Friday, January 18 2008
High Redefinition: The 30 Best TV Shows of 2007
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.
Friday, December 14 2007
Titanic: 10th Anniversary Edition
While it's understandable that after raising one of film history's most massive success stories from the depths of potential financial ruin, Cameron might rest on his laurels a bit, you sometimes get the feeling that he has spent a good chunk of his post-Titanic life still thinking about Titanic.
Monday, July 2 2007
Big Love
Big Love generally handles the Henricksons' faith respectfully, but there's no forgetting that they are polygamists.
Thursday, June 21 2007
Part 4: Challenging Convention
As cinema went completely commercial, abandoning art for artifice, true aesthetic acumen was hard to come by. Luckily, for the movies included herein, it was their difference, as well as their diversity, that helped them stand out from the rest of the high concept hackwork.
Thursday, March 23 2006
Big Love
Big Love illustrates the ways the cell phone serves as faux 'intimacy'. Everyone voice mails or pages each other, creating bland clips of conversation without contexts.
Friday, September 30 2005
The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005)
In the wholly predictable and often cloying The Greatest Game Ever Played, Shia LeBeouf plays amateur golfer Francis Ouimet.
Wednesday, January 26 2005
Predator 2: Special Edition (1990)
According to director Stephen Hopkins, 'Los Angeles, with all its glare and dust, felt like a Western town to us, sort of a mining town that had been shoved up really quickly.'"
Friday, July 30 2004
Thunderbirds (2004)
The only possible reason I can see for this screen version is the marketing opportunities embodied by the Thunderbirds themselves and their 'super-advanced technology' ships and gadgets.
Thursday, March 4 2004
Broken Lizard’s Club Dread (2004)
A hedonistic island vacation run by washed-up Coconut Pete sounds like a great place for any kind of mayhem, and some does ensue. Just not quite enough.
Thursday, April 24 2003
Ghosts of the Abyss (2003)
Bill Paxton's banal banter and overacting alienate us, as we try to ignore him and focus on the live-action images of Titanic.
