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Film DVD Review

Passengers

by Jesse Hassenger

[13.May.09] :. As much effort as apparently went into it, the film nonetheless feels like a pit stop for everyone involved.

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Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999 Feature

Part 5: Toy Story 2 to Titus (November - December 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[27.Mar.09] :. On this final day of PopMatters' 1999 overview, awards season hype gives way to pure acting prowess and definitive directorial flair.

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

 

The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview Feature

Talk, Talk, Talk: October 2008

by Bill Gibron

[10.Sep.08] :. What studio suit thought this was a good idea? With four months to schedule your high priced efforts, you instead unload almost 30 overpriced pictures on an unsuspecting movie audience.

The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview

 

Film DVD Review

The Grudge: Special Edition (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Feb.05] :. Precisely composed frames of urban and ancient architecture give way to Karen's face, deftly shadowed and shot from low angles, as Karen struggles to decipher the symbols that set her course.

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TV Review

Carnivàle

by Michael Abernethy

[14.Feb.05] :. His quest has made Ben the most tortured man on TV. He's been beaten, buried alive, drugged, paralyzed, and forced to commit murder.

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Film Review

The Grudge (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Oct.04] :. Karen's quintessential 'American' identity -- blond, do-gooding, intrepid -- makes her sense of dislocation especially acute.

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A Slipping-Down Life (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.May.04] :. You're left wondering just what Evie sees in Drum, except that abstract backwardsness that she's inscribed in herself.

 

21 Grams (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Dec.03] :. In 21 Grams, the fragmentation is pronounced, chaotic to the point of mathematical precision.

 

Identity (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Sep.03] :. As James Mangold neatly puts it, these characters are running along 'a kind of Möbius strip of hell.'"

 

Identity (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Apr.03] :. Amanda Peet, not incidentally, throws some fine, even sublime, attitude.

 

Wildflowers (1999)

by Sabadino Parker

Occasionally, a movie comes along that attempts to remember the '60s as a time like all others, with competing ideologies, and both good and bad effects.

 

Girl, Interrupted (1999)

by Cynthia Fuchs

What is it that makes girls in trouble so interesting? Think about all the novels, memoirs, biographies, songs, movies of the week, TV shows, and movies that have investigated, spectacularized, and...

 

Ghosts of Mars (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

In 'Ghosts of Mars', Desolation is a perfect candidate to ensure the human-humans' survival: not only is he the resilient and brilliant Ice Cube, but he is also the consummate delinquent champion.

 

But I’m a Cheerleader (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

The cultural systems that condone more subtle forms of homophobia are left unexamined. This allows viewers to forget the important fact that homophobia and strict either-or gendering practices do prevail in today's 'civilized' cultures, liberal and tolerant as they may seem to those who don't have to worry about such things.

 

But I’m a Cheerleader (2000)

by Stephen Tropiano

Though behaving like proper girls and boys has little effect on Megan and the other patients, they still pretend that they are actually heading down the path to heterosexuality.