Articles tagged "tony shalhoub"

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Wings: Final Season

by Stephen Snart

[6.May.09] :. Dependable but not exceptional and with the right expectations, a certain amount of enjoyment can still be found.

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Monk: Season Six

by Andrew Winistorfer

[4.Aug.08] :. If season seven doesn’t prove more interesting, I’m ready to wash my hands (repeatedly) of Monk.

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Just like his character, ‘Monk’ star Tony Shalhoub is a perfectionist

by Luaine Lee [McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)]

[14.Jul.08] :. Before he became a working actor Tony Shalhoub was - what else? - a waiter, many times over. “I was always on the verge of being fired because the manager kept saying, ‘You have to go...

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‘Monk’ sesson finale suffers not from OCD, but a split personality

by Diane Werts [Newsday (MCT)]

[15.Feb.08] :. It’s kind of hard to take a killer seriously when you hear that police dogs have determined “it’s as if he stopped and touched every tree” during his supposedly desperate...

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Sacco and Vanzetti

by Ryan Scott

[14.Sep.07] :. Director Peter Miller should be commended for his determination to craft this well known story without bombast and sensation, but rather with intelligence and compassion.

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Book, DVD put spotlight on executions of Sacco and Vanzetti

by Bruce Dancis [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[24.Aug.07] :. Bombings were terrorizing the government. Immigrants suspected of radical political leanings were being rounded up and deported, while others who had recently come to the United States were viewed...

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Friday the 13th brings a new mess of troubles for Monk

by Cristina Kinon [New York Daily News (MCT)]

[12.Jul.07] :. You’d think an obsessive-compulsive with phobias would be hesitant to even step out of the house on Friday the 13th, but Tony Shalhoub, who plays such a character on USA’s hit show...

The Great New Wonderful (2005)

by Jesse Hassenger

[8.Sep.06] :. This 9/11 film is subtle to a fault; this is a quality you may not expect in a film from Danny Leiner, master of the vehicular stoner comedy.

The Great New Wonderful (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Aug.06] :. Lack of understanding will be a sort of theme for Danny Leiner's film, uneven but full of rewarding subtleties.

Cars (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Jun.06] :. Thrilling in its shiny surface detail, the NASCAR scene stretches before you like an anthropomorphized vista: this is the immediate future of animation, and Pixar, recently and loudly sold to Disney, means to own it.

Monk

by Michael Abernethy

[26.Jan.06] :. Now entering its fourth season, Monk finds itself in a precarious position.

Against the Ropes (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Jul.04] :. 'It seemed like a microcosm of life,' says Jackie Kallen of boxing.

Against the Ropes (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Feb.04] :. Reasonably angry, distrustful, and full of himself, Luther (Omar Epps) brings all kinds of energy to the movie.

Monk

by Valerie Franch

[22.Jul.02] :. If the energy and originality of the storylines catch up with Monk and Sharon's dynamic, the series can only improve.

Life or Something Like It (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[25.Apr.02] :. Most regrettably, Lanie's not a crazy chick at all.

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.