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PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008 Feature

Off the Radar - The Top 30 DVDs of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[13.Jan.09] :. Oddly enough, while the major studios continue scratching their heads over how to sell yet another new format (Blu-ray) to disinterested consumers, several outside distributors made sure that this would be a digital year to remember.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008

 

TV Feature

Women and ‘The Wire’

by Sophie Jones

[25.Aug.08] :. Why the most intelligent show on TV, a compelling exploration of the circumstances and institutional pressures that make people who they are, gets an "F" in Gender Studies.

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TV DVD Review

The Wire: The Complete Fifth Season

by Chris Barsanti

[15.Aug.08] :. The dense mythology, painstakingly created over five novelistic seasons, has enough drama packed inside to be easily spun out for the next five, ten, 15 years.

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TV Review

The Wire

by Jesse Hicks

[27.Jan.08] :. In David Simon's indictment of American capitalism, numbers -- say, crime stats and school test scores -- no longer have an epistemic value, they don't refer to any external reality.

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PopMatters Picks: The Best of TV on DVD Feature

Part 4 - Feasts from the Fringe

by PopMatters Staff

[11.Oct.07] :. Cable created supply where there was little or no demand. Out of the myriad of subject specific programming, a few gemstones managed to shine.

PopMatters Picks: The Best of TV on DVD

 

Film DVD Review

The Sentinel (2006)

by Jake Meaney

[1.Sep.06] :. A woefully timid, allegedly paranoid, political thriller short on thrills, shorter on paranoia, and shortest on politics.

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The Sentinel (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[1.Sep.06] :. The Sentinel thus sets up a conflict between two exceptionally earnest masculine icons -- Kiefer Sutherland and Michael DOuglas -- all furrowed brows and low-talking intensity.

 

The Sentinel (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Apr.06] :. I suppose if you're going to cast the deliriously overexposed Eva Longoria -- and give her a weapon, to boot -- you might as well make fun of the fact that you've done so.

 

Homicide: Life on the Street: The Complete Season 5

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Oct.04] :. It frequently expanded cop-show boundaries, occasionally gave in to suits in search or ratings, and most often, surprised fans and detractors alike.

 

Homicide Life on the Street: The Complete Season 4

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Jul.04] :. Unlike most TV fare, especially cop shows, Homicide concerns itself with details and asides that don't always come together into thematic wholes.

 

Homicide: Life on the Street: The Complete Third Season

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Mar.04] :. Homicide's third season focuses increasingly on tensions among the detectives, as they endure increasingly personal devastations, over more linear storylines and more sensational murder mysteries.

 

Homicide: Life on the Street: The Complete Seasons 1 & 2

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Mar.04] :. Homicide lays out an utterly compelling and occasionally oblique anti-cop-show premise.

 

S.W.A.T. (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Jan.04] :. S.W.A.T. knows what it is, namely, an expensive, hyper-actionated, CD-selling, multi-raced and multi-buddied flick.

 

S.W.A.T. (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Aug.03] :. S.W.A.T. knows what it is, namely, an expensive, hyper-actionated, cd-selling, multi-raced and multi-buddied flick.

 

Disappearing Acts (2000): Wesley Snipes, Sanaa Lathan, Clark Johnson, CCH Pounder

by Cynthia Fuchs

This plot comes to revolve around the couple's troubles with money -- it becomes an emblem and manifestation of Zora and Franklin's mutual and separate fears.

 

Disappearing Acts (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

This plot comes to revolve around the couple's troubles with money, it becomes an emblem and manifestation of Zora and Franklin's mutual and separate fears.