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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

Off the Radar - The Top 30 DVDs of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[13.Jan.09] :. Oddly enough, while the major studios continue scratching their heads over how to sell yet another new format (Blu-ray) to disinterested consumers, several outside distributors made sure that this would be a digital year to remember.

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

 

Film DVD Review

Wall-E

by Jennifer Kelly

[9.Jan.09] :. The first half hour of Wall-E is a lyrical, magical achievement in filmmaking, which if it ended there, would make the movie an undisputed classic.

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The end is here: 9-11 attacks and the new millennium revive apocalyptic movies

by Joe Williams [St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MCT)]

[1.Oct.08] :. Flooded cities. A plague of blindness. Humanity huddled in bunkers. It’s just another night at the movies. The Katrina documentary “Trouble the Water,” the viral-outbreak drama...

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‘Wall-E,’ Pixar’s surprisingly political postmodern masterpiece

by Rod Dreher [The Dallas Morning News (MCT)]

[18.Jul.08] :. Conservatives love to complain about Hollywood liberalism, but most of the political films that shuffle through the cineplexes are standard-issue leftie hackwork that neither persuade nor succeed....

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Robot Holocaust

by Bill Gibron

[30.Jun.08] :. In the second half of our Disney discussion, the way in which the dystopian world of WALL*E was sold to a susceptible public is dissected.

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Consumer Apocalypse: WALL-E

by Chris Barsanti

[29.Jun.08] :. As part of a double dose of Disney Monday, Chris Barsanti looks at the recent release from CG savants Pixar.

 
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‘WALL*E’ is Wonderful!

by Bill Gibron

[27.Jun.08] :. By its very definition, imagination is limitless. The only true restrictions to the notion exist in the connection to actual human thought. Clearly, whoever is hiring (or perhaps, cloning) the...

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WALL∙E

by Cynthia Fuchs

[27.Jun.08] :. For much of WALL∙E, the titular robot speaks not a word, but instead whimpers or exclaims, his language an assortment of expressive erps and eeps.

 

The Return of the Popcorn Circus: June 2008

by Bill Gibron

[29.Apr.08] :. If May almost tent-poled itself out of existence, June will be even worse. After all, are audiences really ready for 13 major release in less than two months -- with more to come?

 

Curb Your Enthusiasm

by Jesse Hicks

[27.Sep.07] :. The world of Curb Your Enthusiasm revolves around "Larry David," a self-absorbed lout whose inability to grow up should have left him friendless long ago.

 

I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With

by Tricia Olszewski

[14.Sep.07] :. Instead of neuroses that are black-tinged and deep-seated, most of I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With's navel-gazing is genial to the point of being childlike.

 

This Filthy World (2006)

by Emma Simmonds

[12.Dec.06] :. The 'Pope of Trash' may look like a fiend, but he has the authority and enthusiasm of a professor – the kind who can pack the auditorium.

 

Fun with Dick and Jane (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Dec.05] :. For a comedy with so much politico-cultural baggage on its mind (and it's not above using Enron as a final punch line), Dick and Jane remains curiously inert.

 

Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Complete Fourth Season

by Tim Whitelaw

[22.Nov.05] :. The big laughs emerge from the same place they always have: Larry David's excruciating absorption in life's smallest problems.

 

Sleepover (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Jul.04] :. Grown up out of the Spy Kids franchise, awkwardly charming Alexa Vega has run smack into tweens heck.

 

Daddy Day Care (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.May.03] :. Too many scenes (and far too many montages) seem in slow motion, even though they involve kids moving at something approximating warp-speed.

 

Curb Your Enthusiasm

by Dan French

Larry David as Larry David seems very real, very whiny, very self-absorbed, and in the end, not someone who's much fun to hang out with.