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

Back to Basics - The 30 Best TV Shows of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[12.Jan.09] :. The Year in TV was a lot like the US economy: struggling until summer and then tanking under the hope of a 2009 comeback. Still, our staff found 30 solid reasons to be cheerful come entertainment investment time.

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 TV, Film, and DVD of 2007 Feature

The Best Big Screen Eye Candy of 2007

by Daynah Burnett

[4.Jan.08] :. When flipping through my mental catalog of the year's films, certain scenes stand out. This past year offered a veritable feast of visual goodies.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007

Film Review

28 Weeks Later (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.May.07] :. The moral universe is intractably skewed in 28 Weeks Later, a film that works hard to reflect the world around it.

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Zombie sequel rides the crest of a horror-movie wave

by Rene Rodriguez [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[10.May.07] :. Indulge me here: Imagine being under attack by flesh-eating zombies. Your cornered spouse is screaming out for help. Do you rush to his or her side, knowing it spells certain doom for both of you? Or...

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The PopMatters Summer 2007 Movie Preview Feature

Monkey Business (Part 1: May)

by Bill Gibron

[1.May.07] :. Talk about frontloading your approach. Each week in this first full month of patented popcorn movies finds another famous franchise icon making a major blockbuster bow. Only truly disastrous results from these guaranteed crowd-pleasers will keep the coffers from clogging with cash.

The PopMatters Summer 2007 Movie Preview

Net-Works: The Best TV of 2006

by PopMatters Staff

[10.Jan.07] :. You won't have to look far along your television dial to discover the Top TV picks from PopMatters staff. From 20 upward, each entry represents the boob tube at its best.

Lost: Season Three Premiere

by Marisa LaScala

[11.Oct.06] :. Squabbles over book clubs, burned muffins, and broken plumbing are not what one would expect from the marauding band of brutes who have captured and brutalized some of the island's most cuddly inhabitants.

Lost

by Daynah Burnett

[3.Oct.06] :. Sometimes -- when I'm buying the Lost-companion novel Bad Twin or navigating the perplexing websites of the Dharma Project's sponsor The Hanso Corporation -- I think if Lost were my boyfriend, we'd have to break up.

Lost / The Amazing Race

by Jonathan Beebe

[3.Oct.06] :. Of course, we know that Lost's producers are an international '911' call away, should anything go terribly wrong, but for the most part, the contestants are left to their own devices.

Lost

by Glenn McDonald

[14.Jun.05] :. This is a story about human beings who were, in some way, lost well before they boarded their flight.

Oz - The Complete Fourth Season

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.May.05] :. Arresting for any number of reasons -- graphic violence, extreme masculinity, harsh language -- Oz also brilliantly inventive with its percussive soundtrack.

Lost

by Marco Lanzagorta

[4.Oct.04] :. In Lost, the remnants of civilization loom ominously.

The Matrix Reloaded (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.May.03] :. Morpheus is a stanch warrior and provocative thinker, as well as a black man in a world where the machines' agents tend to be white men in suits.

Oz

by Michael Abernethy

[10.Feb.03] :. No other fiction show has offered such a frighteningly realistic look inside our nation's prisons or so openly debated their moral and social obligations.

Lost

by Jesse Hassenger

Lost survives because its mix of fantasy and mystery, character development and plot twists, predictability and sharp twists -- in short, its mix of cleverness and crap -- is like nothing else on TV.

Woman on Top (2000)

by America Billy

All of these elements combine to create a contemporary fairy tale where the purpose is not only to invoke a nostalgia for the warmth and simplicity of childhood or perhaps the soothing powers of food, but also to address, however whimsically, sex and gender politics.

Woman on Top (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Penelope Cruz is as radiant a rising star as you're likely to see in this lifetime, sensuous and dewy-new-seeming.

The Best Man (1999)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Someone I know organized an opening weekend group to go see The Best Man. As he reasons in the invitation he sent out to several friends, Hollywood pays attention to opening weekend box office receipts, and he'd like to ensure that this film's receipts make an impression on the powers that be. You don't see this kind of effort made for just any movie.