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Film Review

Away We Go

by Tricia Olszewski

[12.Jun.09] :. Away We Go is breezy and summer-appropriate -- but its central couple still has problems.

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The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview Feature

Summer of Same: June 2009

by Bill Gibron

[28.Apr.09] :. This month's "original" fare offers a take on a Sid and Marty Krofft classic, more battling seizure robots, and the retaking of '70s subway thriller. Everything old is new again.

The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview

 

Film Review

State of Play

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Apr.09] :. In this new universe where facts are mutable and ends are means, so-called ethical triumphs can only be short-term.

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

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

 

News

Going legit: Why movie stars need live theater

by Chris Jones [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[4.Oct.08] :. NEW YORK—Flushed and sweaty from his exertions, Daniel Radcliffe walked to the front of a Broadway stage and drank in the applause like an “American Idol” act on his first big...

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News

Don Cheadle likes to be surprised, so he looks for a diversity of roles

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

[28.Aug.08] :. If you say “John Wayne,” you know what you’re getting. If you say “Don Cheadle,” prepare to be surprised. “I didn’t get into this business to do the same...

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Traitor

by Cynthia Fuchs

[27.Aug.08] :. While the film appears at first to be complicating the definition of "traitor," it's not long before the potential meanings are reductive and literal.

 

Space Chimps

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Jul.08] :. Lacking forward motion, Space Chimps turns itself in circles.

 

The Return of the Popcorn Circus: July 2008

by Bill Gibron

[30.Apr.08] :. And it just doesn't stop. If part two in this three-ring play was packed with well hyped product, July just keeps the receipt treats coming.

 

The Lookout (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[30.Mar.07] :. Gordon-Levitt makes Chris' efforts to look at himself honestly seem quite complicated, a series of steps both typical and original.

 

Actor’s witty, honest songs broaden his patchwork-quilt life

by Geoff Gehman [The Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.)]

[27.Oct.06] :. Jeff Daniels is an actor you can trust even when you don’t trust his characters. He’s believably smooth and edgy whether he’s an idiot (“Dumb and Dumber”), a serial...

 

Infamous (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Oct.06] :. When Truman quite gleefully describes his plan to use 'fictional techniques' to tell his nonfiction story, to shape the Clutter murders as an emblem of cultural malaise, Nelle insists on a knowable distinction between fact and fiction.

 

The Squid and the Whale (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[4.Nov.05] :. As Noah Baumbach's film tracks Walt's slow evolution during the months surrounding his parents' divorce, it keeps something of a distance, wry and observant.

 

Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Oct.05] :. Shot in exquisite black and white, George Clooney's portrait of Edward R. Murrow is partly reverential, partly probing.

 

Because of Winn-Dixie (2005)

by Roger Holland

[16.Sep.05] :. Simple, kind, honest, and unpatronising, Because of Winn-Dixie handles the friendship between Opal and her mutt quite perfectly.

 

Imaginary Heroes (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[4.Mar.05] :. Dan Harris's Imaginary Heroes keeps digging into Sandy's darkly-secreted past, producing revelations less surprising than wearisome.

 

Ragtime (1981)

by Nikki Tranter

[29.Nov.04] :. Profound as Coalhouse walker's story might be, Ragtime is about far more.

 

Heartburn (1986)

by James Oliphant

[12.Jul.04] :. In Heartburn, we're not privy to any clues that Mark might be the unfaithful party, even though we know it's a plot device coming down the track like a Metroliner.

 

Gods and Generals (2002)

by Josh Jones

[28.Feb.03] :. Avoids examining the underlying cause of the Civil War -- the South's terror of abolition -- and instead remembers the Confederacy as a noble army defending its 'homeland'.

 

Blood Work (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Aug.02] :. PULL.

 

Something Wild (1986/2001)

by David Sanjek

PULL.