Articles tagged "dominic monaghan"

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

Back to Basics - The 30 Best TV Shows of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[12.Jan.09] :. The Year in TV was a lot like the US economy: struggling until summer and then tanking under the hope of a 2009 comeback. Still, our staff found 30 solid reasons to be cheerful come entertainment investment time.

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

 

TV Review

Lost

by Daynah Burnett

[7.Feb.08] :. Sometime between Hurley's car chase and Naomi's resurrection, it occurred to me that I'm never going to get satisfactory answers to Lost's fast-accumulating questions.

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PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007 Feature

High Redefinition: The 30 Best TV Shows of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[18.Jan.08] :. In memoriam of a TV season cut down before its prime time, PopMatters staff celebrates the Top 30 TV Shows of 2007. Some are old favorites. Others have barely made their impression felt. But at a time when all broadcast fortunes are up in the air, they definitely deserve the recognition.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007

 

PopMatters Picks: The Best of TV on DVD Feature

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.

PopMatters Picks: The Best of TV on DVD

 

TV Review

Lost

by Daynah Burnett

[31.May.07] :. After Season Three's finale, Lost and I have made up now, and it looks like we're working towards a real future together. Finally.

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PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2006 Feature

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.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2006

 

Lost: Season Three Premiere

by Marisa LaScala

[11.Oct.06] :. Squabbles over book clubs, burned muffins, and broken plumbing are not what one would expect from the marauding band of brutes who have captured and brutalized some of the island's most cuddly inhabitants.

 

Lost

by Daynah Burnett

[3.Oct.06] :. Sometimes -- when I'm buying the Lost-companion novel Bad Twin or navigating the perplexing websites of the Dharma Project's sponsor The Hanso Corporation -- I think if Lost were my boyfriend, we'd have to break up.

 

Lost / The Amazing Race

by Jonathan Beebe

[3.Oct.06] :. Of course, we know that Lost's producers are an international '911' call away, should anything go terribly wrong, but for the most part, the contestants are left to their own devices.

 

Lost

by Glenn McDonald

[14.Jun.05] :. This is a story about human beings who were, in some way, lost well before they boarded their flight.

 

Lost

by Marco Lanzagorta

[4.Oct.04] :. In Lost, the remnants of civilization loom ominously.

 

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Dec.03] :. No in-betweeners in this reductive view of the world: characters and choices are good or evil.

 

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Dec.02] :. It's useful to remember that, offscreen, both good and bad tend to be tricksy.

 

Lost

by Jesse Hassenger

Lost survives because its mix of fantasy and mystery, character development and plot twists, predictability and sharp twists -- in short, its mix of cleverness and crap -- is like nothing else on TV.