Articles tagged "sandra bullock"

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With ‘The Proposal,’ Sandra Bullock is ready to show she can still do it all

by John Anderson [Newsday (MCT)]

[15.Jun.09] :. On Friday, Sandra Bullock rematerialized in “The Proposal,” after spending about two years off the movie grid (and a few more than that MIA from the romantic-comedy arena). The film, from...

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The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview Feature

Summer of Same: June 2009

by Bill Gibron

[28.Apr.09] :. This month's "original" fare offers a take on a Sid and Marty Krofft classic, more battling seizure robots, and the retaking of '70s subway thriller. Everything old is new again.

The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview

 

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Hollywood, race and the Age of Obama

by Christopher Kelly [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[26.Dec.08] :. Gook. Dragon lady. Swamp rats. These are but a few of the cringe-inducing racial epithets spewed by Clint Eastwood’s Walt Kowalski in “Gran Torino,” the cringe-inducing new drama...

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Film DVD Review

Premonition (2007)

by Brett Parker

[17.Jul.07] :. While Premonition is not on the same level as The Sixth Sense, it is nonetheless the first thriller in a while to provoke comparable discussion.

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Premonition (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Mar.07] :. Sandra Bullock's new thriller takes a tedious turn by suggesting the woman in trouble is "crazy".

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A great script led Sandra Bullock to do thriller

by Terry Lawson [Detroit Free Press (MCT)]

[14.Mar.07] :. Not so long ago, an actress told the Detroit Free Press that her name was Sandra, and she was a romantic-comicaholic in need of an intervention. The quip got picked up by news services, and - says...

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Infamous (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Oct.06] :. When Truman quite gleefully describes his plan to use 'fictional techniques' to tell his nonfiction story, to shape the Clutter murders as an emblem of cultural malaise, Nelle insists on a knowable distinction between fact and fiction.

 

The Lake House (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Jun.06] :. Shuffled around amid a series of very pretty split screens and unmoored voiceovers, Alex and Kate must create a relationship out of very contrived air.

 

The Thing Called Love: Director’s Cut (1993)

by Mary Colgan

[9.Mar.06] :. Country music provides a roadmap, guiding the characters away from disillusionment and toward a simpler, more straightforward way of life.

 

Crash (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.May.05] :. The lesson seems geared toward those viewers who were surprised by the Rodney King video, that is, people who don't regularly deal with cultural collisions.

 

Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[25.Mar.05] :. Gracie, it appears, has learned nothing from her previous 'girl power' outing.

 

Two Weeks Notice (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Dec.02] :. People keep wanting Sandy Bullock to be sweet and feisty like she was in Speed.

 

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.Jun.02] :. PULL.

 

Murder by Numbers (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Apr.02] :. 'Murder by Numbers' isn't about solving the case; it's about solving Cassie (Sandra Bullock).

 

28 Days (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

The pleasure Gwen takes in all this chaos -- not to mention Bullock's signature sunniness -- makes this introductory sequence look like the opening to a broad Farrelly brothers-style comedy.

 

Miss Congeniality (2000)

by Lesley Smith

Any director who imagines the slender acting talent of Benjamin Bratt (late of TV's 'Law & Order') can sustain the male lead, FBI agent and atavistic prig Eric Matthews (particularly opposite the gloriously charismatic Bullock) requires instant re-immersion in Casting 101.