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Film DVD Review

Changeling

by Stephen Snart

[19.Feb.09] :. There’s a touch of Arthur Miller in the way the audiences emotions are played in this story of challenging authority.

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

The New Classics - The 30 Best Films of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[16.Jan.09] :. Unlike previous years, where classics came crawling out of the celluloid woodwork with regular reckless abandon, 2008 was more calm… and considered. That's not to say that choosing 30 top titles was hard. The difficulty in placing them in some manner of rank order suggests the actual depth of quality involved.

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

 

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

Tough and Tender - The Top 20 Female Performances of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[14.Jan.09] :. Twenty talented ladies, 20 performances worthy of multiple little gold men. Unfortunately, as in all years, someone has to come out on top. But after looking over this impressive list, picking the preeminent turn of 2008 seems almost impossible.

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

 

Short Ends and Leader

Narrative Choices Challenge ‘Changeling’s Effectiveness

by Bill Gibron

[30.Oct.08] :. The Clint Eastwood renaissance has been a joy to behold. While many thought his 1992 Oscar for Unforgiven would mark the culmination of an amazing, four decade long career, the new millennium...

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Film Review

Changeling

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Oct.08] :. A movie made with awards season in mind, Changeling offers extravagant affects and overwritten speeches.

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Column: The Screener

Identities in Flux

by Chris Barsanti

[24.Oct.08] :. Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York is performance art as civilization-annihilating Godzilla, whereas Eastwood's Changeling is a film that wins the stranger than fiction category, hands-down.

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Talk, Talk, Talk: October 2008

by Bill Gibron

[10.Sep.08] :. What studio suit thought this was a good idea? With four months to schedule your high priced efforts, you instead unload almost 30 overpriced pictures on an unsuspecting movie audience.

 

Supporting actress nomination raises Amy Ryan’s profile

by John Anderson [Newsday (MCT)]

[28.Jan.08] :. She chalks it up to coincidence, but whatever the cause, actress Amy Ryan is everywhere. As the drug-abusing mother in Ben Affleck’s “Gone Baby Gone” or Ethan Hawke’s...

 

A Gallery of Good Works: The Best Films of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[11.Jan.08] :. From Julian Schnabel's artsy The Diving Bell and the Butterfly to the legendary Coen Brothers splendid adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men, PopMatters counts down the 30 best films of 2007.

 

Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Female

by PopMatters Staff

[9.Jan.08] :. From the most sweetly nuanced performance of Jennifer Jason Leigh's career to Cate Blanchett's revelatory portrayal of Bob Dylan in I'm Not There, the women of 2007 were stellar.

 

Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Male

by PopMatters Staff

[9.Jan.08] :. From the tender and eerie precision of Sam Riley's depiction of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis in Control to yet another superlative performance by Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood, PopMatters highlights the best male actors of 2007.

 

Ben Affleck directs new movie rather than stars in it

by Rene Rodriguez [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[19.Oct.07] :. When Ben Affleck took the recommendation of several friends and read Dennis Lehane’s novel “Gone Baby Gone,” he immediately started thinking about adapting it into a film. He just...

 

The up-and-coming Affleck: younger brother Casey, in 2 new films

by Steven Rea [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[19.Oct.07] :. TORONTO—Don’t underestimate Casey Affleck, the reedy-voiced, baby-faced actor, who is younger brother to Ben. Like the character he plays in “Gone Baby Gone”—the...

 

Gone Baby Gone

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Oct.07] :. Part noir, part moralizing, and part urban-malaisey, the movie offers an assembly of seedy sorts who make Patrick's quest look increasingly hopeless but also ineffably gallant.

 

Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Jan.06] :. Despite its title, Albert Brooks' new movie, like all his movies, is about his world.