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Pineapple Express

by Aaron Marsh

[28.Jan.09] :. This stoner film offers you a howling good time without the help of any magical herb whatsoever.

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

The New Classics - The 30 Best Films of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[16.Jan.09] :. 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.

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

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

Iconic - The Top 20 Male Performances of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[14.Jan.09] :. 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.

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

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‘Milk’ co-star James Franco is in love with ... acting

by Carla Meyer [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[11.Dec.08] :. SAN FRANCISCO – James Franco tries to live by advice he received from the sage one, Seth Rogen. “He has a very simple philosophy,” Franco said of his “Pineapple...

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Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs Feature

Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs: Part 3

by PopMatters Staff

[16.Oct.08] :. Day Three - The final ten, a cross-culture collection teeming with big ideas, larger than life visions, and perhaps the greatest documentary on rugby you've probably never heard of.

Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs

Danny O.D.: Too Much McBride?

by Bill Gibron

[12.Aug.08] :. That’s it. I’ve had it. I am officially at my character actor capacity. Nothing personal on the man in question, but after a summer where it seems like he shows up in every movie made, I...

Pineapple Express

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.Aug.08] :. Pineapple Express is mostly what you expect: bonding mechanics that are unsurprising and feebly unrebellious.

‘Pineapple Express’ is Some Bad Ass Weed

by Bill Gibron

[5.Aug.08] :. For some reason, the stoner fails to get the same cinematic respect as other substance abusing characters. The alcoholic and the heroin addict are usually wrapped in semi-seriousness, while the pot...

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 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.

Iraq War-themed films can’t find an audience

by Soren Andersen [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[2.Jan.08] :. What if they made a war movie and nobody came to see it? No biggie. Individual films fail all the time for all kinds of reasons. Filmmaking is a crapshoot. Always has been. Always will be. The...

A new script for Hollywood war movies

by Carrie Rickey [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[11.Oct.07] :. Anti-war demonstrators storm the Pentagon in the movie “Across the Universe.” A career soldier protests the Iraq conflict in “In the Valley of Elah.” The tactics of an elite...

Part 3 - The New Networks

by PopMatters Staff

[10.Oct.07] :. It would never work... no one challenged the reigning broadcast junta and survived. No surprise then that the upstarts snuck in and changed the face of TV forever.

Hollywood goes to war: Mainstream movies focus on Iraq, terrorism

by Cary Darling [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[1.Oct.07] :. Writer Matthew Michael Carnahan makes a living pounding out movie scripts, where flights of fantasy and retreats from reality are the daily stock in trade. But a couple of autumns back, while...

Tight-lipped Tommy Lee Jones on ‘In the Valley of Elah’

by Howard Gensler [Philadelphia Daily News (MCT)]

[21.Sep.07] :. TORONTO—Oscar-winning actor Tommy Lee Jones, likely to be nominated again for one or both of his fall movies, “In the Valley of Elah” (opening Friday) and “No Country for Old...

In the Valley of Elah

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Sep.07] :. Paul Haggis' film posits Hank as an old-school man of honor, both punished and revered for his traditional "values."

Almighty Spidey spins out records

by Joe Gould and David Hinckley [New York Daily News (MCT)]

[7.May.07] :. Spider-Man spent the weekend spinning a worldwide web of pure gold. “Spider-Man 3,” bringing back Tobey Maguire as the red-suited comic hero Peter Parker and Kirsten Dunst as his...

Spider-Man 3 (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[4.May.07] :. The point of Spider-Man 3, underscored by all the posters, trailers, and buzz, is black Spidey.

A Guide to All Things Spider-Man

by Aaron Sagers, Ethan Alter, Kelly Federico [The Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.) (MCT)]

[2.May.07] :. Before you see Spider-Man 3, there's a few things you should know about the spider's lair. So go ahead, get tangled up in this extensive guide to Spider-Man's wonderful world-wide web.

Spider-Man returns for a bigger-than-ever third film

by Terry Lawson [Detroit Free Press (MCT)]

[1.May.07] :. The problem with the present? All anyone wants to talk about is the future. At least that’s the case with director Sam Raimi and the cast of Spider-Man 3, which opens nationwide...

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.

Spider-Man 2.1 - Unrated, Extended Cut (2004)

by Bill Gibron

[27.Apr.07] :. While Spider-Man 2.1 may add a few more dollars to the company coffers, it's definitely not doing the Spider Man series – or the digital domain – any real favors.

The Dead Girl (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Mar.07] :. An anthology of five stories organized around the titular corpse, the movie is a bleak but oddly robust homage to women's survival and defeat in the face of violence, oppression, and non-options.

Flyboys (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Sep.06] :. The flyboys all have "issues" to resolve through their service. And so the war becomes the occasion for each to engage in a personal growth experience.

Annapolis (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Jul.06] :. Toward the end of 'achieving a balance' in the film, Justin Lin says, 'It was just basically a massage all the way through, from the writing to the production to the editing.'

Annapolis (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Jun.06] :. Toward the end of 'achieving a balance' in the film, Justin Lin says, 'It was just basically a massage all the way through, from the writing to the production to the editing.'"

The Great Raid: The Director’s Cut (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[30.Jan.06] :. Archive shots of broken, diseased, and starved bodies provide a devastating illustration of the history that drives the film's fictions.

Annapolis (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[27.Jan.06] :. Annapolis is straight-up male melodrama.

Tristan & Isolde (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Jan.06] :. Long-haired, nubile, and eager to please, Tristan seeks a consuming passion, but is fated to fall limp in the arms of a girl who can't make up her mind.

The Great Raid (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Aug.05] :. The relationship between heroism and villainy remains reductive, subjective, and devastatingly predictable.

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Dec.04] :. Uncomfortable with his abilities (they have come on him like a virus), Peter repeatedly returns to his central question: Who am I?"

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.Jul.04] :. Though Spider-Man plainly enjoys saving kids from danger and even instructing them ('Hey you guys! No playing in the street'), he also longs for a more regular, selfish life.

Spider-Man: Deluxe Edition (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Jun.04] :. On screen, Spider-Man necessarily becomes more literal, less imaginative.

The Company (2003)

by Michael Healey

[22.Jan.04] :. Evocations of life's uncertainty -- an Altman specialty -- simultaneously expose the obstacles the ballet company must overcome in order to mount a production.

City by the Sea (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.Sep.02] :. All these horrors in one family might easily lead to questions concerning genetics and proclivity, codes of masculinity and violence.

Spider-Man (2002)

by Todd R. Ramlow

[2.May.02] :. Spider-Man doesn't get caught up in its own snazzy special effects.

Deuces Wild (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.May.02] :. A heavy-handed glob of a movie.

PopMatters - Television - Reviews - Freaks and Geeks

by Fred Kovey

It’s the year 2000 and eighties nostalgia is in full swing. Superstar drug casualty Drew Barrymore has already done the eighties, Hollywood-style, in 1998’s Adam Sandler vehicle, The...