Thursday, January 24 2008
Gone and Not Forgotten: The PopMatters DVD Wish List
A lot of good movies are still missing from DVD. Here is a list of 25 that PopMatters feels have been unceremoniously left to simply fade away.
Friday, February 16 2007
Breach (2007)
Eric has his Hanssenesque moments, proud of being able to "read" his man, but the film makes their differences more pronounced than their similarities. While Eric adheres to a moral code familiar in spy movies, Hanssen remains slippery.
Thursday, April 14 2005
Short Cuts (1993)
Death, or that state 'beyond natural color', is Short Cuts' common denominator.
Monday, March 22 2004
Kingdom Hospital
What haunts Kingdom Hospital most is the recurrent intrusion of clumsy, forced humor.
Monday, December 1 2003
X2: X-Men United (2003)
At once all powerful and utterly powerless, this involuntary terrorist is the first mutant you meet in X2.
Thursday, October 16 2003
Runaway Jury (2003)
Besieged by John Grishamish plot twisties, the actors in Runaway Jury do their best to fashion an emotional coherence.
Thursday, May 1 2003
X2: X-Men United (2003)
At once all powerful and utterly powerless, this involuntary terrorist is the first mutant you meet in X2.
Thursday, April 4 2002
High Crimes (2002)
'High Crimes' is a movie starring Ashley Judd whom someone has determined is the ideal Flinty Woman in Danger.
Summer Catch (2001)
As I was watching the aseptically insipid 'Summer Catch', I confess, my mind wandered. And I got to thinking, has Freddie Prinze, Jr. ever made an unarguably good movie?"
