Thursday, August 25 2011
West Coast Sound: Is Disney Victim to the “Decision Illusion”?
Is Disney's decision to let go of its subsidiary Marvel's entire West Coast marketing team a sound one? The question is certainly nowhere near as interesting as what this decision signals about the entertainment industry as a whole.
Friday, August 19 2011
TV Highpoints and Lowpoints of 2010-2011… Number 2
The 2010-2011 TV season saw an unprecedented number of major film directors work in TV, while Charlie Sheen's meltdown was an embarrassment both to him and to those who fixated on his demise.
Monday, March 21 2011
When Did Trying to Be Good Start Feeling So Bad?
Now don’t get me wrong—of course I believe in saving the planet (at least until scientists determine if there are other inhabitable planets with better mobile phone service), but there's gotta be a limit.
Monday, September 27 2010
Masters of the Universe: Oliver Stone’s ‘Wall Street’
In his desire to trump his upper crust "superiors", Gekko's personal ethic could be read as a perverted, ultimately hypocritical form of populist revolt.
Friday, January 25 2008
Digital Dynamite: The 30 Best DVDs of 2007
It was the year of the behemoth box set, the multi-disc triumph that tried to give long suffering fans everything their demanding little digital hearts ever desired. Here are PopMatters' 30 picks for the best DVDs of the year.
Wednesday, December 19 2007
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmakers Apocalypse
The openness and honesty with which Eleanor Coppola portrays her husband is by far the greatest asset of Hearts of Darkness.
Wednesday, February 2 2005
Pauly Shore is Dead (2003)
Decked out in his vintage gear, Rico Suave has been reduced to selling oranges with his young son on the side of a California highway.
Thursday, February 5 2004
The Big Bounce (2004)
There is a certain sense of achievement in a movie that actually casts the famously laidback Wilson as a surfer.
Thursday, October 23 2003
Scary Movie 3 (2003)
Just when you thought the Scary Movie franchise had run out of ideas, here it comes again -- looking like it's run out of ideas.
