Articles tagged "joe anderson"

Column: The Box Office Belletrist

He’s Lost Control

by Jennifer Makowsky

[25.Aug.08] :. The kids who grew up in the '90s had the haunted Kurt Cobain; my generation had the tormented Ian Curtis.

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Ruining It for Everyone

by Bill Gibron

[7.Jul.08] :. Sometimes, you have to wonder what goes on in a marketer’s head. Let’s say you have a good movie - granted, a niche genre effort, but a good film none the less. Now, you know that most...

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Ode to Joy: Joy Division / Control (2007)

by Bill Gibron

[1.Jun.08] :. The most revolutionary thing about punk wasn’t the music, though it’s hard to imagine that ‘70s listeners were ready for the Ramones/Sex Pistols style of cacophonous crash and burn....

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20 Questions Feature

Jena Malone

by PopMatters Staff

[7.Apr.08] :. 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.

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News

Scott Smith’s novel ‘The Ruins’ comes to the big screen

by Rene Rodriguez [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[4.Apr.08] :. Scott Smith hadn’t even finished writing “The Ruins” - and Stephen King had not yet hailed it as “the best horror novel of the new century” - when Hollywood studios...

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Film Review

The Ruins

by Cynthia Fuchs

[4.Apr.08] :. The Ruins achieves something like a metaphor, as the tourists' fears infect their very beings.

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Super Duper Bad: The Worst Films of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[11.Jan.08] :. From Good Luck Chuck to Julie Taymor's ill-advised Beatlesque '60s tribute Across the Universe, PopMatters presents the dreck of 2007.

 

Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Male

by PopMatters Staff

[9.Jan.08] :. 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.

 

Control

by Matt Mazur

[12.Nov.07] :. What could have easily ended up as a humorless exercise in hipster excess turns out warm and snappy.

 

Control

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Nov.07] :. Despite occasional strange and impossibly intimate reveries, the film lapses frequently into biopickish shorthand.

 

A new script for Hollywood war movies

by Carrie Rickey [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[11.Oct.07] :. Anti-war demonstrators storm the Pentagon in the movie “Across the Universe.” A career soldier protests the Iraq conflict in “In the Valley of Elah.” The tactics of an elite...

 

Across the Universe

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Sep.07] :. Such structural spottiness -- great numbers punctuating humdrum character arcs -- is hardly unusual in a musical.

 

She’s the guide on this magical mystery tour

by Rene Rodriguez [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[20.Sep.07] :. NEW YORK—When visionary film and theater director Julie Taymor (“Frida,” “Titus,” Broadway’s “The Lion King”) signed on to make a musical about the...

 

Copying Beethoven (2006)

by Matt Mazur

[20.Apr.07] :. While Copying Beethoven is a technically well-made, good-looking film, there doesn't seem to be any true soul present.

 

Copying Beethoven (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Nov.06] :. Ed Harris is inspired, inventive and nuanced. At times he appears to be performing in another movie, the better one that might have been.