Articles tagged "dave foley"

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

Part 1: The Thin Red Line to Star Wars Episode I (January - May 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[23.Mar.09] :. The first part of PopMatters' look back at the films of 1999 is bookended by the long awaited return of two cinematic auteurs of wildly different styles, Terrence Malick and George Lucas.

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

 

Short Ends and Leader

Work Pig: Bringing Home the Bacon

by Sean Murphy

[16.Mar.09] :. We’ve been moved out of the pigsties, perhaps, but maybe the joke is on us. Possibly, people will look back at our moment in time and ask how we outsmarted ourselves into being even busier every day.

Short Ends and Leader

 

TV DVD Review

NewsRadio: The Complete Series

by Jesse Hassenger

[7.Dec.08] :. True to its five-year run, this classic for the comedy archives remains underhyped.

Recent DVD reviews

 

The PopMatters Summer 2008 Movie Preview Feature

The Return of the Popcorn Circus: May 2008

by Bill Gibron

[28.Apr.08] :. In the first act of this four-part production, Tinsel Town decides to do some unbelievable front loading. Will there be room for independent offerings, or former HBO carnal comedy divas? Who knows? Without a doubt, it's an interesting way to start the season.

The PopMatters Summer 2008 Movie Preview

 

PopMatters Picks: The Best of TV on DVD Feature

Part 3 - The New Networks

by PopMatters Staff

[10.Oct.07] :. It would never work... no one challenged the reigning broadcast junta and survived. No surprise then that the upstarts snuck in and changed the face of TV forever.

PopMatters Picks: The Best of TV on DVD

 

TV Review

Thank God Youre Here

by Erik Hinton

[16.Apr.07] :. Thank God You're Here virtually resurrects US televised improvisational comedy, drawing from its improvisational predecessors while conjuring original elements as well.

Recent TV reviews

 

NewsRadio - The Complete Fifth Season

by Marisa LaScala

[21.Mar.07] :. There must be some kind of NewsRadio curse that keeps its actors from ever turning in a comedic performance better than the ones on this show.

 

Kids in the Hall - Complete Season 5

by Marisa LaScala

[21.Dec.06] :. The general, surreal nature of most Kids in the Hall work keeps the show feeling fresh and edgy more than a decade after the episodes originally aired.

 

The Kids in the Hall: Complete Season 4

by Chadwick Jenkins

[29.May.06] :. If we share Freud's liberationist stance on the power of humor, then no sketch comedy series is more pure and direct in its dissident hilarity than The Kids in the Hall.

 

The Kids in the Hall: Season Three

by Scott Carlson

[1.Dec.05] :. Once you've seen a few of those uncensored sketches, it's clear why Kids in the Hall was never so pleasing to mainstream viewers as SNL.

 

The Kids in the Hall: The Complete Season 2, 1990-1991

by Tim O'Neil

[2.Feb.05] :. The Kids' steadfastly humanizing instincts go a long way towards rendering their comedy adorably toothless.

 

The Kids in the Hall: Season One (1989-1990) (2004): CAST - PopMatters Film Review

by Jesse Hassenger

[26.Apr.04] :. The Kids in the Hall are notable for some of the most fascinatingly experimental misses in comedy history.

 

On the Line (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

In On the Line, Kev (Lance Bass) is bland as can be, an unfortunate condition for a romantic lead.