Release Date: March 6
Director/Writer: Daniel Barnz
Cinematographer: Geoff Boyle
Starring: Felicity Huffman, Elle Fanning, Patricia Clarkson, Bill Pullman, Campbell Scott
Studio/Run Time: THiNKFilm, 96 mins.
Not many films focus on the realities of dealing with special-needs children, so perhaps Phoebe in Wonderland should be given some points for trying to say something meaningful on the subject, even if it quickly becomes bogged down with its own contrivances. The film centers on Phoebe (Elle Fanning), who because of an obvious disorder is having difficulty at school and gradually drifting into her own world. A lead role in the student production of Alice in Wonderland gives her an outlet and escape for her energies, while her strange drama teacher’s idiosyncratic nature offers her emotional strength. But when she acts up again, the stage role is stripped away from her in the typically ineffective remove-the-one-thing-giving-this-child-hope form of punishment.
Director/Writer: Daniel Barnz
Cinematographer: Geoff Boyle
Starring: Felicity Huffman, Elle Fanning, Patricia Clarkson, Bill Pullman, Campbell Scott
Studio/Run Time: THiNKFilm, 96 mins.
Not many films focus on the realities of dealing with special-needs children, so perhaps Phoebe in Wonderland should be given some points for trying to say something meaningful on the subject, even if it quickly becomes bogged down with its own contrivances. The film centers on Phoebe (Elle Fanning), who because of an obvious disorder is having difficulty at school and gradually drifting into her own world. A lead role in the student production of Alice in Wonderland gives her an outlet and escape for her energies, while her strange drama teacher’s idiosyncratic nature offers her emotional strength. But when she acts up again, the stage role is stripped away from her in the typically ineffective remove-the-one-thing-giving-this-child-hope form of punishment.
- 3/6/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
Release Date: Feb. 27
Director: Andrzej Bartkowiak
Writer: Justin Marks
Cinematographer: Geoff Boyle
Cast: Kristin Kreuk, Chris Klein, Neal McDonough, Robin Shou, Moon Bloodgood
Studio/Run Time: Fox, 97 mins.
Martial-arts snooze barely makes it off the assembly line
In the singularly witless thriller Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, a lovely woman named Chun-Li (Kristin Kreuk) heads on a fuzzily reasoned mission to find her father, stop a crazed Irishman and save a whole lot of poor people in Bangkok along the way. As with all the women in the movie, she wears clothes that fit her and then some, and she smacks around apparent bad guys in a fetishistic routine of dominance that befalls all men in reach of her body suit.
Director: Andrzej Bartkowiak
Writer: Justin Marks
Cinematographer: Geoff Boyle
Cast: Kristin Kreuk, Chris Klein, Neal McDonough, Robin Shou, Moon Bloodgood
Studio/Run Time: Fox, 97 mins.
Martial-arts snooze barely makes it off the assembly line
In the singularly witless thriller Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, a lovely woman named Chun-Li (Kristin Kreuk) heads on a fuzzily reasoned mission to find her father, stop a crazed Irishman and save a whole lot of poor people in Bangkok along the way. As with all the women in the movie, she wears clothes that fit her and then some, and she smacks around apparent bad guys in a fetishistic routine of dominance that befalls all men in reach of her body suit.
- 3/3/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
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