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Adult-targeted animation among DVD releases this month

by Robert W. Butler [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[25.Mar.09] :. Things are busy on the animation front with three noteworthy efforts - all of them aimed squarely at adult audiences - making their DVD debuts this month. They include a spin-off of the big...

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Watchmen: Tales from the Black Freighter/Under the Hood (2009)

by Bill Gibron

[23.Mar.09] :. As it continues to underperform at the box office, it’s obvious now that the entire Watchmen phenomenon was one magical adventure that few were prepared to meet head on - or even...

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Which road will Oscar take? ‘Benjamin Button,’ ‘Slumdog’ travel on two distinct paths

by Duane Dudek [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT)]

[16.Feb.09] :. New Orleans is 8,870 miles from Mumbai, India, as the crow flies. The Academy Award nominees for best picture set in those cities - “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” and...

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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

Film Review

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Dec.08] :. It's an inelegant but provocative means to measure Benjamin and Daisy's ostensibly transcendent connection: as he grows young and she grows old, they share but a single moment when their bodies and visions and hopes can easily coincide.

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Talk, Talk, Talk: December 2008

by Bill Gibron

[12.Sep.08] :. Just like the end of an inspiring speech that may or may not succeed in making its point, these final four weeks before 2009 tend to define or defeat the entire awards season purpose.

Lady in the Water (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Jul.06] :. Story's whiter-than-white skin, bloody cuts, color-shifting hair, and need to keep wet make her a bizarre amalgamation of fantasies, alternately "male" and "childish."

The Notorious Bettie Page (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Apr.06] :. Mary Harron's smart new movie is less about Bettie Page than the many forces that made her 'notorious,' the moral hypocrisies and sexual repressions that shaped the '50s and persist today.

Resident Evil: Apocalypse - Special Edition (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Jan.05] :. Paul W.S. Anderson says, 'For me, there is in modern times, a definite fear of loss of identity. And that's what the undead represent. They are the mass, there's no differentiation between them.'"

Igby Goes Down (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Sep.02] :. Burr Steers' first feature is populated by exceptionally quirky characters, most related by blood.

Mr. Deeds (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[27.Jun.02] :. It's all a saggy, inept mess. And it really makes you long for Michael Keaton and 'The Banana Boat Song'.

PopMatters - Television - Reviews - Two of Us

by P. Nelson Reinsch

A disclaimer greets the viewer of Two of Us, currently repeating on the VH-1 cable channel about a fictional meeting between John Lennon and Paul McCartney, which says that the film is...

Shadow Magic (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

To this end, Raymond brings/represents advances not only in technology, but also in romance. He and Liu start making money and inadvertently siphoning off Lord Tan's audience, but this is potential disaster Liu frets because he's actually trying to become financially worthy of marriage to Ling.