Tuesday, September 9 2008
Talk, Talk, Talk: September 2008
From wars both past and present to a number of nail-biting thrillers, September is sizing up as a potentially profitable one.
Wednesday, March 26 2008
The Perfect Lean, Mean, Macho Machine
The Die Hard series is a true rollercoaster of visual excesses guaranteed to raise the viewer’s adrenaline levels – while invoking intriguing ideological and cultural subtexts that deal with race, gender, masculinity, and social anxieties.
Friday, January 25 2008
Digital Dynamite: The 30 Best DVDs of 2007
It was the year of the behemoth box set, the multi-disc triumph that tried to give long suffering fans everything their demanding little digital hearts ever desired. Here are PopMatters' 30 picks for the best DVDs of the year.
Thursday, January 11 2007
The Pay Off: The Best Film of 2006
For many of the movies on PopMatters' 2006 list of the year's best films, it is clear that a heavy personal and professional stake was riding on the final product.
Monday, January 8 2007
Inland Empire (2006)
Nikki's story takes her deep inside herself or deep inside the movie industry.No matter how you're inclined to read the film's final dancers, the scene offers a Lynchian Rorschach test. What you see tells you something about you.
Monday, April 24 2006
Casanova (2005)
This would be the cleaned-up, wearisome, supposedly romantic version of the notorious Casanova.
Friday, January 6 2006
Casanova (2005)
Gaudy and giddy, this Casanova is full of energy but also strangely limp.
Thursday, May 19 2005
William Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice (2004)
Pacino contains Shylock's temper as reaction, looking simultaneously vile and vulnerable, hardly a simple balance.
