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Heroes: Season 3 Finale and the State of the Show

by Chris Conaton

[30.Apr.09] :. Here we are at the end of a rocky three years for Heroes. I was a big fan of the show in the first season. It was never a great show, but it had moments of greatness, was consistently...

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Heroes: Season Three Premiere

by Todd R. Ramlow

[22.Sep.08] :. The real excitement of the new season of Heroes is its promise to expand the series' assortment of baddies: their unabashed queerness and freakery make for more fun.

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TV DVD Review

Heroes: Season 2

by Christel Loar

[2.Sep.08] :. Season 2 of Heroes had a lot to live up to. Some say it didn't quite succeed. This four-disc box set, loaded with extraordinary extra features, puts things right.

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PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007 Feature

High Redefinition: The 30 Best TV Shows of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[18.Jan.08] :. In memoriam of a TV season cut down before its prime time, PopMatters staff celebrates the Top 30 TV Shows of 2007. Some are old favorites. Others have barely made their impression felt. But at a time when all broadcast fortunes are up in the air, they definitely deserve the recognition.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007

Film Review

Resident Evil: Extinction

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Sep.07] :. Carlos (Oded Fehr) matches Alice's not-so-interesting self-importance with a wry, almost-alternate perspective, self-aware and even sometimes unexpected.

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Heroes: Season One

by Jack Patrick Rodgers

[11.Sep.07] :. Do we really need yet another story about people discovering supernatural abilities and learning to do good – or evil – with them? The answer: if it’s this good, why not?

Pressure is on for ‘Heroes’ as hit show faces its second season

by Hal Boedeker [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)]

[14.Aug.07] :. NBC found a lifeline with “Heroes,” the biggest new hit last season. The success will reverberate with the DVD release Aug. 28, at the Emmys Sept. 16 and in many new fall series that...

Net-Works: The Best TV of 2006

by PopMatters Staff

[10.Jan.07] :. You won't have to look far along your television dial to discover the Top TV picks from PopMatters staff. From 20 upward, each entry represents the boob tube at its best.

Heroes

by Marisa LaScala

[2.Oct.06] :. When his friend suggested he was deluding himself, Hiro said, "I want to be special." Subtlety is not going to be a strong suit in the series.

A Lot Like Love (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Aug.05] :. The Ashton Kutcher vehicle tries to make use of its stars' appeals, structuring a regular romantic comedy out of charmingly imperfect, well-performed moments.

A Lot Like Love (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Apr.05] :. Any movie that engineers a comic hijinksy highlight around Amanda Peet smacking herself into a glass door is not thinking too far beyond surfaces.

3-Way (2004)

by John G. Nettles

[28.Jun.04] :. Dwight Yoakam needs our support, and that's the only reason to watch 3-Way.

Final Destination 2 (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[30.Jan.03] :. The casualties are the film's raison d'etre -- the more incredible and creative, the better.

Final Destination (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Everything about Final Destination probably looks demented, if not downright silly. If you've seen the trailers playing for a couple of weeks now on youth-oriented TV, you will have seen the lame plot (a kid keeps his friends off a plane flight doomed to explode), ooky wind and thunder effects, the sweaty-faced and way too pale teens, and most effectively, Tony Todd's ominous rasp, 'You can't cheat death!'"

American Outlaws (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

It's grand, being so proficient at killing, and it's pretty darn All American too.