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Celulloid Culpability - Top 10 Film Guilty Pleasures of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[13.Jan.09] :. Like comedy or music, one's choice in cinematic pleasure can be very personal - and very peculiar. Take this tantalizing list of shameful indulgences. You can argue over their artistic value, but their individuals rewards definitely speak to those who champion them.

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

 

Film DVD Review

Doomsday

by Evan Sawdey

[18.Aug.08] :. All the satirical/B-movie homage aspects of this movie emerge only in retrospect: not during the actual viewing itself.

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Doomsday: Unrated (2008)

by Bill Gibron

[26.Jul.08] :. Some films commit the cardinal cinematic sin of being too smart for their own good. They smugly announce their importance, challenging you to hate them if only to expose your own lack of...

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Film Review

Doomsday

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Mar.08] :. If there's a single image worth contemplating in Doomsday, it's Eden's strapping lats and shoulders.

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Film Review

Hollywoodland (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Sep.06] :. Simo is as self-inflating and lost as George Reeves, his heroism as flimsy and sad.

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Film Review

Mrs. Henderson Presents (2005)

by Jesse Hicks

[23.Feb.06] :. Mrs. Henderson (Judi Dench) is 'old money', but age and wealth haven't dulled her tongue or tempered her personality.

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Stay (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Oct.05] :. Often evocative, sometimes audacious, and finally undone by an inelegant close, Stay is less interested in story than in impressions.

 

Unleashed (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.May.05] :. At once ferocious and delicate, brilliantly choreographed by Yuen Wo-Ping, the fights are like dance numbers.

 

Son of the Mask (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Feb.05] :. The baby is endowed with awesome powers to shape-shift and abuse every living creature that comes within reach of his chubby little hands.

 

Beyond the Sea (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Dec.04] :. Kevin Spacey looks alternately fatigued and awkward as Bobby Darin.

 

Vanity Fair (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Sep.04] :. Ah, to be young, bright, and scheming in 19th-century Britain!"

 

Hook (1991)

by Jesse Hassenger

[15.Sep.03] :. Hook is thoroughly watchable, often amusing, fitfully entertaining.

 

Maid in Manhattan (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.Apr.03] :. Jennifer Lopez has made a lucrative habit of reprising her story in most of her fictional incarnations.

 

Maid in Manhattan (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Dec.02] :. This 'ethnic' modification of 'Pretty Woman'-meets-'Working Girl' uses the 'iconic' Lopez strategically.

 

Last Orders (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

All this reminiscing might easily turn melodramatic, but for the most part, 'Last Orders' avoids tear-jerking and grand emotional revelations.

 

Last Orders (2002)

by Kirsten Markson

Last Orders, based on the Graham Swift novel of the same name, is a sentimental film that traces the friendships of four elderly Londoners. The title refers both to the final call for drinks...

 

Felicia’s Journey (1999)

by Mike Ward

“Don’t let it go too far,” the Felicia of this film’s title is advised, as she searches for the father of her unborn child in an Irish pub. “Enough to say...

 

Felicia’s Journey (1999)

by Cynthia Fuchs

The Canadian-based filmmaker Atom Egoyan has taken a different approach to the serial killer in his new film, Felicia's Journey. There's not much here that you would call sensational, no decapitated corpses, no flayed flesh, no nymphets taking ominous phone calls. Rather, the movie follows two characters, neither particularly introspective or self-aware, and both feeling nostalgia for what never was.

 

Enemy at the Gates (2001)

by Mike Ward

This is Enemy at the Gates's most elegant theme, one that its often heavy-handed melodrama almost but not quite diminishes: that to be observed is to die, but to be invisible and quiet as the dead may allow you to survive.