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发表于2008-12-25 19:29
<P>So far my experiences with Disney's "direct-to-video" (DTV) animation haven' t been particularly compelling. Of the programs I've watched, they've been mildly entertaining at best but have tended to appear pretty lackluster and uninspired. <…[全文»]
评论： 发表于2008-12-25 19:31
Teaming Stewart, Sullavan and Morgan, just as in Borzage's The Mortal Storm (made the same year), this also deals with troubled romance in Central Europe, though here the threat is not Nazism but pride and the interference of others, as Stewart…[全文»]
发表于2008-12-25 19:37
<P>And, in terms of Antonio Banderas, this is a good thing. The compelling actor, who has long been chocked up as mere sizzle (the man could make baking muffins a passionate, smoldering experience), has always managed to magically combine his m…[全文»]
发表于2008-12-25 19:41
<P>`The Illusionist is the kind of film that could too easily get lost in the summertime crowd, which is a shame because it's a lot a fun - an infectious mix of romance, mystery, and magic. Filmmaker Neil Burger (Interview with an Assassin), ad…[全文»]
发表于2008-12-25 19:42
<P>If there’s one thing that’s clear from this revue of ABBA’s hit songs, it’s that there really aren’t all that many great ABBA songs, hits or no. “Dancing Queen,” sure, and “Take a Chance on Me” are pretty catchy, I’ll grant, and ma…[全文»]
发表于2008-12-25 19:57
<P>The biopic genre has taken a critical and commercial drubbing of late, what with Sofia Coppola's Elle-magazine version of Marie Antoinette and Steven Shainberg's egregiously misconceived Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus. Sadly, the …[全文»]
发表于2008-12-25 20:02
<P>Martian Child wants to make us cry. It nearly made me gag. This is an exercise in shameless and inept emotional manipulation. The film doesn't try to hide what it's doing. If you don't cry, it hasn't worked. There's not a single genuine huma…[全文»]
发表于2008-12-25 18:50
While shooting Pretty Persuasion, Thirteen star Evan Rachel Wood was said by the crew to be “a teenage version of Nicole Kidman in To Die For”. And with good reason. A slender, frosty and pathologically ambitious high-schooler who is fully aw…[全文»]
发表于2008-12-25 20:09
<P>Ernst Lubitsch, Hollywood's master of sophisticated comedy in the continental manner, surprised movie audiences with The Shop Around the Corner (1940), a sentimental, homespun story of combative coworkers in a Budapest leather-goods store wh…[全文»]
发表于2008-12-25 20:13
<P>Who knew gymnastics was so counterculture?</P>
<P>I pose this question as a joke, of course, though there's always been something different and, dare I say, weird about female competitive gymnastics. Those hard-nosed, nutty coaches; those …[全文»]
发表于2008-12-25 20:16
<P>"Around the Bend" feels as if it were written in the immediate aftermath of a particularly inspirational screenwriting seminar, in which all the secrets of the mythic plot, the emotional growth trajectory and the big reveal had been meticulo…[全文»]
发表于2008-12-25 20:18
<P>I have nothing against historical fiction: books or movies using real characters in situations that didn't happen. However, one would hope in such cases that the authors would have a story worth telling. That's not the case with Copying Beet…[全文»]
发表于2008-12-25 20:24
<P>Phone Booth became one of a number of post-9/11 films to fall victim to an increasing reluctance on the part of motion picture studios to release movies where on-screen events echo real-world tragedies. Joel Schumacher's thriller was origina…[全文»]
发表于2008-12-25 20:27
When a “heartwarming” holiday movie is this hamfisted, the best response is to slap some pineapple slices on it, throw it in the oven, and serve it for Christmas dinner. It’s the only way to make it palatable. Oh, the Whitfield clan is gathe…[全文»]
发表于2008-12-25 20:43
<P>Imagine "E.T." as a towering metal man, and you have some of the appeal of "The Iron Giant," an enchanting animated feature about a boy who makes friends with a robot from outer space. The giant crash-lands on a 1957 night when America is pe…[全文»]
