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Articles tagged "timothy spall" Film DVD ReviewSweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Streetby Jack Patrick Rodgers[2.Apr.08] :. Burton indulges in meticulously designed, deliberately artificial sets, cinematography that makes the world monochromatic, protagonists with pale skin and sunken eyes – but it's that passion coursing beneath the surface that makes this film feel more alive than anything he's done in years. PopMatters Pick Film ReviewSweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Streetby Cynthia Fuchs[21.Dec.07] :. Sweeney Todd is delirious with blood and violence: bright red spurting from the barber's expert slashes, necks snapping and bodies crumpling.  Film ReviewEnchantedby Cynthia Fuchs[21.Nov.07] :. Giselle (Amy Adams) has the ideal animated life.  Film ReviewHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[3.Jun.04] :. Director Alfonso Cuarón brings to the franchise a newly inventive sensibility, and, most important, an appreciation for smart cuts and brevity, especially the requisite Quidditch scene, mercifully short, dark, and stormy.  Film ReviewThe Last Samurai (2003)by Cynthia Fuchs[4.Dec.03] :. It's a grand vehicle, with horses, martial arts, and vast armies, not to mention Tom Cruise's shiny shoulder-length hair flowing just right.  Film ReviewIntimacy (2001)by Kirsten MarksonWordless sex suddenly seems more appealing than the nasty arguments that repeatedly erupt. " Love’s Labour’s Lost (2000)by Ben VarkentineIn the hands of able actors, Shakespeare's 'taffeta phrases, silken terms, precise, three-piled hyperboles, and spruce affections' are a passport to the land of milk and honey. Topsy Turvy (1999)by Josh JonesBritish director Mike Leigh has turned out a string of critically lauded short and feature length films, as well as a number of television films for the BBC. He is perhaps best known on this side of... The Wisdom of Crocodiles (1998)by Cynthia FuchsThe Wisdom of Crocodiles begins with some breathtakingly handsome images. So striking and unusual, in fact, that it’s only toward the end of the scene that you come to recognize the... |
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