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

OMG - The 20 Worst Films of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[15.Jan.09] :. There's bad, and then there's 2008 level bad. You know this list is looking down into a deep dark bottomless pit of cinematic despair when Mike Myers' shameful Love Guru didn't even make the Top 20!

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

Column: The Screener

Cut to the Whatever

by Chris Barsanti

[21.Nov.08] :. Marc Forster's Quantum of Solace slices away nearly every element of the old Bond, and leaves nothing in its place.

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Quantum of Solace

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Nov.08] :. Bond (Daniel Craig) seems done in by the notion that M is indeed his maternal superior, and so he must please her, or at least pretend that he's playing by rules that he and she and all the rest of us know he disrespects from jump.

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Short Ends and Leader

Bonding

by Bill Gibron

[13.Nov.08] :. He’s that old friend we hardly recognize anymore, that middle aged idol that’s, apparently, going through a bit of a creative and cultural crisis. Granted, the secret agent is...

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The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview Feature

Talk, Talk, Talk: November 2008

by Bill Gibron

[11.Sep.08] :. Like the sainted sigh of relief that comes after another shriek-filled All Hallow's Eve, November usually means the start of the 'nominate me' process for the proposed prestige pictures of 2008.

The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview

Casino Royale (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Nov.06] :. The new Bond understands loss, but focuses on revenge instead of grief. He's a hard body in a hard new world.

Darkness: Unrated Version (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Apr.05] :. Ooky ambiguity is one thing. Incoherence is another.

Shadows in the Sun (2005)

by Nikki Tranter

[24.Apr.05] :. Claire Forlani goes so far as to call Shadows in the Sun her Il Postino. Oy.

Man on Fire (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Sep.04] :. Tony Scott enthuses, 'I had such a brilliant smorgasbord of really odd, strange personalities and different looks.'"

Man on Fire (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Apr.04] :. Man on Fire means to distress. Punctuated by mobile subtitles and assaultive editing, the movie underlines the daily threat of living in places where kidnapping is a sort of business, organized and ongoing.

CQ (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[31.May.02] :. The subject of CQ is Paul, artist, coffee-drinker, American in Paris.

Hannibal (2001)

by Todd R. Ramlow

As his immense popularity suggests, there is something about Lecter that appeals to 'us', there appears to be some level on which 'we' all wish we could be a little more like him, which is precisely what the filmmakers are banking on. And this is, in the end, the scariest thing about 'Hannibal' -- its perverse worship of the cannibalistic Doctor.