Tuesday, March 30 2010
Bad, Bad Girls
Sexual stereotyping reached a fever pitch this month; call it March Madness.
Monday, August 25 2008
He’s Lost Control
The kids who grew up in the '90s had the haunted Kurt Cobain; my generation had the tormented Ian Curtis.
Wednesday, January 9 2008
Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Male
From the tender and eerie precision of Sam Riley's depiction of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis in Control to yet another superlative performance by Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood, PopMatters highlights the best male actors of 2007.
Friday, December 21 2007
Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures
Anton Cobijn's movie biopic has triggered the largest revival of interest in Joy Division in nearly a decade.
Monday, November 12 2007
Control
What could have easily ended up as a humorless exercise in hipster excess turns out warm and snappy.
Wednesday, November 7 2007
Control
Despite occasional strange and impossibly intimate reveries, the film lapses frequently into biopickish shorthand.
Pedro the Lion: Control (Reviews) [23.Apr.02]
