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Crossing Over

by Renee Scolaro Mora

[6.Mar.09] :. In its stories of immigration, Crossing Over raises questions: how far are we willing to bend the rules to get what we desire? What will we risk to uphold our own values?

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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

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

Celulloid Culpability - Top 10 Film Guilty Pleasures of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[13.Jan.09] :. Like comedy or music, one's choice in cinematic pleasure can be very personal - and very peculiar. Take this tantalizing list of shameful indulgences. You can argue over their artistic value, but their individuals rewards definitely speak to those who champion them.

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

The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview Feature

Talk, Talk, Talk: October 2008

by Bill Gibron

[10.Sep.08] :. What studio suit thought this was a good idea? With four months to schedule your high priced efforts, you instead unload almost 30 overpriced pictures on an unsuspecting movie audience.

The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview

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Indiana Jones: The Adventure Collection

by Chris Barsanti

[27.May.08] :. There should be room in our collective imagination for a hero who makes mistakes, lots of them, and still saves the day -- these are films that should be owned.

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‘Indiana Jones’ will open strong, but will it stay hot?

by Russ Britt [MarketWatch (MCT)]

[23.May.08] :. LOS ANGELES - It’s been nearly two decades since Indiana Jones graced the silver screen and while times have changed, the initial box-office draw of the aging adventurer is expected to be as...

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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.May.08] :. It is a little surprising to see the silliness that leads to Crystal Skull's gargantuan climax, a series of antics simultaneously hyper and enervated.

Indiana Jones paved the road for dumb box-office thrill rides

by Carrie Rickey [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[20.May.08] :. Largely by cracking jokes and his bullwhip, Indiana Jones snared American hearts in the 1980s. Ever since, the indefatigable finder of incomparable objects in improbable places has continued to...

Harrison Ford returns to the real ‘let’s-pretend’ job that propelled his career

by Michael Phillips [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[19.May.08] :. When Harrison Ford attended Wisconsin’s Ripon College, he drifted over to the theater department from the philosophy department and stuffed a pillow under his shirt to play Mr. Antrobus in...

Karen Allen is back where she belongs: in an Indiana Jones movie

by Roger Moore [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)]

[19.May.08] :. The eyes still have that twinkle, though they twinkle behind wrinkles these days. The freckled girl-next-door grin is still infectious, the voice and laugh as plucky as we remember them. Karen Allen...

After 20 years, Harrison Ford returns to his signature role: Indiana Jones

by Gene Seymour [Newsday (MCT)]

[19.May.08] :. With most of our action movie icons, there are easily identifiable trademarks: John Wayne’s pigeon-toed swagger and slow-rolling drawl; Humphrey Bogart’s facial twitches and muted...

The Return of the Popcorn Circus: August 2008

by Bill Gibron

[1.May.08] :. Talk about a crowded schedule. There are more offerings scheduled this month than in the previous two combined.

The Return of the Popcorn Circus: May 2008

by Bill Gibron

[28.Apr.08] :. In the first act of this four-part production, Tinsel Town decides to do some unbelievable front loading. Will there be room for independent offerings, or former HBO carnal comedy divas? Who knows? Without a doubt, it's an interesting way to start the season.

Digital Dynamite: The 30 Best DVDs of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[25.Jan.08] :. It was the year of the behemoth box set, the multi-disc triumph that tried to give long suffering fans everything their demanding little digital hearts ever desired. Here are PopMatters' 30 picks for the best DVDs of the year.

Firewall (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Feb.06] :. Is there any role that Mary Lynn Rajskub can't make strange? I mean, delightfully and eloquently strange?"

Witness: Special Collector’s Edition (1985)

by Nikki Tranter

[14.Sep.05] :. Bemused at times, Detective John Book is nonetheless captivated by the Amish community's simplicity, its decency, and its ability to thrive despite its antiquities.

Hollywood Homicide (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Oct.03] :. My intention was to make a picture that on one level was a genre movie, summer movie, kind of a cop movie, whatever that genre is, and at the same time, to serve different gods.

Hollywood Homicide (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Jun.03] :. Short version: Joe's hardheaded and eats cheeseburgers, K.C.'s into fluidity and bean sprouts.

K-19 (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Jul.02] :. For all its efforts to offer other views, 'K-19' is an all too average U.S. war movie.

What Lies Beneath (2000)

by Renee Scolaro Rathke

CAUTION: This review contains spoilers, although frankly, it doesn’t reveal much more information than the film’s trailer does. “Take Me Away!” The most...