Monday, August 25 2008
He’s Lost Control
The kids who grew up in the '90s had the haunted Kurt Cobain; my generation had the tormented Ian Curtis.
Monday, April 7 2008
20 Questions: Jena Malone
In-between The Ruins (just opened in US theatres) and The Go-Getter, opening in June, Jena paused while on tour to address PopMatters' 20 Questions.
The Ruins
The Ruins achieves something like a metaphor, as the tourists' fears infect their very beings.
Friday, January 11 2008
Super Duper Bad: The Worst Films of 2007
From Good Luck Chuck to Julie Taymor's ill-advised Beatlesque '60s tribute Across the Universe, PopMatters presents the dreck of 2007.
Wednesday, January 9 2008
Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Male
From the tender and eerie precision of Sam Riley's depiction of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis in Control to yet another superlative performance by Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood, PopMatters highlights the best male actors of 2007.
Monday, November 12 2007
Control
What could have easily ended up as a humorless exercise in hipster excess turns out warm and snappy.
Wednesday, November 7 2007
Control
Despite occasional strange and impossibly intimate reveries, the film lapses frequently into biopickish shorthand.
