Reel Reviews | Gangster Squad
On the latest episode of Reel Shorts, guest critic, Cynthia Fuchs of PopMatters looks at the action crime film, Gangster Squad.
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Reel Reviews | Hope Springs
Cynthia Fuchs | PopMatters “Who in here is not having sex?†As Karen (Elizabeth Shue) asks her customers at the bar she’s tending in Great [read more]
Reel Reviews | Searching for Sugar Man
Two South African journalists investigate the whereabouts of an influential and mysterious rock icon that inspired a powerful movement in the touching and inspirational documentary, [read more]
Reel Reviews | The Watch
by Cynthia Fuchs | PopMatters “I don’t have a black friend yet,” says Evan (Ben Stiller) by way of introducing himself and his life in [read more]
Reel Reviews | Step Up Revolution
by Cynthia Fuchs | via PopMatters In Step Up Revolution‘s Miami, the beaches gleam white and the girls wear bikinis. For Sean (Ryan Guzman), the [read more]
Reel Reviews | Ruby Sparks
A novelist struggling with writer’s block discovers the true power of imagination when the subject of his novel comes to life in the romantic comedy, [read more]
Reel Reviews | The Dark Knight Rises
Eight years after sacrificing himself to give Gotham the hero it deserved, Batman must now overcome his own self doubts and a formidable new foe [read more]
Reel Reviews | Beasts of the Southern Wild
A mystical story provides the palette for an imaginative girl and her father as they battle apocalyptic conditions in the beautiful and poetic film, The Beasts of the Southern Wild.