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Edie ‘Carmela Soprano’ Falco returns to TV in new Showtime series

by Rick Bentley [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[5.Jun.09] :. LOS ANGELES — During the filming of the final season of “The Sopranos,” Edie Falco wasn’t sure she wanted to be part of another TV series. That landmark HBO show set a pretty...

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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

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 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.

PopMatters Picks: The Best of TV on DVD

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The Sopranos: Series Finale

by Marisa Carroll

[19.Jun.07] :. A priest once explained to Carmela, "God understands that we all live in the middle of tensions." David Chase understands that too.

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Even if you didn’t watch ‘The Sopranos,’ you knew about it

by Eric Mink [St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MCT)]

[14.Jun.07] :. Sunday night, in a stream of post-finale babble veering dangerously close to rant, my comparison of “The Sopranos” to the serialized fiction of Charles Dickens proved to be the last...

‘Sopranos’ doesn’t end - it just stops

by David Bianculli [New York Daily News (MCT)]

[11.Jun.07] :. NEW YORK - After all the hype and expectations about Sunday night’s final episode of HBO’s “The Sopranos,” the mob drama series didn’t end with a bang. It didn’t...

At the center of ‘The Sopranos’ was its genuine humanity

by Rick Kushman [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[7.Jun.07] :. There was a moment a few weeks back, when Tony Soprano was talking with his psychiatrist, complaining that bad things keep happening around him. “I’m a good guy,” he said....

How will ‘The Sopranos’ end?

by Hal Boedeker [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)]

[4.Jun.07] :. How will it end? Badly. For the characters, that is. The series finale of “The Sopranos” will be a much-analyzed event. All signs point to a grim conclusion on June 10. Death, decline...

The Sopranos Is the Most Influential Television Drama Ever

by Maureen Ryan [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[23.Apr.07] :. No one-hour drama series has had a bigger impact on how stories are told on the small screen, or more influence on what kind of fare we've been offered by an ever-growing array of television networks.

PopMatters - Television - Reviews - The Sopranos

by Joe Luscombe

[7.Apr.07] :. During the end of year round up on the British arts discussion programme The Late Review, the subject of The Sopranos came up. After viewing the clip, each critic in turn gave an...

The Quiet (2005)

by Jesse Hassenger

[13.Feb.07] :. If it sounds insensitive to complain that an incest-ridden thriller isn't proper fun, you probably haven't tried to sit through this movie.

The Great New Wonderful (2005)

by Jesse Hassenger

[8.Sep.06] :. This 9/11 film is subtle to a fault; this is a quality you may not expect in a film from Danny Leiner, master of the vehicular stoner comedy.

The Quiet (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[31.Aug.06] :. The Quiet makes the conventional observation that this "world" is instituted by adults, and also mirrored and prepared for in high school.

The Great New Wonderful (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Aug.06] :. Lack of understanding will be a sort of theme for Danny Leiner's film, uneven but full of rewarding subtleties.

The Sopranos

by Amanda Ann Klein

[16.Mar.06] :. The 'circle of life' refers to how, in The Sopranos, the dead continuously circle the living.

Freedomland (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Feb.06] :. The new Samuel L. Jackson and Julianne Moore thriller is full of hauntings, institutional and personal.

The Sopranos

by Oliver Wang

[12.Apr.04] :. As The Sopranos enters its fifth season, it's clear that things will not go well for New Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano.

Sunshine State (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Dec.02] :. If there's anyone you'd want to have talking you through his movie, it would be John Sayles.

The Sopranos

by Lesley Smith

[23.Sep.02] :. While reality hounds might say that this is exactly how banal contemporary mob life is, they might also remember that a stamped certificate of authenticity doesn't inoculate drama against tedium.

Sunshine State (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Jul.02] :. Its attention to intricate sociopolitical tensions, Sunshine State, recalls Sayles' previous work.

The Sopranos

by Marisa Carroll

Punctuated by whip-smart, often salty humor, The Sopranos is also permeated by violence, uncertainty, and dread. By Season Six, Tony Soprano's fear seems realized.

Judy Berlin (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

In the movies, suburbia is usually plastic and colorful, familiar and pockmarked by Pier Ones, Burger Kings, and Walmarts, as well as American Beauty roses.