Articles tagged "billy connolly"

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

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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Film Review

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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Short Ends and Leader

‘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,...

Short Ends and Leader

 

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

 

Monkey Business (Part 2: June)

by Bill Gibron

[2.May.07] :. Apparently, as the sun's strongest rays finally settle over the movie going public, sequels are the remedy to cool down an overheated demographic. This month alone holds five examples of such redux refreshment. The rest of the choices are a variety pack of genres, ideas and possibilities.

 

Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events: Special Collector’s Edition (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Apr.05] :. Based on three Snicket books, the film mostly takes the kids' perspective, and so delights in the gooey and the ooky.

 

Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Dec.04] :. Elastic and not a little ewwwy, Jim Carrey's Olaf is fond of his own unclever pronouncements and unsubtle when it comes to plotting.

 

Timeline (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Apr.04] :. For a group of scientists, they are almost shockingly inattentive to details and to historical facts.

 

Timeline (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[4.Dec.03] :. Based on Michael Crichton's novel, Richard Donner's movie features a creaky father-son reconciliation story framed by a bizarre collision of Sci-Fi and Medieval Tymes.

 

White Oleander (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Oct.02] :. Seems stuck in first gear, grinding through a series of very "safe" clichés.

 

The Man Who Sued God (2001)

by Nikki Tranter

[16.Jan.02] :. PULL.

 

An Everlasting Piece (2000)

by Renee Scolaro Rathke

Just in case there is an audience member who hasn't seen the news since, like, 1970, the film uses this conversation and some supposedly comic comparisons between the Catholic and Protestant neighborhoods to illustrate Colm's inferior position in society (and by extension, the position of Belfast's Catholics generally).