washingtonpost.com - Stephen Hunter on MoviesStephen Hunter on MoviesTriggering Memories- April 23, 2005 The NRA museum is exhibiting an unprecedented gathering of tommy guns and other firearms of the '20s, '30s and '40s.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13871-2004Mar21.html?nav=rss_style/movies/s... Saint Nick's Polar Opposite- April 23, 2005 "Bad Santa," for good or ill, has been demographically engineered for the smallest interest group in America: those who hate Christmas.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14834-2003Nov25.html?nav=rss_style/movies/s... The Story Beneath That Calm Vermeer- April 23, 2005 "Girl With a Pearl Earring" -- the movie -- paints a relationship between the artist and his muse.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49841-2004Jan2.html?nav=rss_style/movies/st... The Killer Bride- April 23, 2005 "Kill Bill," Quentin Tarantino's first film in six years, is pure evil bliss. It's not pulp fiction; it's pulped fiction, a crazed phantasmagoria of high craft, low taste and middlebrow swordplay. - By Stephen Hunterhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6427-2003Oct9.html?nav=rss_style/movies/ste... Messages in a Battle- April 23, 2005 Stephen Hunter examines the treatment of war in such award-worthy epics as "Return of the King" and "Cold Mountain."http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15520-2003Dec19.html?nav=rss_style/movies/s... Heavy on the Ballast- April 23, 2005 The much ballyhooed and ultra-handsome "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World" suffers from what might be called colonitis. It comprises too many equal parts, and they tangle each other up. - By Stephen Hunterhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38542-2003Nov13.html?nav=rss_style/movies/s... The Good Fight- April 23, 2005 With "Return of the King," director Peter Jackson completes Tolkien's epic trilogy of evil vanquished.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3212-2003Dec15.html?nav=rss_style/movies/st... 'Wonderland': Down in the Valley, the Valley So Low- April 23, 2005 The porn star John Holmes, aka Johnny Wadd, is famous for one thing, but happily, "Wonderland" is not about that one thing. In fact, that one thing is more or less incidental to the story it tells.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38783-2003Oct16.html?nav=rss_style/movies/s... 'Love Don't Cost': In-Crowd Control- April 23, 2005 "Love Don't Cost a Thing" proves that the meek may indeed inherit the Earth. All they have to do is turn monstrous.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58127-2003Dec11.html?nav=rss_style/movies/s... 'Dopamine': A True Feel-Good Movie- April 23, 2005 Ben Affleck and Ali MacGraw.No, they're not in "Dopamine," but the kids who are -- John Livingston and Sabrina Lloyd -- look just enough like them to drive you crazy as you watch the film. So there, I've done you a big favor. Now you can concentrate on the movie.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6334-2003Oct9.html?nav=rss_style/movies/ste... |