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PopMatters Picks: The Best of TV on DVD Feature

Part 5 - Beyond the Envelope

by PopMatters Staff

[12.Oct.07] :. The format forced the issue among cult and commercial products. And TV on DVD highlighted the cream of the creative, forward thinking crop.

PopMatters Picks: The Best of TV on DVD

 

Film DVD Review

Abandon (2002)

by Brian Holcomb

[26.Jul.07] :. This is one of the best horror films in some time; not sacrificing itself to irony or parody but committed to the dark corners of human nature and the complex labyrinths that exist in the mind.

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Film Feature

Future Shock: The Death of Serious Science Fiction

by Bill Gibron

[29.May.07] :. The serious Science Fiction film genre is dead or at least on cinematic life support. As the new millennial marches forward, and an omnipresent production paradigm that substitutes spectacle for smarts, futurist filmmaking is definitely gasping for breath.

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News

Alfonso Cuaron: ‘The present, projected into the future’

by Joshua Klein [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[26.Mar.07] :. Cuaron talks about Children of Men, his powerful film with explicit references to the political present.

PopWire

 

Film Review

Children of Men (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Jan.07] :. Even with so much attention paid to her body and to her child, Kee's story is secondary to Theo's, as his loss of hope must be undone and his past redressed.

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TV DVD Review

Undeclared: The Complete Series

by Jesse Hassenger

[18.Aug.05] :. As Judd Apatow points out, 22 minutes is a challenging timeframe for developing characters, making jokes, and advancing the plot.

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Cold Mountain: Collector’s Edition (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Jul.04] :. Anthony Minghella's image of the birds in snow articulates Cold Mountain's aesthetic and themes, its interest in collision and reverie, in nostalgia and resistance.

 

Cold Mountain (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Dec.03] :. The first scene in Cold Mountain is sensational and sickening, an apt introduction to what will be a Civil War saga.

 

Abandon (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Oct.02] :. Cynical and beautiful. No wonder the boys can't resist her.

 

Queer as Folk

by Michael Abernethy

Efforts to develop the characters in season one of 'Queer as Folk' always felt like someone had edited scenes from 'Melrose Place' into a Jeff Stryker porn flick.