Articles tagged "bug"

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007 Feature

Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Female

by PopMatters Staff

[9.Jan.08] :. From the most sweetly nuanced performance of Jennifer Jason Leigh's career to Cate Blanchett's revelatory portrayal of Bob Dylan in I'm Not There, the women of 2007 were stellar.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007

 

Film DVD Review

Bug

by Jake Meaney

[25.Oct.07] :. Bug does what it sets out to do, which is to burrow under your skin and fester there, goading you to dig it out with something sharp.

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News

William Friedkin: A master storyteller returns with Bug

by Colin Covert [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)]

[29.May.07] :. “What a director’s doing at all times in a film is creating an atmosphere where the actors feel free not only to perform,” William Friedkin explained, “but to expose...

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Film Review

Bug (2006) (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[25.May.07] :. What goes on in Aggie's head is the point of departure for Bug, which is not, as early trailers suggested, anything like a conventional horror film.

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The PopMatters Summer 2007 Movie Preview Feature

Monkey Business (Part 1: May)

by Bill Gibron

[1.May.07] :. Talk about frontloading your approach. Each week in this first full month of patented popcorn movies finds another famous franchise icon making a major blockbuster bow. Only truly disastrous results from these guaranteed crowd-pleasers will keep the coffers from clogging with cash.

The PopMatters Summer 2007 Movie Preview

 

Music Review

Dinosaur Jr.: Bug

by Lance Teegarden

[8.Apr.05] :. How something so dissonant and detached can still remain so ebulliently catchy reveals itself to be Bug's greatest strength.

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Bug (1975)

by Bill Gibron

[5.Oct.04] :. When the insects kill his wife, James follows the fate of most B-movie scientists and goes bonkers.