Friday, January 14 2011
Gotta Be ‘In Treatment’
Loss is a necessary part of life, sure, but must it be a necessary part of TV?
Thursday, December 3 2009
Little Women: Brilliant Book, Flawed Film
A scene shows Ryder blissfully tying up the manuscript and putting a rose under the string. That's rather like what Armstrong and the screenwriters did to the film: tied it up neatly with a pretty flower.
Sunday, April 5 2009
In Treatment: Season Two Premiere
HBO's strangely beguiling series about therapy sessions reboots as Paul grapples with a new life, wondering how he's missed or misunderstood the rules.
Thursday, January 24 2008
Gone and Not Forgotten: The PopMatters DVD Wish List
A lot of good movies are still missing from DVD. Here is a list of 25 that PopMatters feels have been unceremoniously left to simply fade away.
Monday, May 21 2007
Jindabyne (2006)
Jindabyne uses Claire and Stewart's increasingly visible and vicious upset to get at broader social and political upsets.
Tuesday, December 19 2006
Wah-Wah (2005)
The genuinely cinematic moments in Wah-Wah are few and far between, and are generally courtesy of the skillful performances.
Friday, January 21 2005
Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)
What still works is the edgy distrust-into-respect that develops between the killer and the cop.
Friday, November 5 2004
p.s. (2004)
Simultaneously affectionate, startled, yearning, and anxious, Laura Linney and Topher Grace make awkwardness into art.
Friday, September 10 2004
Vanity Fair (2004)
Ah, to be young, bright, and scheming in 19th-century Britain!"
