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Articles tagged "rosario dawson" Short Ends and LeaderIMAX makes this ‘Eagle’ Soarby Bill Gibron[28.Sep.08] :. Beware of Big Brother…blah, blah, blah. You can’t pick up a publication nowadays, or listen to any number of broadcast pundits, and not hear about how the Bush Administration is violating...  Film ReviewRent (2005)by Cynthia Fuchs[23.Nov.05] :. The song, 'Rent', names its own dilemma, how to make melodrama and artifice compelling when experience has turned so sensational and illusory?"  Film DVD ReviewSin City (2005)by Cynthia Fuchs[16.Aug.05] :. Like the guys, the girls are undone by their reliance on conventional male power signs.  Film DVD ReviewAlexander: Director’s Cut (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[10.Aug.05] :. Oliver Stone calls his Alexander 'a new genre, a masculine-feminine action figure,' more like Monty Clift and James Dean than Russell Crowe. Film ReviewSin City (2005)by Cynthia Fuchs[1.Apr.05] :. Distraught, ornery, self-critical, these heroes are certainly more "anti" types than straight-ahead. Alexander (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[24.Nov.04] :. Though Olympias is unbeatably charismatic (and plain fun amid all the drearily inclined boys), the film takes a typically Stonian approach to the evil woman. The Rundown (2003)by Cynthia Fuchs[25.Sep.03] :. The Rock doesn't want to hurt 'em, but he just can't help it. The 25th Hour (2002)by Cynthia Fuchs[19.Dec.02] :. The 25th Hour opens with huge, hard-hitting shots of the March 2002 tribute to the Twin Towers, the towers of light. The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002)by Cynthia Fuchs[22.Aug.02] :. The Adventures of Pluto Nash is a whole lot of nada. Men In Black II (2002)by Cynthia Fuchs[8.Jul.02] :. What the sequel does make abundantly clear is that the apparently accidental harmonies of the first can -- indeed must -- be turned into calculation. Light It Up (1999)by Cynthia FuchsIn the case of Light It Up, crossing-over occurs on several levels, not the least significant being the use of a famously hard rapper like Ja Rule to pitch a movie that argues against kids being hard. The slip-the-yoke-and-change-the-joke crossing over here comes in the soundtrack's brilliant marketing moves of the soundtrack crossover. Josie and the Pussycats (2001)by Ben Varkentine'Josie and the Pussycats' is 'so' witless that I cannot imagine it finding an audience even in a country that made 'Tomcats' (this has been a bad month for films with cats in the title) a top-five grosser. Josie and the Pussycats (2001)by Cynthia FuchsAs demonstrated by artists as different from one another as Eminem, Blink-182, and Andy Dick, there are many jokes to be made at the expense of the current crop of pop stars. Down to You (2000)by Cynthia FuchsImagine this: Freddie Prinze, Jr. is lip-synching Barry White’s “Can’t Get Enough of your Love,” with spoon-as-mike in hand. In a reverse shot, Julia Stiles smiles warmly,... |
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