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Film Review

The Hangover

by Todd R. Ramlow

[5.Jun.09] :. The Hangover is yet another cinematic celebration of piggy boy grossity.

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The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview Feature

Summer of Same: June 2009

by Bill Gibron

[28.Apr.09] :. This month's "original" fare offers a take on a Sid and Marty Krofft classic, more battling seizure robots, and the retaking of '70s subway thriller. Everything old is new again.

The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview

 

Film Review

He’s Just Not That Into You

by Renee Scolaro Mora

[6.Feb.09] :. He’s Just Not That Into You is a standard chick flick, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing: it’s cute and comic and organized according to fixed, mostly ancient gender roles.

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

Iconic - The Top 20 Male Performances of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[14.Jan.09] :. Like the gladiators of old, 2008 resembles a battle of formidable acting gods, especially when looking over the 20 choices presented below. Indeed, if anything, choosing a winner requires more of a leap of faith than any amount of critical skill - they all were that good.

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

 

Film Review

Yes Man

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Dec.08] :. Carl (Jim Carrey) meets the incredible Allison (Zooey Deschanel), a girl so completely charming and dazzlingly unpredictable that he is instantly convinced of the rightness of yes.

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Short Ends and Leader

‘Yes’ is Better Premise than Product

by Bill Gibron

[18.Dec.08] :. It’s a very interesting question indeed: outside of a single turn as the voice of a cartoon elephant, is Jim Carrey still a viable box office draw? Better still, in a world filled with...

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Midnight Meat Train

by Bill Gibron

[15.Oct.08] :. Though fans love to toss them into the same supernatural boat, Clive Barker and his main inspiration Stephen King have very little in common. The man from Maine works in a traditional terror...

 

Talk, Talk, Talk: December 2008

by Bill Gibron

[12.Sep.08] :. Just like the end of an inspiring speech that may or may not succeed in making its point, these final four weeks before 2009 tend to define or defeat the entire awards season purpose.

 

The Return of the Popcorn Circus: August 2008

by Bill Gibron

[1.May.08] :. Talk about a crowded schedule. There are more offerings scheduled this month than in the previous two combined.

 

Kitchen Confidential - The Complete Series

by Shaun Huston

[27.Jun.07] :. Alas, while leavened with small insights into the lives of professional chefs and benefiting from high production values, this series was, ultimately, not much more than a conventional workplace comedy, its premise employed as a set up for wacky hijinks, and, above all, as a pretext for sexual and romantic tension.

 

Kitchen Confidential

by Samantha Bornemann

[26.Sep.05] :. Presentation, on the plate or on television, goes a long way, and Confidential has the look of a winner.

 

I Want to Marry Ryan Banks

by Mary Colgan

[26.Jan.04] :. As Ryan Banks pokes fun at the transience of U.S. celebrity, it underlines the importance of conventional 'values'.