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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

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The Good German (2006)

by Brian Holcomb

[27.Jul.07] :. Instead of a deeply involving present-tense drama, we get an essay on how such dramas used to look and work.

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Almighty Spidey spins out records

by Joe Gould and David Hinckley [New York Daily News (MCT)]

[7.May.07] :. Spider-Man spent the weekend spinning a worldwide web of pure gold. “Spider-Man 3,” bringing back Tobey Maguire as the red-suited comic hero Peter Parker and Kirsten Dunst as his...

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Spider-Man 3 (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[4.May.07] :. The point of Spider-Man 3, underscored by all the posters, trailers, and buzz, is black Spidey.

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A Guide to All Things Spider-Man

by Aaron Sagers, Ethan Alter, Kelly Federico [The Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.) (MCT)]

[2.May.07] :. Before you see Spider-Man 3, there's a few things you should know about the spider's lair. So go ahead, get tangled up in this extensive guide to Spider-Man's wonderful world-wide web.

Spider-Man returns for a bigger-than-ever third film

by Terry Lawson [Detroit Free Press (MCT)]

[1.May.07] :. The problem with the present? All anyone wants to talk about is the future. At least that’s the case with director Sam Raimi and the cast of Spider-Man 3, which opens nationwide...

Monkey Business (Part 1: May)

by Bill Gibron

[1.May.07] :. Talk about frontloading your approach. Each week in this first full month of patented popcorn movies finds another famous franchise icon making a major blockbuster bow. Only truly disastrous results from these guaranteed crowd-pleasers will keep the coffers from clogging with cash.

Spider-Man 2.1 - Unrated, Extended Cut (2004)

by Bill Gibron

[27.Apr.07] :. While Spider-Man 2.1 may add a few more dollars to the company coffers, it's definitely not doing the Spider Man series – or the digital domain – any real favors.

The Good German (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Dec.06] :. The Good German's visual evocations of 1940s movies only underscore its many deconstructions, of nostalgia, heroism, and political coherence.

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Dec.04] :. Uncomfortable with his abilities (they have come on him like a virus), Peter repeatedly returns to his central question: Who am I?"

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.Jul.04] :. Though Spider-Man plainly enjoys saving kids from danger and even instructing them ('Hey you guys! No playing in the street'), he also longs for a more regular, selfish life.

Spider-Man: Deluxe Edition (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Jun.04] :. On screen, Spider-Man necessarily becomes more literal, less imaginative.

Seabiscuit (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Jul.03] :. Engaging viewers emotionally, in a way that the rest of the summer's car chases and explosions can't even imagine doing, the racing scenes create an exhilarating rhythm for Seabiscuit's story.

Don’s Plum (1995)

by Nikki Tranter

[19.Dec.02] :. And so the clichés begin.

Spider-Man (2002)

by Todd R. Ramlow

[2.May.02] :. Spider-Man doesn't get caught up in its own snazzy special effects.

Wonder Boys (2000)

by Jonathan Beller

Hey there. If you find yourself pushing on past middle age and wondering why all your potential has only gotten you just where you are and not one iota farther, then Curtis Hanson's new film Wonder Boys may be your sunset tonic.

Wonder Boys (2000)

by Todd R. Ramlow

Curtis Hanson's Wonder Boys is very much concerned with the boys its title declares (or, rather, with a certain sort of boyish behavior). More to the point, it actually seems to wonder, as we do and as the characters do, what is to be done with them.

Ride with the Devil (1999)

by Todd R. Ramlow

Ride with the Devil is essentially two films in one. The first is a story of loyalty - to family, community, and nation - tested in the social and political upheavals of civil war. The second is a story of male bonding and love in a homosocial order, the negotiation of male-male desire, and male domestication, all triangulated and enabled through the body of a woman.

Ride with the Devil (1999)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Ride With the Devil dares to bring yet another version. Directed by Ang Lee and written by Lee and his usual collaborator James Schamus (who adapted Daniel Woodrell's novel Woe to Live On, a novel inspired, says the author, by today's warfare in the Balkans), the film is rather surprising, and not only because it stars Jewel as a Southern widow. Telling stories that don't usually get told, Ride With the Devil focuses on some of the War's more disgraceful and outrageous aspects, both personal and public.

Cats & Dogs (2001)

by Tracy McLoone

In 'Cats & Dogs', the colors are a little too bright, everything is a bit too perfect. And all is not as swell as the humans would think: it's 'American Beauty' for pets.

The Cider House Rules (1999)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Set in the 1930s and '40s, The Cider House Rules has a typically Irving-ian sense of scatter: the years sort of drift by, characters are sundry, and themes are vaguely related to each other. It could be that the film is concerned with the chronically troubled relations between parents (or their substitutes) and children...