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

A Gallery of Good Works: The Best Films of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[11.Jan.08] :. From Julian Schnabel's artsy The Diving Bell and the Butterfly to the legendary Coen Brothers splendid adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men, PopMatters counts down the 30 best films of 2007.

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

 

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The Wind That Shakes the Barley

by Josh Timmerman

[11.Sep.07] :. Ken Loach’s controversial Palm d’Or winner is a work of supreme ambivalence.

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British director gets around to making his own sci-fi adventure

by Rene Rodriguez [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[30.Jul.07] :. Soon after having made his second film, the exuberant drug-addiction drama “Trainspotting,” Danny Boyle got a lucrative offer from 20th Century Fox to direct the fourth installment in the...

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‘Sunshine’ star Michelle Yeoh hits the heights

by Ethan Sacks [New York Daily News (MCT)]

[26.Jul.07] :. The world’s most famous female action heroine is deathly afraid of heights. Yet there was Michelle Yeoh, lashed into a nose-diving stunt plane to simulate zero gravity, in preparation for her...

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Film Review

Sunshine (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Jul.07] :. The notion of loss pervades Sunshine, even as calculations of self are increasingly complex.

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Film Review

The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Mar.07] :. Ken Loach's Cannes Palme d'Or-winning film uses a familiar narrative form, it does so in a way that leaves the form itself in doubt, heroizing no one, offering no resolution.

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The PopMatters ‘Short Ends & Leader’ Spring Film Preview

by Bill Gibron

[2.Mar.07] :. In order to separate the worthy from the worthless, PopMatters' "Short Ends & Leader" editor is highlighting 10 new films he's looking forward to this spring.

 

Breakfast on Pluto (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Dec.05] :. As tends to happen in Neil Jordan's films about spirited outsiders, Kitten's sense of limbo doesn't limit him as much it inspires him to resist expectations.

 

Batman Begins (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition with Comic Book) (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[4.Nov.05] :. Nolan's Batman is perpetually knotted up, unable to forget his dead parents, seeking a vague solace in his hard body's capacity for violence.

 

Red Eye (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Aug.05] :. Tough, ingenious, and completely fun to watch, Lisa makes the narrative absurdities seem largely irrelevant.

 

Batman Begins (2005)

by Todd R. Ramlow

[16.Jun.05] :. Christian Bale brings a menace to Batman, making him radically distinct from alter ego Bruce Wayne.

 

Intermission (2003)

by Tim O'Neil

[18.Oct.04] :. Intermission repeatedly frustrates audience expectations.

 

28 Days Later (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Oct.03] :. In time for Halloween, Fox has released the DVD of 28 Days Later, a frankly brilliant and scary scary movie.

 

28 Days Later (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Jun.03] :. Restless, irksome, strange: there's not much downtime in Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later.