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Hellboy II: The Golden Army

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Jul.08] :. As he loves Liz, life, and TV, Hellboy embodies possibility, faith, and imagination.

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Del Toro Delivers with ‘Hellboy 2’

by Bill Gibron

[11.Jul.08] :. Ever wonder what it would be like if your favorite filmmaker had the creative freedom to realize his or her own inner artistic aims? Ever lament the fact that directors like Terry Gilliam, Tim...

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Ron Perlman is proud to hide his face behind the mask of ‘Hellboy’

by Rick Bentley [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[7.Jul.08] :. Ron Perlman has a face made for makeup. But he’s OK with that. He says some of the most comfortable roles of his career have been when he wore lots of makeup. That includes parts from the...

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TV Review

Starz Inside: Comic Books Unbound

by Todd R. Ramlow

[10.Jun.08] :. Comic Books Unbound offers only cursory consideration of the media conglomeration that has made comic-film box office domination possible.

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The Last Winter

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Oct.07] :. The Last Winter suggests that the Arctic, the environment itself, has a point of view.

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Film DVD Review

Two Soldiers (2003)

by Erik Hinton

[17.Jul.07] :. Two Soldiers does more for filmmaking and your library of DVDs in under 50 minutes than a shelf full of the three-hour feats of endurance that are now commonplace.

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Hellboy: 2-Disc Special Edition (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Jul.04] :. Speaking in his commentary track, del Toro is keenly passionate about the film, the character, and Hellboy creator Mike Mignola.

 

Hellboy (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[1.Apr.04] :. The latest hero for our time is red. Fire engine red. Looming over the city from a rooftop, he puffs his cigar and glowers.

 

Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)

by Todd R. Ramlow

[13.Dec.02] :. As Nemesis amply demonstrates, the franchise is getting quite long in the tooth.

 

Price of Glory (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Price of Glory opens with a boxing match in Phoenix, Arizona, 1977. While the mostly Mexican/Latino ringside crowd yells and hoots, a young man takes a terrible beating. His trainer urges him on, his face is bruised and panicked, and the scene lurches into that boxing film cliche, the eight-frames-per-second knock-out punch: his jaw contorts, his blood flies, and he hits the floor.

 

Enemy at the Gates (2001)

by Mike Ward

This is Enemy at the Gates's most elegant theme, one that its often heavy-handed melodrama almost but not quite diminishes: that to be observed is to die, but to be invisible and quiet as the dead may allow you to survive.

 

Blade II (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

The Daywalker has his own agenda, still fever-dreaming and raging, but changed too.

 
 
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