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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 DVD Review

Titanic: 10th Anniversary Edition

by Jesse Hassenger

[14.Dec.07] :. 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.

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TV Review

Big Love

by Jesse Hicks

[2.Jul.07] :. Big Love generally handles the Henricksons' faith respectfully, but there's no forgetting that they are polygamists.

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PopMatters Picks: The 50 DVDs Every Film Fan Should Own Feature

Part 4: Challenging Convention

by PopMatters Staff

[21.Jun.07] :. 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.

PopMatters Picks: The 50 DVDs Every Film Fan Should Own

 

TV Review

Big Love

by Bill Gibron

[23.Mar.06] :. 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.

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Film Review

The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[30.Sep.05] :. In the wholly predictable and often cloying The Greatest Game Ever Played, Shia LeBeouf plays amateur golfer Francis Ouimet.

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Predator 2: Special Edition (1990)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Jan.05] :. 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.'"

 

Thunderbirds (2004)

by Todd R. Ramlow

[30.Jul.04] :. 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.

 

Broken Lizard’s Club Dread (2004)

by Jesse Hassenger

[4.Mar.04] :. 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.

 

Ghosts of the Abyss (2003)

by Jennifer D. Wesley

[24.Apr.03] :. Bill Paxton's banal banter and overacting alienate us, as we try to ignore him and focus on the live-action images of Titanic.

 

Frailty (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Apr.02] :. Moody, perverse, and full to busting with metaphorical cautions.

 

Vertical Limit (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Forces of nature make for excellent movie villains. Twisters, storms at sea, icebergs, earthquakes, wild rivers full of snakes, volcanoes -- they're all big, bad, easily recognizable bullies, mainly because, by definition, they never pick on anyone their own size.

 

U-571 (2000)

by Mike Ward

A Nazi U-boat commander, peering through a periscope, locks a merchant ship in his sights. After giving the order to fire, he studies the ship's flaming wreckage and proclaims that the crew has succeeded in breaking her back.