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Articles tagged "sam rockwell"News‘Snow Angels’ star Sam Rockwell loves playing offbeat charactersby Lewis Beale [Newsday (MCT)][27.Mar.08] :. Another film, another whack-job character role for Sam Rockwell. In “Snow Angels,” the gifted, 39-year-old character actor plays a suicidal, born-again Christian trying to reconnect with...  Film ReviewSnow Angelsby Cynthia Fuchs[13.Mar.08] :. At its center, and much like David Gordon Green's other movies, Snow Angels is about faith.  DVD Film ReviewJoshuaby Evan Sawdey[30.Jan.08] :. Fear of your own child is exploited for maximum effect in this thriller, but there's little in the way of (believable) explanations for the characters’ actions. PopMatters Pick Film ReviewThe Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Fordby Cynthia Fuchs[21.Sep.07] :. By turns brutal and lyrical, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford considers Wild Western mythology and masculinity, violence and madness.  Film ReviewJoshua (2007)by Cynthia Fuchs[6.Jul.07] :. At first, Joshua invites you almost to imagine the boy's sense of rejection and growing frustration.  DVD Film ReviewThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005)by Cynthia Fuchs[10.Oct.05] :. For all its possibilities -- and its crazily pleasant animations --the movie takes a more or less conventional narrative shape. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005)by Cynthia Fuchs[29.Apr.05] :. Ford Prefect (Mos Def) wanders into the film of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a little late, and in no hurry. Matchstick Men (2003)by Cynthia Fuchs[11.Sep.03] :. The distinctive thunk-thunk-thunk of Angela's skateboard punctuates his first look at her from behind his smoke-clouded windshield. Charlie’s Angels (2000)by Cynthia Fuchs[9.Jun.03] :. 'Can you imagine Drew and Cameron and Lucy fighting in this capacity? It would be so sexy! It would be so exciting!'. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)by Cynthia Fuchs[23.Jan.03] :. His redemption, Barris abruptly realizes, can come only in detailed recollection, specifically, in his decision to confess his many sins. Charlie’s Angels (2000)by Cynthia FuchsYou haven’t lived until you’ve seen Drew Barrymore moonwalking to “Billie Jean.” This isn’t to say that you absolutely need to run out to see Charlie’s... Charlie’s Angels (2000)by America BillyMore often than not, when transforming a once-popular TV series into a movie, filmmakers try to update the style, pace, and attitude of the original in order to fit the contemporary context. But as... The Green Mile (1999)by Mark ReiterIt's not news to anyone that Steven King screen adaptations get tossed into two categories: absolute crap (Maximum Overdrive, Cujo, Pet Cemetery, et. al.) and important American cinema (Stanley Kubrick's The Shining and Frank Darabont's previous King adaptation, The Shawshank Redemption). Galaxy Quest (1999)by Mike WardRobert Zemeckis's Contact (1997) is without a doubt the finest movie in recent memory to deal with the question of what might be happening to all those rays of media dreck - TV shows, radio programs, and the like - we've been beaming higgledy-piggledy through the cosmos for the last century. Galaxy Quest is almost as certainly the second-finest such recent film, but come to think of it, I can't really recall a third, offhand, so I suppose this might constitute a less-than-ringing endorsement. Galaxy Quest (1999)by Jonathan BellerIn the guise of a spoof of Star Trek, Dean Parisot's cheesy and pleasurable Galaxy Quest delves deeply into the social relation known as fandom. What, the film seems to ask, is a fan?" The Green Mile (1999)by Cynthia Fuchsound dogs baying, wildflowers bending to the wind, angry white men in shirt-sleeves carrying shotguns, a swatch of cloth clinging to a tree branch. The details are all a little too familiar. You know you're looking at yet another recreation of the scary Old American South, specifically, you're looking at the set up for a lynching. This first scene of Frank Darabont's The Green Mile... Heist (2001)by WRITER[David Mamet's] language, severe and spare, actually sounds quite human comin |
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