Articles tagged "robert zemeckis"

Column: Lowbrow Literati

Looking Back at ‘Back to the Future’

by Monte Williams

[9.Apr.09] :. The most irreverent, knowing, daring and hippest time travel story of all time has, inevitably and fittingly, become a time capsule.

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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”.

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Film DVD Review

Beowulf (2007)

by Jarrett Berman

[3.Mar.08] :. Crawling with mermaids and monsters, irony, and gore, Beowulf delivers the goods, without betraying its core narrative.

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‘Beowulf’ screenwriter says don’t expect `300’ in Viking horns

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

[16.Nov.07] :. BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.—Fantasy author Neil Gaiman automatically turns down offers to rewrite others’ work for the screen, but in the case of “Beowulf,” whose 8th-century author...

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Film Review

Beowulf

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Nov.07] :. Beowulf is the model man, outrageous and arrogant, and so admired far and wide.

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Film DVD Review

Romancing the Stone/The Jewel of the Nile (1984)

by Nikki Tranter

[27.Sep.06] :. Everything in Jewel of the Nile is predictable, right down to the romantic final scenes at sunset.

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The Polar Express (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Nov.04] :. It's part Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory, and part Terry Gilliam's Brazil, that is, just this side of sinister.

 

What Lies Beneath (2000)

by Renee Scolaro Rathke

CAUTION: This review contains spoilers, although frankly, it doesn’t reveal much more information than the film’s trailer does. “Take Me Away!” The most...

 

Cast Away (2000)

by Isaac Kerson

Cast Away, the new movie directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks, follows the life of Chuck Noland (Hanks), an over-achieving efficiency expert for FedEx who is stranded on a...