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Articles tagged "sigourney weaver" Film ReviewBaby Mamaby Cynthia Fuchs[25.Apr.08] :. If he's not precisely magical in Baby Mama, Oscar (Romany Malco) does function as wise advisor for white women who should know better. Featured Article DVD Film ReviewThe Ice Stormby Matt Mazur[4.Apr.08] :. The general fuzzed-out sense of malaise that Lee is able to tap into while exploring the Nixon-era sexual revolution (and repression and adventure), creates a point of view that both ruthlessly observes and empathizes with these alien suburbanites.  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.  DVD Film ReviewThe TV Setby Jesse Hassenger[8.Oct.07] :. The TV Set on DVD, with its various articulations of anger and frustration, makes for entertaining therapy; now it's time for Kasdan to let go and love again.  Film ReviewSnow Cake (2006)by Cynthia Fuchs[22.May.07] :. Alex first appears in Snow Cake aboard a plane, embodying an obvious contradiction, in motion and still at the same time.  Film ReviewImaginary Heroes (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[4.Mar.05] :. Dan Harris's Imaginary Heroes keeps digging into Sandy's darkly-secreted past, producing revelations less surprising than wearisome. The Village (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[10.Jan.05] :. 'I have to keep doing things that scare me, and this certainly scares me,' says M. Night Shyamalan. The Village (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[5.Aug.04] :. Noah is so wrapped up in his own emotions that he seems, at first, the most literal embodiment of the film's critique of a post-9/11 American isolationism. Tadpole (2002)by Cynthia Fuchs[25.Jul.02] :. In assuming Oscar's perspective, the film makes out like everyone is as smitten with him as he is. Company Man (2001)by Tobias PetersonComing on the heels of Thirteen Days, Company Man is the latest look at the troubled relationship between the United States and Cuba. Whereas trailers for Thirteen Days showcase... 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?" Heartbreakers (2001)by Cynthia FuchsLongtime 'Simpsons' writer and executive producer David Mirkin's predilection for wickedly witty cartoonishness is only slightly tempered in his live-action movies. |
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