Articles tagged "zuleikha robinson"

TV Review

New Amsterdam

by Cynthia Fuchs

[4.Mar.08] :. On its surface, New Amsterdam is yet another show featuring a detective with a gimmick.

Recent TV reviews

 

Film DVD Review

The Namesake

by Josh Timmermann

[28.Nov.07] :. Whatever else you get out of this movie -- a give-take equation that depends largely on your willingness to follow Nair’s lead -- it’s worth watching for Tabu’s superlative turn alone, which would earn her an Oscar if there were any justice in the First World.

Recent DVD reviews

 

Film Feature

Unbridled with Life: Interview with Mira Nair

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Mar.07] :. With The Namesake, based on Jhumpa Lahiri's popular novel, Mira Nair has found an ideal subject -- a family full of complex characters who spend their lives traversing traditions and expectations.

Recent features

 
PopMatters Pick

Film Review

The Namesake (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Mar.07] :. Attentive to surfaces as well as nuances, Mira Nair's adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri's novel, The Namesake, is about legacies and responsibilities, ambitions and dislocations.

Recent Film reviews

 

TV DVD Review

The Lone Gunmen - The Complete Series

by Jesse Hassenger

[24.May.05] :. Being a network TV show and therefore bound by certain attractiveness requirements, The Lone Gunmen couldn't just follow the nerds.

Recent DVD reviews

 

Film DVD Review

William Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.May.05] :. Pacino contains Shylock's temper as reaction, looking simultaneously vile and vulnerable, hardly a simple balance.

Recent DVD reviews

 

Hidalgo (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Aug.04] :. 'Being out in the middle of the Arabian desert,' says Mortensen, 'you could easily imagine what it must have been like.'"

 

Hidalgo (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[4.Mar.04] :. Hidalgo is the story of this horse and his man.

 

The Lone Gunmen

by Sabadino Parker

Unlike Federal Agent Fox Mulder, these guys, sitting penniless in a warehouse laden with powerful computers and espionage equipment, are true subversives.