Articles tagged "donnie wahlberg"

Sound Affects

One Hit Wonder: New Kids on the Block Edition

by Tommy Marx

[11.Sep.09] :. Almost nine years after racking up nine top ten hits, two members of New Kids on the Block had top ten hits of their own as solo acts.

Sound Affects

 

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

Part 3: The Sixth Sense to Fight Club (August - October 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[25.Mar.09] :. Films that have left a lasting impression on their creators (M. Night Shyamalan, Sam Mendes, David Fincher) make up the majority of Part Three of our Films of 1999 overview.

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

 

Film DVD Review

Righteous Kill

by Jake Meaney

[5.Feb.09] :. This movie boasts a tired and generic script and achieves a weird sort of harmonic convergence of forgetablilty.

Recent DVD reviews

 

Film Review

‘Righteous Kill’: Attacked on All Sides

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Sep.08] :. Righteous Kill uses Karen (Carla Gugino) both to critique the male cops' sense of self-righteousness and be the victim.

Recent Film reviews

 

Short Ends and Leader

‘Kill’ is Substandard Suspense

by Bill Gibron

[12.Sep.08] :. Sometimes, an excess of talent can lead to very little in evidence. Put another way, you can overload a film with artistic aspirations, failing to see that several pluses can still create a great big...

Short Ends and Leader

 

The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview Feature

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.

The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview

 

The PopMatters ‘Short Ends & Leader’ Spring Film Preview

by Bill Gibron

[2.Mar.07] :. In order to separate the worthy from the worthless, PopMatters' "Short Ends & Leader" editor is highlighting 10 new films he's looking forward to this spring.

 

Runaway

by Samantha Bornemann

[25.Sep.06] :. Runaway splits the difference between basic family drama and the serial thriller.

 

The Path to 9/11

by Mike Ward

[14.Sep.06] :. The motives and actions of the heroes transcend reproach; the bad guys are so inscrutably evil, they come across as the beady-eyed mole people in B-grade science fiction movies.

 

Annapolis (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Jul.06] :. Toward the end of 'achieving a balance' in the film, Justin Lin says, 'It was just basically a massage all the way through, from the writing to the production to the editing.'

 

Annapolis (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Jun.06] :. Toward the end of 'achieving a balance' in the film, Justin Lin says, 'It was just basically a massage all the way through, from the writing to the production to the editing.'"

 

Annapolis (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[27.Jan.06] :. Annapolis is straight-up male melodrama.

 

Saw II (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[1.Nov.05] :. 'Overkill' doesn't begin to describe it.

 

Dreamcatcher (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Mar.03] :. One thing you can say about 'Dreamcatcher': you can't really say one thing about it.

 

Boomtown

by Lesley Smith

[15.Oct.02] :. By playing safe, they might just as easily be playing dead.

 

Diamond Men (2001)

by David Sanjek

As much as anything, what makes 'Diamond Men' well worth seeking out is Robert Forster's commanding performance as Eddie.