Articles tagged "steve buscemi"

Rest in Pieces: Eulogies of the Past, Present, and Future Feature

Finding Steve Buscemi: The Perfect Understatement

by Jillian Steinhauer

[25.Sep.09] :. It’s only when you internalize Steve Buscemi’s movies [they] become a part of your life in an extremely personal, emotional way.

Rest in Pieces: Eulogies of the Past, Present, and Future

The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview Feature

Summer of Same: July 2009

by Bill Gibron

[29.Apr.09] :. In a rare attempt at novelty, July jets along with only Harry Potter and the Ice Age crew sampling continuing series spoils. The rest provide unknown pleasures.

The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview

Film Review

Igor

by Lesley Smith

[19.Sep.08] :. Igor fences Eva into a very old-fashioned position: literally a man’s creation, she helps to "civilize" the all-male society.

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The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview Feature

Talk, Talk, Talk: December 2008

by Bill Gibron

[12.Sep.08] :. Just like the end of an inspiring speech that may or may not succeed in making its point, these final four weeks before 2009 tend to define or defeat the entire awards season purpose.

The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview

The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview Feature

Talk, Talk, Talk: September 2008

by Bill Gibron

[9.Sep.08] :. From wars both past and present to a number of nail-biting thrillers, September is sizing up as a potentially profitable one.

The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview

Super Duper Bad: The Worst Films of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[11.Jan.08] :. From Good Luck Chuck to Julie Taymor's ill-advised Beatlesque '60s tribute Across the Universe, PopMatters presents the dreck of 2007.

Interview

by Jack Patrick Rodgers

[10.Dec.07] :. Pierre and Katya are too strange and too duplicitous for their conversation to have any deeper level than simply skewering the vapidity of most celebrity journalism.

Steve Buscemi combines acting, directing talents in ‘Interview’

by Bruce Dancis [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[14.Sep.07] :. In “Reservoir Dogs,” he didn’t believe in leaving tips for waitresses. In “Fargo,” he was referred to as “the little guy (who) was kinda...

I Think I Love My Wife

by Tiffany White

[27.Aug.07] :. When you strip away all its jokiness and "Rock-isms", there's actually a good film hiding in here.

Interview

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Aug.07] :. Katya and Pierre's mutual distrust is predictable, but the movie emphasizes their sometimes surprising sameness.

I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Jul.07] :. Ving Rhames gets that Duncan can be gay, and not have to be a fulltime "flamer," in the film's parlance.

I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (2007)

by Bill Gibron

[20.Jul.07] :. This gay marriage movie isn’t really ready to deal with the overriding disputes that arise whenever civil rights and civil unions become part of the human dialogue.

Part 5: The Return of the Auteur

by PopMatters Staff

[22.Jun.07] :. That noise you heard near the start of the new millennium was the creative din of a brash new breed of filmmakers tearing down the traditions of mainstream moviemaking. Their motion picture mission statements -- including the ones featured on this list -- remain the rulebook for new generations of anxious film artists.

Kids’ DVDs: June 2007

by Roger Holland

[6.Jun.07] :. Given that babies and young children love nothing more than repetition, repetition, and... um.... repetition, I can't understand why even the pointiest of heads would think children between the ages of six months and three years could possible need 23 different Baby Einstein DVDs.

Monkey Business (Part 3: July)

by Bill Gibron

[3.May.07] :. Finally, a month with only one remaining series contender. All wizard based Potter-y aside, this will be the most tenuous time for the business called show. After a strong start, the eccentric collection of entertainments here could make or break this potentially record shattering motion picture season.

I Think I Love My Wife (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Mar.07] :. The movie is an erratic, noisy, and anxious paean to masculine desire. In a word, it's all about dick.

Charlottes Web (2006)

by Daynah Burnett

[14.Dec.06] :. Surprise! There is nothing even remotely offensive or ironic or postmodern about Charlotte's Web.

Lonesome Jim (2006)

by Marisa Carroll

[14.Apr.06] :. Anika (Liv Tyler) is either an earthbound guardian angel or the Midwest's most voluptuously lipped stalker.

Twenty Bucks (1993)

by Glenn Michael McDonald

[27.Jul.05] :. Reflecting its long gestation period, Twenty Bucks seems ageless, its photography and art direction creating an ambiguous timestamp.

The Island (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Jul.05] :. Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson run around in an efficiently digitized near-future scary-scape, occasionally propelled by ethical questions about cloning.

Coffee and Cigarettes (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Sep.04] :. Coffee and Cigarettes is a return, of sorts, for Jim Jarmusch.

13 Moons (2002)

by Bill Gibron

[12.Jul.04] :. In this world of unbelievable coincidences, Karma battles fate for the destiny of all involved.

Coffee and Cigarettes (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.May.04] :. Coffee and Cigarettes is a return, of sorts, for Jim Jarmusch.

Coffee and Cigarettes (2004)

by Jesse Hassenger

[13.May.04] :. On its own terms, Coffee and Cigarettes is an effective addiction movie, self-indulgent but also familiar and low-key.

Big Fish (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Apr.04] :. Edward's persistent self-inflation frustrates Will, just as its contradictions appeal to Burton.

The Sopranos

by Oliver Wang

[12.Apr.04] :. As The Sopranos enters its fifth season, it's clear that things will not go well for New Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano.

Big Fish (2003)

by Jesse Hassenger

[8.Jan.04] :. Edward is less obviously an outsider than Burton's other Edwards (Scissorhands and Wood), but equally filled with a winning sense of wonder.

Fargo (1996)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[30.Sep.03] :. This is the film's genius, its simultaneous emulation and excavation of true crime's obsession with dull or spectacular minutiae, coupled with a refusal to make such details cohere into master plans and meanings.

Living in Oblivion (1995)

by Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece

[14.Apr.03] :. Living in Oblivion's fine cast works together like a dream.

The Grey Zone (2002)

by Elbert Ventura

[31.Oct.02] :. This crepuscular work offers the most realistic depiction of the infernal workings of a Nazi death camp ever seen in a fiction film.

Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Aug.02] :. Juni and Carmen's perspective, part convincingly ingenuous and part movie-kid calculated, organizes the film's general view of things.

Monsters, Inc. (2001)

by Tracy McLoone

[1.Nov.01] :. PULL.

The Laramie Project

by Stephen Tropiano

'The Laramie Project' gives the townspeople a voice, an opportunity to respond to the murder and the trials that put them in the national spotlight.

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.

Ghost World (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

'Ghost World' is smart, sensitive, and insightful about the lunacy that constitutes adolescence, and never forgets how real and how complicated kids' feelings are.

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

The invasion is not from without, per se, but from, and, as Ripley noted so insightfully in 'Alien 3', 'It's a metaphor.' And when 'Final Fantasy' pauses to engage this question, most notably in Aki's dreams, it's onto something.

Domestic Disturbance (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Domestic Disturbance goes through the motions, slowly at first, and then with a speed that would seem remarkable if you cared a whit what was going on.