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

Part 1: The Thin Red Line to Star Wars Episode I (January - May 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[23.Mar.09] :. The first part of PopMatters' look back at the films of 1999 is bookended by the long awaited return of two cinematic auteurs of wildly different styles, Terrence Malick and George Lucas.

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

 

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Hollywood, race and the Age of Obama

by Christopher Kelly [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[26.Dec.08] :. Gook. Dragon lady. Swamp rats. These are but a few of the cringe-inducing racial epithets spewed by Clint Eastwood’s Walt Kowalski in “Gran Torino,” the cringe-inducing new drama...

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TV DVD Review

Prison Break: Season 3

by Jake Meaney

[22.Sep.08] :. The great thing about watching this show on DVD, rather than on TV, is that it doesn’t allow you a chance to actually sit and think about it.

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TV Review

Prison Break

by Cynthia Fuchs

[1.Sep.08] :. Prison Break has never lacked for the burly grrr factor.

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TV Review

Prison Break

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Sep.07] :. The start of Prison Break's third season is exactly right: a crowd of gnarly, noisy men, surrounded by prison walls and doused by rain.

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Film DVD Review

Blades of Glory

by Jesse Hassenger

[10.Sep.07] :. It takes genuine pros to make the mock-sport movie look like a worthwhile competition. A brisk, disposable amusement.

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oFirst Snow (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Apr.07] :. Any movie that finds a place for the remarkable Jackie Burroughs begins with bonus points.

 

Prison Break

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Sep.06] :. Much as the Scofields despise the abject corruption that got them into this fix, they plainly feel less affinity for shadows than full-on righteousness. They believe they can get even.

 

Invasion

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Mar.06] :. It's in the consideration of race and race differences that Invasion has emerged in its first season as one of television's most insightful terrorism-scare shows.

 

Invasion

by Bill Gibron

[28.Sep.05] :. Invasion is the best Stephen King series he never penned.

 

Crash (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.May.05] :. The lesson seems geared toward those viewers who were surprised by the Rodney King video, that is, people who don't regularly deal with cultural collisions.

 

Black Hawk Down: Superbit (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Jun.04] :. Black Hawk Down illustrates well the absurdity and chaos of urban warfare: there's no ground to be won, no victory to be claimed.

 

Equilibrium (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Dec.02] :. Hooray for kicking opponents' heads in, fancy wirework, and twirling black topcoats.

 

Black Hawk Down (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Jun.02] :. An action movie dressed up like an art film, 'Black Hawk Down' is not about betrayal or anger, but heroism and patriotic fervor.

 

What’s the Worst That Could Happen? (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Martin Lawrence and Danny DeVito are doing that non-mating mating dance that buddy characters tend to do, with too much spastic energy and not nearly enough inspiration.

 

Passion of Mind (1999)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Sometimes it’s hard to say when a film goes wrong. It may be a brief image that looks out of place or bit of dialogue that sounds stilted and silly enough to make an audience laugh out...

 

Black Hawk Down (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

An action movie dressed up like an art film, 'Black Hawk Down' is not about betrayal or anger, but heroism and patriotic fervor.