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TV Review

Dexter: Season Three Premiere

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Sep.08] :. The moral muddling is never resolved in Dexter. The more Dexter (Michael C. Hall) insists on his rightness, the more limited his vision appears.

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American Experience: Roberto Clemente

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Apr.08] :. Clemente was a brilliant ballplayer, but also conflicted and complicated, as demonstrated in Bernardo Ruiz's documentary, Roberto Clemente.

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PopMatters Picks: The Best of TV on DVD Feature

Part 5 - Beyond the Envelope

by PopMatters Staff

[12.Oct.07] :. The format forced the issue among cult and commercial products. And TV on DVD highlighted the cream of the creative, forward thinking crop.

PopMatters Picks: The Best of TV on DVD

 

Film Review

The Jane Austen Book Club

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Sep.07] :. The movie abandons any aspiration to Austen's wit or social critique, and lapses instead into total triteness.

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TV Review

Cane

by Cynthia Fuchs

[25.Sep.07] :. Cane's soap operatic set-up is both efficient and florid, laying out both familial continuity and class distinctions.

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PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2006 Feature

Time Encapsulating: The Best DVDs of 2006

by PopMatters Staff

[10.Jan.07] :. From solid single issues to amazingly complete film and television compilations, the works highlighted here argue for DVD's continued importance.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2006

 

The West Wing

by David Swerdlick

[16.Nov.05] :. There are growing overlaps between politics, news, and entertainment. Hard news has taken a back seat to feature journalism and talk shows, real politics to realpolitik.

 

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.May.05] :. For all its lavish effects, Sith's primary purpose is to showcase Anakin's dilemma.

 

The West Wing

by Michael Abernethy

As is often the case with presidential terms, the Bartlett administration ended with great pomp and little circumstance.

 

Price of Glory (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Price of Glory opens with a boxing match in Phoenix, Arizona, 1977. While the mostly Mexican/Latino ringside crowd yells and hoots, a young man takes a terrible beating. His trainer urges him on, his face is bruised and panicked, and the scene lurches into that boxing film cliche, the eight-frames-per-second knock-out punch: his jaw contorts, his blood flies, and he hits the floor.

 

Bless the Child (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Cody's special in a very particular way -- in a second-coming kind of way -- which, in movie-logic, makes her the prime target for a slew of Satan's minions.