Articles tagged "steve zahn"

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`Strange Wilderness’ star gets serious about his comedy

by Colin Covert [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)]

[31.Jan.08] :. Steve Zahn’s affable, stammery charm has earned him an enviable track record in comedy films, but lately he’s also blossomed into a fine serious actor. He juggles work in weighty films...

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TV Review

Comanche Moon

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Jan.08] :. The most outrageous and most pleasurable element in Comanche Moon, Inish Scull (Val Kilmer) is also its strangest, least plausible, and most convincing incarnation of "history."

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Film DVD Review

Rescue Dawn

by Jack Patrick Rodgers

[18.Dec.07] :. Werner Herzog has made a career out of profiling men with impossible dreams who end up fighting against nature and society to make them a reality.

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Short Ends and Leader

Short Cuts - In Theaters: Rescue Dawn (2006)

by Bill Gibron

[28.Jul.07] :. In auteur/artist Werner Herzog’s world, there are only two major conflicts – man vs. nature, and man vs. his own nature. Such a philosophy encapsulates almost every kind of interaction...

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Film DVD Review

That Thing You Do! - The Directors Cut (1996)

by Marc Calderaro

[18.Jun.07] :. That Thing You Do!, the movie, is humorous and entertaining. Skip the annoying extras, and you'll actually enjoy it.

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Sahara (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[31.Aug.05] :. Then they get to the Dirk part, that is, their much-considered intentions for their hero, their plans to create the 'dynamic of Dirk'.

Sahara (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Apr.05] :. No surprise, all these plots -- whether engineered by villains or heroes -- rehearse imperial fantasies at the expense of African tribespeople.

National Security (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.Jun.03] :. Endeavors to complicate the standard black-white buddy dynamic.

Daddy Day Care (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.May.03] :. Too many scenes (and far too many montages) seem in slow motion, even though they involve kids moving at something approximating warp-speed.

National Security (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Jan.03] :. Endeavors to complicate the standard black-white buddy dynamic.

Hamlet (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

I confess to feeling a certain dread when I first heard that Ethan ('I have this planet of regret') Hawke was starring in Michael Almereyda's updated-and-abbreviated Hamlet.

Hamlet (2000)

by Beth Armitage

Hamlet often speaks in a voice-over or directly to the video camera that he is rarely without. Sometimes we see the results of these 'video diaries' as he rewatches them on his monitor -- his own Real World confessional.

Riding in Cars With Boys (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

In 'Riding in Cars', Barrymore plays to her strengths -- her ability to seem at once disarmingly open, as well as poised, ironic, and above all, delighted to be living her life.

Saving Silverman (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

I’d say it’s official: Amanda Peet is the reigning go-to-girl for neo-romantic comedies involving nasty jokes about death, sex, and what might be best described as “control...