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The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview Feature

Summer of Same: May 2009

by Bill Gibron

[27.Apr.09] :. May's titles include the fourth films in two aging franchises, more Pixar perfection, and the reboot of a TV series from 40 years ago. And they say there are no new ideas.

The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview

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

OMG - The 20 Worst Films of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[15.Jan.09] :. There's bad, and then there's 2008 level bad. You know this list is looking down into a deep dark bottomless pit of cinematic despair when Mike Myers' shameful Love Guru didn't even make the Top 20!

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

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The X-Factor: A look back at ‘The X-Files’ greatest monsters

by Connie Ogle [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[28.Jul.08] :. The exhaustive (and frequently exhausting) conspiracies of “The X-Files” - you know, the aliens, the black oil, the nasal implants, the bees, the unmarked helicopters, Agent...

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The X-Files: I Want to Believe

by Cynthia Fuchs

[25.Jul.08] :. In The X-Files: I Want to Believe, ooky canted shots of trundling agents in "FBI"-emblazoned jackets seem like refreshing counterprogramming amid the rumble of the season's action movies.

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‘X-Files’ More Dated than Daring

by Bill Gibron

[25.Jul.08] :. While some may consider it blasphemous, The X-Files was really nothing more than somber serious science fiction in an era overrun by otherwise slapdash space operatics. It channeled V,...

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The PopMatters Summer 2008 Movie Preview Feature

The Return of the Popcorn Circus: July 2008

by Bill Gibron

[30.Apr.08] :. And it just doesn't stop. If part two in this three-ring play was packed with well hyped product, July just keeps the receipt treats coming.

The PopMatters Summer 2008 Movie Preview

Griffin & Phoenix

by Amos Posner

[4.Dec.07] :. It’s hard to tell whether first-time director Ed Stone set out to make the saddest romantic-comedy of all time or to see how much comic relief could be crammed into a maudlin drama.

Studio 60 Live on the Sunset Strip: The Complete Series

by Mehera Bonner

[26.Nov.07] :. Despite its purported faults (critics were divided), Studio 60 Live on the Sunset Strip holds up well on DVD, as viewers can quickly proceed to the next episode without losing momentum, without losing the smart, subtextual thread of the prior episode.

Martian Child

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.Nov.07] :. Based on David Gerrold's semi-autobiographical novella, the movie digs its thematic hole early, and never finds a way out.

The Ex (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.May.07] :. Zach Braff just gets more annoying by the minute. Braff brings what he always does -- a basic mopey charm, some sarcasm, even a rudimentary self-awareness.

Networks are still toying with viewers

by Rick Kushman [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[2.May.07] :. I have good news and I have a gripe. The good news: Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip will be back on the air starting May 24, though it’s still a long-odds bet that NBC will renew it. And...

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.

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

by Daynah Burnett

[18.Sep.06] :. Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip plays a lot like a lip-glossed The West Wing. Not a bad thing necessarily, but not a radical rethinking of primetime TV either.

Syriana (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Jun.06] :. If you come away with nothing else from Syriana, it's that this concept -- winning -- is an illusion, at least in any sort of long run.

Syriana (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Nov.05] :. This Middle Eastern spy thriller is complex and earnest, a film that repays close attention.

Melinda and Melinda (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[25.Oct.05] :. In Melinda and Melinda, full of women struggling to make their desires known to men who suppose they know what women want and mean, the women are infinitely less regular and more interesting.

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.

Melinda and Melinda (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Mar.05] :. Hobie rejiggers his life in order to make himself look 'available' for Melinda, the joke being that the Allen character is never actually available, but rather, needy, fervent, and clumsily scheming.

Something’s Gotta Give (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Mar.04] :. Something's Gotta Give is best when it backs off the cute dialogue and the actors create their own moments.

Something’s Gotta Give (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Dec.03] :. Overstays its welcome, yes, but worse, it pretends like it's news when it isn't.

Identity (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Sep.03] :. As James Mangold neatly puts it, these characters are running along 'a kind of Möbius strip of hell.'"

Identity (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Apr.03] :. Amanda Peet, not incidentally, throws some fine, even sublime, attitude.

Igby Goes Down (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Sep.02] :. Burr Steers' first feature is populated by exceptionally quirky characters, most related by blood.

Changing Lanes (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Apr.02] :. PULL.

High Crimes (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[4.Apr.02] :. 'High Crimes' is a movie starring Ashley Judd whom someone has determined is the ideal Flinty Woman in Danger.

The Whole Nine Yards (2000)

by Lesley Smith

WARNING: The following review contains spoilers. The Denominator of Denial The director of The Whole Nine Yards, Jonathan Lynn, used to specialize in delectable mayhem...

The Whole Nine Yards (2000)

by Jonathan Beller

WARNING: The following review contains spoilers. Executing Reality The poster advertisement for Warner Brothers’ current release, The Whole Nine Yards, reads...

Whipped (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

While Whipped's general organization -- three guys competing for one woman, all knowing about one another, all showing up at her apartment at the same time -- is pretty much directly ripped off from Spike Lee's groundbreaking She's Gotta Have It, here the focus is not on the she, but the three he's.

Saving Silverman (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

I’d say it’s official: Amanda Peet is the reigning go-to-girl for neo-romantic comedies involving nasty jokes about death, sex, and what might be best described as “control...