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Virginia Madsen’s movie career has been haunted by a lack of good scripts

by Colin Covert [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)]

[27.Mar.09] :. She’s been a prominent film actress since the 1980s, but there’s still more of Chicago than Hollywood in Virginia Madsen. In a telephone interview, the “Haunting in...

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Film Review

The Haunting in Connecticut

by Cynthia Fuchs

[27.Mar.09] :. In the poorly paced and ineptly edited Haunting in Connecticut, Matt is surrounded by dark shadows, ooky male choruses, and reflections of tortured corpses in dirty glass.

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

Part 1: The Thin Red Line to Star Wars Episode I (January - May 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[23.Mar.09] :. The first part of PopMatters' look back at the films of 1999 is bookended by the long awaited return of two cinematic auteurs of wildly different styles, Terrence Malick and George Lucas.

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

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Which road will Oscar take? ‘Benjamin Button,’ ‘Slumdog’ travel on two distinct paths

by Duane Dudek [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT)]

[16.Feb.09] :. New Orleans is 8,870 miles from Mumbai, India, as the crow flies. The Academy Award nominees for best picture set in those cities - “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” and...

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Film Review

Two Lovers

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Feb.09] :. A wall of family photos, glimpsed briefly in an early scene of Two Lovers, lays out Leonard's too conventional dilemma.

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Column: The Screener

Two Lovers: All Your Choices Are Bad Ones

by Chris Barsanti

[12.Feb.09] :. What James Gray bravely does in Two Lovers is return the idea of pain, and the threat of bad decisions, to the American film romance.

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The New Classics - The 30 Best Films of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[16.Jan.09] :. Unlike previous years, where classics came crawling out of the celluloid woodwork with regular reckless abandon, 2008 was more calm… and considered. That's not to say that choosing 30 top titles was hard. The difficulty in placing them in some manner of rank order suggests the actual depth of quality involved.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Dec.08] :. It's an inelegant but provocative means to measure Benjamin and Daisy's ostensibly transcendent connection: as he grows young and she grows old, they share but a single moment when their bodies and visions and hopes can easily coincide.

Talk, Talk, Talk: December 2008

by Bill Gibron

[12.Sep.08] :. Just like the end of an inspiring speech that may or may not succeed in making its point, these final four weeks before 2009 tend to define or defeat the entire awards season purpose.

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.

Zodiac-The Director’s Cut

by Brian Holcomb

[8.Jan.08] :. Even though Zodiac attempts to achieve a sort of documentary-like reality, there is an underlying surrealism, a poetic and nightmarish vibe that hangs over the whole film.

Skinwalkers

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Aug.07] :. In Skinwalkers, there are two kinds of skinwalkers. Some see their bloodlust as a curse, and others, more colorfully, "embrace the power of the beast."

tHarrisons Flowers

by Boyd Williamson

[7.Aug.07] :. If there were an award given to actors for retaining their dignity in undignified movies, Andie MacDowell would surely win for her performance in Harrison’s Flowers.

Shooter (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Mar.07] :. While Swagger describes himself modestly, he's also one of those highly trained government instruments whose post-trauma mission in life is vengeance.

‘Zodiac’ filmmaker David Fincher recalls wave of panic

by Rene Rodriguez [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[3.Mar.07] :. The phrase “From the director of `Seven’” conjures up a certain expectation, especially when it’s plastered on the posters for “Zodiac,” a movie about the...

David Fincher talks ‘Zodiac’

by Terry Lawson [Detroit Free Press (MCT)]

[2.Mar.07] :. “So, which side are you on? ” asks director David Fincher, beginning the interview with a question. “Which side of what?” “The length of the movie. Are you on the `too...

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.

Some Kind of Wonderful (1987)

by Samantha Bornemann

[2.Oct.06] :. Ever watching, waiting, and wisecracking, Watts is the irresistible underdog, cursed with loving a boy too "stupid" to see the truth.

The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[30.Sep.05] :. In the wholly predictable and often cloying The Greatest Game Ever Played, Shia LeBeouf plays amateur golfer Francis Ouimet.

Ararat (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[29.Nov.02] :. As usual in Egoyan's films, tangled familial relationships inspire chaos and meanness as much as understanding and benevolence.

Harrison’s Flowers (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Mar.02] :. Goes at both war and romance from a decidedly oblique angle.

Collateral Damage (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Feb.02] :. As Schwarzenegger described the whole shebang to the guys on 'Fox NFL Sunday', 'There's some serious butt-kicking going on.'"

Lost Souls (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Winona Ryder’s kohl- and shadow-blackened eyes are the most stunning special effect in Lost Souls. Her eyes are always large and gorgeous, of course, which means that accentuating them...