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Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999 Feature

Part 2: The Virgin Suicides to The Blair Witch Project (May - August 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[24.Mar.09] :. In Part Two of our look at the most memorable films of 1999, we experience music, foul-mouthed mayhem, and a late, great auteur's final cinematic statement.

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

 

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008 Feature

Back to Basics - The 30 Best TV Shows of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[12.Jan.09] :. The Year in TV was a lot like the US economy: struggling until summer and then tanking under the hope of a 2009 comeback. Still, our staff found 30 solid reasons to be cheerful come entertainment investment time.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008

 

PopMatters Picks: The Best of TV on DVD Feature

Part 3 - The New Networks

by PopMatters Staff

[10.Oct.07] :. It would never work... no one challenged the reigning broadcast junta and survived. No surprise then that the upstarts snuck in and changed the face of TV forever.

PopMatters Picks: The Best of TV on DVD

 

TV DVD Review

How I Met Your Mother: Season One

by Samantha Bornemann

[19.Dec.06] :. This is no static workplace comedy or rinse-repeat tale of funny family life. As the narration from the future reminds us, life as the characters know it is destined to end.

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Film DVD Review

Date Movie (Unrated) (2004)

by Roger Holland

[29.May.06] :. Date Movie is not the spoof it seemingly aspires to. Rather, it's but a dreadfully long catalog of references to other infinitely superior movies.

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TV Review

How I Met Your Mother

by Michael Abernethy

[3.Oct.05] :. The story of that meeting unfolds in what will surely become the longest flashback in TV history, especially if the series stays on the air beyond a season.

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Complete Seventh Season

by Mary Colgan

[13.Dec.04] :. Joss Whedon says, 'We sort of worship at the same altar. Me and my staff are the biggest Buffy nerds alive.'

 

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Complete Sixth Season

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.Jul.04] :. Buffy‘s sixth season is about death and resurrection, specifically, how to survive them. As the previous season ended with the death of Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar), the first task for...

 

American Wedding (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[1.Aug.03] :. Stifler's insufferable self-love is his special gift, of course, and what viewers love most about him.

 

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Complete Fourth Season

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Jun.03] :. That is, the season that many fans have called out as disjointed and erratic, maddening and disappointing. To a point, the complaint is justified, as Joss Whedon and company tend to concede. But only to a point.

 

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Lord of the Nerds

by Jesse Hassenger

[19.May.03] :. Buffy is often mentioned specifically as a "female empowerment" show, but one of its most inviting aspects is the way its cast has always been uncommonly split between guys and girls.

 

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

by Todd R. Ramlow

[18.Jun.02] :. As to the rejection of my understanding of the connection between lesbianism and witchcraft on 'Buffy', I have never said that BVS's creator or writers made a conscious (and consciously homophobic) decision to directly cast lesbianism as social pathology and physical addiction.

 

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

by Andrew Gilstrap

[10.Jun.02] :. To think of Willow and Tara only in terms of their lesbianism is to do a disservice to lovers who were fully realized, regardless of their gender or orientation.

 

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

by Todd R. Ramlow

[4.Jun.02] :. This was a tragic ending to one of prime-time television's most engaging love stories. More disturbing, as well as more socially and politically troublesome, however, is that Tara's death completes what has become a rather homophobic and pathological representation of lesbian desires and relationships over the course of the past season.

 

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Scooby Love

by Michael Abernethy

But the Scoobies have expanded the tv series, to include character study and analysis of the bonds of humankind.

 

Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Angel

by John G. Nettles

Given Buffy's track record for playing with conventions, there may be hope for Dawn Summers on the horizon, but as of now she is definitely the Scrappy-Doo of the Scooby Gang.

 

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Boys and Girls and Buffy - PopMatters Television Feature

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Surprises - PopMatters Television Feature

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer - We Could Be Heroes - PopMatters Television Feature

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer

by Michael Abernethy

With so much going for it, why isn't 'Buffy' the hottest show on television?

 

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Family Relations - PopMatters Television Feature

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Death Is What a Slayer Lives - PopMatters Television Feature

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Boys and Girls (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

As its title promises, Robert Iscove's romantic comedy features a number of boys and girls. Or rather, it features a number of character sketches standing in as boys and girls, rendered by actors whom you'd expect to be more careful about selecting projects.

 

American Pie 2 (2001)

by Todd R. Ramlow

PULL.