Anderson [Newsday (MCT)]

[21.Apr.09] :. In 2002, Robert De Niro, producer Jane Rosenthal and Rosenthal’s husband, real estate developer Craig Hatkoff, started the Tribeca Film Festival with the idea of resuscitating their downtown...

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Film DVD Review

Righteous Kill

by Jake Meaney

[5.Feb.09] :. This movie boasts a tired and generic script and achieves a weird sort of harmonic convergence of forgetablilty.

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Short Ends and Leader

‘What Just Happened?’ Nothing Worth Watching!

by Bill Gibron

[7.Nov.08] :. Hollywood hates poking fun at itself. While it’s handled its fair share of good natured cinematic ribbing, once we get to the seething scalding takes like The Stunt Man or The...

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Director brings some of his own industry experiences to ‘What Just Happened?’

by Colin Covert [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)]

[6.Nov.08] :. Veteran filmmaker Barry Levinson (who gave us “Good Morning Vietnam” and “Rain Man” as well as the sci-fi botch “Sphere” and the Ben Stiller-Jack Black comedy you...

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Film Review

What Just Happened

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Oct.08] :. Less an expose than a recap of what even casual observers of the industry know or intuit, What Just Happened relies on clichés even as it deplores them.

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Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs Feature

Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs: Part 2

by PopMatters Staff

[14.Oct.08] :. Day Two - A demanding Decalogue overflowing with everything: from fascinating international fare, misbegotten masterworks, some out of the blue bafflers, and that seminal show about “nothing”.

Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs

‘Righteous Kill’: Attacked on All Sides

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Sep.08] :. Righteous Kill uses Karen (Carla Gugino) both to critique the male cops' sense of self-righteousness and be the victim.

‘Kill’ is Substandard Suspense

by Bill Gibron

[12.Sep.08] :. Sometimes, an excess of talent can lead to very little in evidence. Put another way, you can overload a film with artistic aspirations, failing to see that several pluses can still create a great big...

Talk, Talk, Talk: October 2008

by Bill Gibron

[10.Sep.08] :. What studio suit thought this was a good idea? With four months to schedule your high priced efforts, you instead unload almost 30 overpriced pictures on an unsuspecting movie audience.

Talk, Talk, Talk: September 2008

by Bill Gibron

[9.Sep.08] :. From wars both past and present to a number of nail-biting thrillers, September is sizing up as a potentially profitable one.

Robert De Niro joins Mel Gibson in ‘Darkness’

by Zap2it.com [(MCT)]

[5.Aug.08] :. LOS ANGELES - Robert De Niro is expected to join the cast of “Edge of Darkness,” Mel Gibson’s return to big screen acting. Production on “Edge of Darkness” will begin...

New York, New York

by Matt Mazur

[16.Jan.08] :. Scorsese films Liza Minelli like a '40s musical screen goddess, and she repays him with one of her most relaxed, assured acting performances.

Taxi Driver: Collectors Edition

by Bruce Dancis [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[27.Aug.07] :. The extras driving this Collector's Edition of Taxi Driver.

Stardust

by Daynah Burnett

[10.Aug.07] :. What Stardust wields in star power, it lacks in original, or even interesting, storytelling.

Part 4: Challenging Convention

by PopMatters Staff

[21.Jun.07] :. As cinema went completely commercial, abandoning art for artifice, true aesthetic acumen was hard to come by. Luckily, for the movies included herein, it was their difference, as well as their diversity, that helped them stand out from the rest of the high concept hackwork.

Future Shock: The Death of Serious Science Fiction

by Bill Gibron

[29.May.07] :. The serious Science Fiction film genre is dead or at least on cinematic life support. As the new millennial marches forward, and an omnipresent production paradigm that substitutes spectacle for smarts, futurist filmmaking is definitely gasping for breath.

The Good Shepherd (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Dec.06] :. For Edward, the CIA forms a circular logic: members define the mission and vice versa.

The Godfather: Part II (1974)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Jul.05] :. Francis Ford Coppola's focus on his family, in the film and his memory, could not be more poignant or more public.

Hide and Seek (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Jan.05] :. Dakota Fanning seems alternately to be channeling Beetlejuice-era Winona Ryder and Christina Ricci's Wednesday Addams.

The Untouchables: Special Collector’s Edition (1987)

by Leigh H. Edwards

[1.Nov.04] :. It's a story of a (nearly lone) lawman standing up against the bad guys, replete with a High Noon type showdown.

Shark Tale (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[1.Oct.04] :. Oscar aspires to fame, wealth, and dates with beautiful women-fish.

Godsend (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[29.Apr.04] :. Jessie is slow to react to all this weirdness, feeling understandably protective of her child and unfathomable trust in Richard.

Analyze That (2002)

by Elbert Ventura

[5.Dec.02] :. To endure Analyze That requires not just suspension of disbelief, but suspension of neurological activity as well.

City by the Sea (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.Sep.02] :. All these horrors in one family might easily lead to questions concerning genetics and proclivity, codes of masculinity and violence.

Showtime (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Mar.02] :. The trouble with 'Showtime' is that it never lets up on its self-congratulatory wink-winking.

The Score (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

...it's boy-movie-making 101, a very traditional plot point indeed.

Men of Honor (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Men of Honor opens with a scene that sets up many of its themes and interests, not the least of which is the introduction of Billy Sunday (Robert De Niro) with his face beaten to a bruised and...

The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

At one point during the endless-seeming shenanigans of The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, Robert De Niro, embodying the cartoon character Fearless Leader, faces the camera, smirks, and...