Tuesday, November 29 2011
Money, Sex, and Power: Contemporary Adaptations in John Guillermin’s King Kong
The 1976 King Kong updates this modern myth’s meanings for a vastly different social, economic, and cultural milieu, but it does so with a leaden obviousness that undermines its conclusions.
Friday, January 8 2010
Everything in its Right Place: The Best Female Acting Performances of 2009
Mazur checks out the year's best female acting and offers up a mostly alternative opinion to the boring Oscar-begging consensus picks including some you might not have heard about, yet.
Monday, April 20 2009
Grey Gardens
The new Grey Gardens is safe, providing a dash of self-reflexivity, but wasting more opportunities than it takes.
Friday, March 27 2009
Part 5: Toy Story 2 to Titus (November - December 1999)
On this final day of PopMatters' 1999 overview, awards season hype gives way to pure acting prowess and definitive directorial flair.
Wednesday, August 6 2008
The Bombing of Bonneville
Bonneville is firmly committed to the “Female Gaze” in an industry where everything is geared towards only what men want to see.
Wednesday, August 29 2007
Neverwas
How did a first time writer/ director manage to nab even one of these big guns, let alone a whole gaggle of them? Would that Neverwas never were…
Monday, August 7 2006
Dont Come Knocking (2006)
A vivid, genuine exploration of a hell-raiser entering his twilight years apologetically and with an open heart.


































