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Monday, June 8 2009

The Closer: Season Five Premiere

As The Closer evolves both formally and thematically, Brenda and her team are forced to reflect on their own assumptions and actions.


Sunday, March 22 2009

Q&A with Paul Rudd and John Hamburg of ‘I Love You, Man’


I Love You, Man

I Love You, Man is a buddy flick worked out as a chick flick, complete with makeovers, bonding montages, a break-up and make-up.


Friday, January 30 2009

New in Town

New in Town subjects Lucy (Renée Zellweger) to a series of life-changing revelations, most stemming from a reductive big city/small town dichotomy.


Monday, January 26 2009

The Closer: Season Four Return

The fourth season return of The Closer finds fresh ways to mine the tensions between work and private life endured by LAPD Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson (Kyra Sedgwick).


Friday, January 16 2009

The New Classics - The 30 Best Films of 2008

Unlike previous years, where classics came crawling out of the celluloid woodwork with regular reckless abandon, 2008 was more calm… and considered. That's not to say that choosing 30 top titles was hard. The difficulty in placing them in some manner of rank order suggests the actual depth of quality involved.


Wednesday, January 14 2009

Iconic - The Top 20 Male Performances of 2008

Like the gladiators of old, 2008 resembles a battle of formidable acting gods, especially when looking over the 20 choices presented below. Indeed, if anything, choosing a winner requires more of a leap of faith than any amount of critical skill - they all were that good.


Sunday, December 21 2008

Burn After Reading (2008)


Thursday, September 18 2008

Being John Malkovich brings many movie roles


Burn After Reading (Reviews) [12.Sep.08]
Talk, Talk, Talk: September 2008 (Features) [9.Sep.08]
The Closer (Reviews) [21.Jul.08]
Juno (Reviews) [14.Apr.08]
‘Juno’ grows and grows (PopWire) [17.Jan.08]
Juno (Reviews) [5.Dec.07]
The Closer (Reviews) [18.Jun.07]
oFirst Snow (2006) (Reviews) [3.Apr.07]
Net-Works: The Best TV of 2006 (Features) [10.Jan.07]
Thank You for Smoking (2005) (Reviews) [14.Dec.06]
Thank You for Smoking (2005) (Reviews) [17.Mar.06]
The Closer (Reviews) [13.Jul.05]
Off the Map (2003) (Reviews) [18.Mar.05]
Spider-Man 2 (2004) (Reviews) [13.Dec.04]
The Ladykillers (2004) (Reviews) [8.Sep.04]
Hidalgo (2004) (Reviews) [9.Aug.04]
Spider-Man 2 (2004) (Reviews) [2.Jul.04]
The Ladykillers (2004) (Reviews) [26.Mar.04]
Hidalgo (2004) (Reviews) [4.Mar.04]
Spider-Man (2002) (Reviews) [2.May.02]
Autumn in New York (2000) (Reviews) [1.Jan.95]
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  3. Slipped Discs 2011 - Part 1: From 13Ghosts to Friendly Fires (Features)
  4. The Best Games of 2011 (Features)
  5. Not-So-Central Casting: Kevin Smith and the Birth of the Reality Podcast (Features)
  6. The 10 Greatest Movie Spies Ever (Short Ends and Leader)
  7. Slipped Discs 2011 - Part 2: From the Go! Team to the Phoenix Foundation (Features)
  8. Slipped Discs 2011 - Part 3: From Real Estate to Youth Lagoon (Features)
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  10. The Top 15 Madonna Singles of All Time (Sound Affects)
  11. Get Off of My Cloud!: 'Collecting' Music in the Digital Age (Features)
  12. Leonard Cohen: Old Ideas (Reviews)
  13. Google and the Production of Curiosity (Marginal Utility)
  14. Carole E. Barrowman’s Authorial Journey to Hollow Earth (Features)
  15. Tower Songs: Townes Van Zandt (Columns)
  16. “Don’t Let Me Fall”: Hip-Hop in the Age of Austerity (Features)
  17. Black Bananas: Rad Times Xpress IV (Reviews)
  18. The Gay Ole Countryside (Columns)
  19. Paul McCartney: Kisses on the Bottom (Reviews)
  20. Of Montreal: Paralytic Stalks (Reviews)
  21. Counterbalance No. 67: John Coltrane’s 'A Love Supreme' (Sound Affects)
  22. The 10 Best John Coltrane Solos (Sound Affects)
  23. A Look to the Past, An Insight Into the Present: The Use of Gender in 'Mad Men' (Features)
  24. A Tale of How Great Journalism Became Revisionist History: Grambling State U Football (Columns)
  25. Chairlift: Something (Reviews)
  26. The Asteroids Galaxy Tour - "Heart Attack" (Cosmic Kids Remix) (PopMatters Premiere) (Mixed Media)
  27. Mark Lanegan Band: Blues Funeral (Reviews)
  28. The Barbaric (and Poetic) Yawp of Shelby Lynne (Notes from the Road)
  29. After Cease to Exist: The Far-from-Final Report of Throbbing Gristle (Features)
  30. Nick Cave’s The Death of Bunny Munro: A Rock Star’s Midlife Crisis or Valid Literature? (Features)
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