Articles tagged "tim allen"

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999 Feature

Part 5: Toy Story 2 to Titus (November - December 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[27.Mar.09] :. On this final day of PopMatters' 1999 overview, awards season hype gives way to pure acting prowess and definitive directorial flair.

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

 

Film Review

Redbelt

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.May.08] :. In Redbelt, as ever in David Mamet's universe, the fight is the issue.

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The PopMatters Summer 2008 Movie Preview Feature

The Return of the Popcorn Circus: May 2008

by Bill Gibron

[28.Apr.08] :. In the first act of this four-part production, Tinsel Town decides to do some unbelievable front loading. Will there be room for independent offerings, or former HBO carnal comedy divas? Who knows? Without a doubt, it's an interesting way to start the season.

The PopMatters Summer 2008 Movie Preview

 

Film Review

Wild Hogs (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.Mar.07] :. From the director responsible for Van Wilder, Wild Hogs is another thudding men-will-be-boys saga, this time populated by middle-agey stereotypes.

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TV DVD Review

Home Improvement: The Complete Fourth Season

by Nikki Tranter

[28.Aug.06] :. In its fourth season, Home Improvement shifts away from its focus on Tim's conventional masculinity to the family's "development."

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TV DVD Review

Home Improvement: The Complete Third Season

by Nikki Tranter

[3.Jan.06] :. Home Improvement's third season is its best, as crack-up funny as it is heartfelt.

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Toy Story: 10th Anniversary Edition (1995)

by Jesse Hassenger

[5.Oct.05] :. Ten years on, much of Pixar's Toy Story, the first computer-animated feature film, is as sweet and smart as ever.

 

Home Improvement: The Complete Second Season

by Nikki Tranter

[21.Jul.05] :. Despite his muscle-headed tendencies, it's hard not to love Tim Taylor.

 

Home Improvement: The Complete First Season

by Nikki Tranter

[10.Jan.05] :. Tim's determination to add 'more power' to every household appliance or gardening tool speaks to his skewed sense of what it means to be a man.

 

Christmas with the Kranks (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Nov.04] :. Tim Allen needs to stop making Christmas movies.

 

The Santa Clause 2 (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[31.Oct.02] :. Given that it's a generically family/holiday film, The Santa Clause 2 has nothing new to say about anything.

 

Joe Somebody (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Dec.01] :. It gets points for knowing what it is, a formulaic PG picture without pretensions to grandeur (and for not being 'The Majestic').

 

Toy Story 2 (1999)

by Jonathan Beller

Hey kids, if you haven’t seen Toy Story 2, better hurry so that you can find out what your toys are doing when you’re not watching. And maybe you’ll learn to show your toys a...

 

Toy Story 2 (1999)

by P. Nelson Reinsch

Near the end of the film The Matrix, Neo (Keanu Reeves) begins to understand his own power. When he realizes that everything he is seeing is a computer program, the payoff shot for this knowledge shows the screen filled with the 1s and 0s which make up the objects and people previously seen. The shot is stunning, and lays bare not only the program within the film's narrative universe, but also the computer work necessary to create the effects in The Matrix.

 

Galaxy Quest (1999)

by Jonathan Beller

In 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?"

 

Galaxy Quest (1999)

by Mike Ward

Robert 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.