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

OMG - The 20 Worst Films of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[15.Jan.09] :. There's bad, and then there's 2008 level bad. You know this list is looking down into a deep dark bottomless pit of cinematic despair when Mike Myers' shameful Love Guru didn't even make the Top 20!

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

 

Film Review

Nothing Like the Holidays

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Dec.08] :. Nothing Like the Holidays is like a lot of other holiday movies.

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TV DVD Review

Will & Grace: The Complete Series Collection

by Lara Killian

[8.Dec.08] :. Grace may have started out in high-waisted, pleated pants, and Will may have sported a mullet, but over the years this pair really demonstrated how great TV comedy can be.

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TV Review

The Starter Wife: Season Premiere

by Michael Abernethy

[10.Oct.08] :. We should feel better, Starter Wife implies, about our own small lives by knowing the privileged lead lives far more painful and scandalous than even TMZ could report.

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Film Review

The Women

by Todd R. Ramlow

[12.Sep.08] :. Despite its title, The Women is not an update of George Cukor's diva smackdown of the same name.

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The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview Feature

Talk, Talk, Talk: November 2008

by Bill Gibron

[11.Sep.08] :. Like the sainted sigh of relief that comes after another shriek-filled All Hallow's Eve, November usually means the start of the 'nominate me' process for the proposed prestige pictures of 2008.

The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview

 

Talk, Talk, Talk: September 2008

by Bill Gibron

[9.Sep.08] :. From wars both past and present to a number of nail-biting thrillers, September is sizing up as a potentially profitable one.

 

Lucky You (2006)

by Brett Parker

[9.May.07] :. A good movie about poker, but only good enough to appeal to those who enjoy watching card games on TV.

 

Lucky You (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[4.May.07] :. The cuts are obvious, the rhythms sluggish, and the dialogue redundant, as if the movie's afraid you've missed it the first time.

 

Monkey Business (Part 1: May)

by Bill Gibron

[1.May.07] :. Talk about frontloading your approach. Each week in this first full month of patented popcorn movies finds another famous franchise icon making a major blockbuster bow. Only truly disastrous results from these guaranteed crowd-pleasers will keep the coffers from clogging with cash.

 

The Wedding Date (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[4.Feb.05] :. More unnerving, he treats her to a front-and-center look at his penis, fresh out of the shower.

 

Along Came Polly (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Jan.04] :. Though plainly Ben Stiller's vehicle, Along Came Polly features an endearing, oddly delicate performance by Jennifer Aniston.

 

Hollywood Ending (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.May.02] :. The reinvention of Hollywood Ending is not the film, but the 66-year-old Allen as self-promoter.

 

The Mothman Prophecies (2002)

by Todd R. Ramlow

[24.Jan.02] :. As John (Richard Gere) begins to question his own journalistic rigor and even his sanity, a number of inconsistencies in the stories of the mothman crop up.

 

Will & Grace

by Todd R. Ramlow

Will & Grace was an eight-year advertisement for a 'commercialized gay identity' that did nothing to challenge current constitutions of power.

 

Will & Grace

by Rahul Gairola

While 'Will & Grace' is one of the funniest sitcoms on television today, the source of its comedy is occasionally troubling.