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Kings: Series Premiere

by Marisa LaScala

[15.Mar.09] :. What's most striking about Kings is its ambition -- its wide-ranging creation of a world to surround its class-divided characters.

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Coraline

by Renee Scolaro Mora

[6.Feb.09] :. The other mother in Coraline is mother-love gone berserk, all-consuming and self-serving.

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‘Coraline’ is a Classic

by Bill Gibron

[4.Feb.09] :. The nostalgic effect of stop motion animation is potent. Indeed, the moment a member of an earlier generation sees the static, superlative work of such single frame artistry, visions of Ray...

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Will Shakespeare

by David Camak Pratt

[19.Jan.09] :. Much of Will Shakespeare’s story overlaps with that of Ray Charles or Johnny Cash, if we are to believe our biopics.

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Death Race (2008): Unrated DVD

by Bill Gibron

[20.Dec.08] :. Remakes are like those proverbial Tribbles in the classic Trek episode. Give them a creative inch - or in the case of Hollywood, a recognizable box office return - and they’ll overrun...

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Death Race

by Lesley Smith

[22.Aug.08] :. Anderson dilutes Roger Corman’s satire by locating Death Race among society’s transgressors, depicting their dysfunctions with gory relish, and confining the race safely behind the walls of an isolated prison.

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‘Race’ Racks Up Some Guilty Pleasures

by Bill Gibron

[22.Aug.08] :. Remakes are like those proverbial Tribbles in the classic Trek episode. Give them a creative inch - or in the case of Hollywood, a recognizable box office return - and they’ll overrun...

 

Acting legend Julie Andrews returns in Shrek the Third

by Barry Koltnow [The Orange County Register (MCT)]

[18.May.07] :. LOS ANGELES—PUBLICIST: “You’re not going to write that you watched the Kentucky Derby in Julie Andrews’ bedroom, are you?” JOURNALIST: “I wouldn’t do...

 

Shrek the Third (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.May.07] :. Nothing looks to be ongoing so much as Shrek, except maybe the other sequel machines huffing and puffing this summer.

 

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.

 

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.

 

We Are Marshall (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Dec.06] :. The film manages a complex range of feelings with a series of hackneyed characters, plot turns, and montages. Lots of montages.

 

Scoop (2006)

by Kevin Wong

[28.Jul.06] :. Allen once channeled Bergman in Interiors and Fellini in Stardust Memories, but in Scoop, he commits a more self-indulgent crime, paying tribute to his own works.

 

Scoop (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Jul.06] :. If Scoop has a theme, submerged beneath its poor plotting, clumsy editing, and reductive characterizations, deception might be it.

 

Deadwood: The Complete Second Season

by Sean O'Neal

[10.Jul.06] :. For those who have taken the time to appreciate its oily charms, the subtle shifts in dynamics between the show's unreliable heroes and villains, and its unparalleled ensemble of character actors, Deadwood is one of the most arresting and original series in TV history.

 

Deadwood - The Complete Second Season

by Sean O'Neal

[22.May.06] :. For those who have taken the time to appreciate its oily charms, the subtle shifts in dynamics between the show's unreliable heroes and villains, and its unparalleled ensemble of character actors, Deadwood is one of the most arresting and original series in TV history.

 

Deadwood

by Lesley Smith

[21.Mar.05] :. Deadwood is possibly the most coruscating indictment of American capitalism ever aired in primetime.

 

Deadwood

by Elena Razlogova

[12.Apr.04] :. Wily and self-possessed, Sol Star is an unusual combination of a Lower East Side peddler and Gary Cooper in High Noon.

 

Sexy Beast (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Granted, psycho villains per se are not news. But that's sort of the point with Don -- perversely, he's hyper-aware of his ordinariness, his conformity to expectations of the people around him who submit and look away when he's in the room, like you're told to do when a mad dog approaches.