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Articles tagged "stephen rea" Film DVD ReviewStuckby Bill Gibron[23.Oct.08] :. Stuck addresses the current state of society circa the new millennium, albeit in a rather gory fashion.  Short Ends and LeaderStuck (2007)by Bill Gibron[19.Oct.08] :. Stuart Gordon’s career as one of the post-modern masters of the macabre happened quite by accident. As a graduate of the University of Wisconsin in the ‘60s, the self-described radical...  Film ReviewStuckby Cynthia Fuchs[30.May.08] :. Quite happily politically incorrect, Stuck pins everyone, including viewers.  Film DVD ReviewV for Vendetta (2006)by Cynthia Fuchs[2.Aug.06] :. "He's a pretty complex man," says Hugo Weaving of V. "He's been imprisoned and tortured and abused mentally and physically... and then burnt in fire."  Film ReviewV for Vendetta (2006)by Cynthia Fuchs[17.Mar.06] :. The Natalie Portman film is an earnestly angry, vaguely philosophical, but ultimately generic action movie.  Film ReviewBreakfast on Pluto (2005)by Cynthia Fuchs[16.Dec.05] :. As tends to happen in Neil Jordan's films about spirited outsiders, Kitten's sense of limbo doesn't limit him as much it inspires him to resist expectations. The I Inside (2003)by Nikki Tranter[10.May.05] :. You know something's wrong with your film when the most interesting thing in it is a 20-second scene featuring Robert Sean Leonard. feardotcom (2002)by Cynthia Fuchs[30.Aug.02] :. Udo Kier stumbles down a dark New York subway stairway, his face sweaty and deeply shadowed, his eyes popping in that Udo Kierian way. The Musketeer (2001)by Cynthia FuchsInstead of being innovative, 'The Musketeer' is appropriative and (save for the very clever fight scenes), straight-up insipid. The End of the Affair (1999)by jserpicoThis is a diary of hate, reads Maurice Bendrix (Ralph Fiennes) aloud as he simultaneously types these same words onto a page. Contrary to what you might expect following such a declaration, however, there is no violent emotion displayed in this introductory scene; no screaming, no violence, no melodrama. The End of the Affair (1999)by Cynthia FuchsOn its surface, Neil Jordan's film of Graham Greene's The End of the Affair is about love. In particular, it appears to be about heterosexual love, or maybe the similarities and disjunctions between spiritual and physical manifestations of such love. |
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