Articles tagged "david cross"

The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview Feature

Summer of Same: June 2009

by Bill Gibron

[28.Apr.09] :. This month's "original" fare offers a take on a Sid and Marty Krofft classic, more battling seizure robots, and the retaking of '70s subway thriller. Everything old is new again.

The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview

Film DVD Review

The Best Of Dr. Katz

by Marc Calderaro

[15.Jan.09] :. There aren’t many DVDs that can offer such a variety of established comics doing what they do best.

Recent DVD reviews

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

Column: Pop Goes Philosophy

I’m Not There, and Neither Are You

by George Reisch, Peter Vernezze and Paul Lulewicz

[9.Sep.08] :. The Bob Dylan film, I’m Not There, shows that the main puzzle behind pop music’s most enigmatic personality resides right here, within us all.

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Film Review

Kung Fu Panda

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.Jun.08] :. Big and bouncy, Kung Fu Panda is another powerhouse Family Entertainment that means to pummel its young viewers into adulation.

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Short Ends and Leader

‘Panda’ Stays True to Its Kung Fu Confines

by Bill Gibron

[5.Jun.08] :. It’s been interesting to watch the youth-ification of martial arts. Sure, kids have always been the major market when it comes to karate lessons, video games, and other media oriented kung...

Short Ends and Leader

The Return of the Popcorn Circus: June 2008

by Bill Gibron

[29.Apr.08] :. If May almost tent-poled itself out of existence, June will be even worse. After all, are audiences really ready for 13 major release in less than two months -- with more to come?

The Grand

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Mar.08] :. Werner Herzog plays The German. In another movie, this might be all you need to know.

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.

Super Duper Bad: The Worst Films of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[11.Jan.08] :. From Good Luck Chuck to Julie Taymor's ill-advised Beatlesque '60s tribute Across the Universe, PopMatters presents the dreck of 2007.

Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Female

by PopMatters Staff

[9.Jan.08] :. From the most sweetly nuanced performance of Jennifer Jason Leigh's career to Cate Blanchett's revelatory portrayal of Bob Dylan in I'm Not There, the women of 2007 were stellar.

Jason Lee yells ‘Al-vinnnnn!’

by Barry Koltnow [The Orange County Register (MCT)]

[17.Dec.07] :. BURBANK, Calif. - It’s the last day of shooting on the “My Name is Earl” set in the San Fernando Valley. The Writers Guild of America strike has taken its toll, and the hit NBC...

Alvin and the Chipmunks

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Dec.07] :. Without moral or emotional guidance, overworked and overpraised, the kids become preening, self-involved monsters.

Director Todd Haynes rediscovers Bob Dylan

by Rene Rodriguez [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[26.Nov.07] :. NEW YORK—It was in the year 2000 that filmmaker Todd Haynes rediscovered Bob Dylan all over again. “I had always admired Dylan—I was a fan in high school—but then I kind of...

Part 5 - Beyond the Envelope

by PopMatters Staff

[12.Oct.07] :. The format forced the issue among cult and commercial products. And TV on DVD highlighted the cream of the creative, forward thinking crop.

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.

Net-Works: The Best TV of 2006

by PopMatters Staff

[10.Jan.07] :. You won't have to look far along your television dial to discover the Top TV picks from PopMatters staff. From 20 upward, each entry represents the boob tube at its best.

School for Scoundrels (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[29.Sep.06] :. Amanda is demoted from object of desire to prop, so wan and undirected that she'll fall for whoever happens to be winning the boys' contest at any given moment.

Arrested Development

by Amanda Ann Klein

[21.Feb.06] :. Arrested Development went down uncompromised, with guns a-blazing and showing no remorse over its own potential demise.

Arrested Development: Season Two

by Stephen Kelly

[15.Nov.05] :. Twenty-two minutes of a single episode of Arrested Development is still funnier than an entire night of Must-See TV.

Arrested Development

by Jesse Hassenger

[2.May.05] :. Arrested Development is too dense, too smart, too strange. These are all ways of saying that it's too good.

Arrested Development: Season One

by John G. Nettles

[24.Nov.04] :. Arrested Development is Bad Behavior writ large, and it is the most consistently funny half-hour to grace the Idiot Box in a long time.

David Cross: It’s Not Funny

by Zeth Lundy

[24.May.04] :. There’s stand-up comedy, and then there’s David Cross. He is the James Ellroy of comedians, the alternative to the throng of manufactured, carbon copy John Grishams. Ever since I heard...

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Mar.04] :. At once abstract and heartfelt, sincere and weirdly charming, the film unhinges conventions of linear narrative along with romantic comedy.

Arrested Development

by Stephen Kelly

[10.Nov.03] :. That Arrested Development mines its laughs by taking potshots at the filthy rich makes it so much more delicious.

David Cross: Shut Up You Fucking Baby!

by Gary Glauber

[15.Jan.03] :. David Cross is an engaging intelligent comedic force that aims for the jugular at a time when others don’t. As a society, we have a younger generation well versed in the safe comforts of...

Ghost World (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

'Ghost World' is smart, sensitive, and insightful about the lunacy that constitutes adolescence, and never forgets how real and how complicated kids' feelings are.