Friday, March 27 2009
Part 5: Toy Story 2 to Titus (November - December 1999)
On this final day of PopMatters' 1999 overview, awards season hype gives way to pure acting prowess and definitive directorial flair.
Friday, February 27 2009
An American Affair
Before An American Affair is over, you can be sure that Adam will learn a very familiar life lesson.
Thursday, October 9 2008
Life on Mars: Series Premiere
Harvey Keitel makes a great entrance in Life on Mars. You expect as much, of course, because he's Harvey Keitel. But it is truly great.
Monday, February 4 2008
3:10 to Yuma
As a genre piece, Mangold’s remake satisfies the requisite clichés (sweeping desert vistas, corseted women, ample gunplay), but not much else.
Monday, January 14 2008
The Ten
A high-speed collision between Krzysztof Kieślowski's Dekalog and Woody Allen’s Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex.
Wednesday, January 9 2008
Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Male
From the tender and eerie precision of Sam Riley's depiction of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis in Control to yet another superlative performance by Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood, PopMatters highlights the best male actors of 2007.
3:10 to Yuma
All the men in this movie think they're doing the right thing, no matter how unhinged their actions may look.
Tuesday, August 7 2007
The Ten
Despite the sight gags, recurring characters, amusing references, and genuine chuckles it elicits, The Ten is more exercise than tour de force.
Friday, April 14 2006
The Notorious Bettie Page (2006)
Mary Harron's smart new movie is less about Bettie Page than the many forces that made her 'notorious,' the moral hypocrisies and sexual repressions that shaped the '50s and persist today.
