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Articles tagged "saïd taghmaoui" PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008 FeatureOMG - The 20 Worst Films of 2008by PopMatters Staff[15.Jan.09] :. There's bad, and then there's 2008 level bad. You know this list is looking down into a deep dark bottomless pit of cinematic despair when Mike Myers' shameful Love Guru didn't even make the Top 20! PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008  NewsDon Cheadle likes to be surprised, so he looks for a diversity of rolesby Robert W. Butler [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][28.Aug.08] :. If you say “John Wayne,” you know what you’re getting. If you say “Don Cheadle,” prepare to be surprised. “I didn’t get into this business to do the same... Film ReviewTraitorby Cynthia Fuchs[27.Aug.08] :. While the film appears at first to be complicating the definition of "traitor," it's not long before the potential meanings are reductive and literal.  Film DVD ReviewVantage Pointby Jake Meaney[21.Jul.08] :. It’s almost rather brilliant the way the film betrays and sabotages itself as it comes down the home stretch. PopMatters Pick Film DVD ReviewThe Kite Runnerby Elizabeth Cho[24.Mar.08] :. This is a sensitive, kind adaptation of a well-loved book, and the DVD has well-crafted features that help extend the message of what is essential to human existence: hope.  Film ReviewVantage Pointby Cynthia Fuchs[22.Feb.08] :. As Vantage Point becomes increasingly busy with personal betrayals and redemptions, the ostensible politics, reductive to begin with, fall by the wayside. The Kite Runnerby Cynthia Fuchs[14.Dec.07] :. The Kite Runner shows that even if Baba could make his boy perfectly courageous and honest, outside forces inevitably affect even the most careful plans for the future. Hidalgo (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[9.Aug.04] :. 'Being out in the middle of the Arabian desert,' says Mortensen, 'you could easily imagine what it must have been like.'" The Good Thief (2003)by Cynthia Fuchs[18.Aug.03] :. 'I wanted to create a world that doesn't quite exist, you know, a world of nighttime clubs and nighttime criminality.'" The Good Thief (2003)by Cynthia Fuchs[17.Apr.03] :. Doubles all stakes of the original film, and more elaborately, of the remaking process. |
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