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Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999 Feature

Part 4: All About My Mother to Sleepy Hollow (October - November 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[26.Mar.09] :. Outsiders and oddballs make up Part Four's formidable filmmakers, an idiosyncratic collection of dreamers and visionaries.

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

Film Review

Confessions of a Shopaholic

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Feb.09] :. What is John Salley doing in this movie?

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PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008 Feature

The New Classics - The 30 Best Films of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[16.Jan.09] :. Unlike previous years, where classics came crawling out of the celluloid woodwork with regular reckless abandon, 2008 was more calm… and considered. That's not to say that choosing 30 top titles was hard. The difficulty in placing them in some manner of rank order suggests the actual depth of quality involved.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008

Film Review

Speed Racer

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.May.08] :. Inspired by the mostly beloved late '60s Japanese cartoon, Speed Racer is loud, large, and proudly crass.

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The PopMatters Summer 2008 Movie Preview Feature

The Return of the Popcorn Circus: May 2008

by Bill Gibron

[28.Apr.08] :. In the first act of this four-part production, Tinsel Town decides to do some unbelievable front loading. Will there be room for independent offerings, or former HBO carnal comedy divas? Who knows? Without a doubt, it's an interesting way to start the season.

The PopMatters Summer 2008 Movie Preview

Gone and Not Forgotten: The PopMatters DVD Wish List

by Bill Gibron

[24.Jan.08] :. A lot of good movies are still missing from DVD. Here is a list of 25 that PopMatters feels have been unceremoniously left to simply fade away.

Bee Movie

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.Nov.07] :. A possible trans-species romance turns instead into a strangely balanced relationship comprised of financial and legal accord -- with a bit of ecological crisis and subsequent alignment to boot.

Kevin Bacon adds a degree with ‘nerd’ hero of ‘Death Sentence’

by Barry Koltnow [The Orange County Register (MCT)]

[31.Aug.07] :. LOS ANGELES—It is almost impossible to sit next to Kevin Bacon in a Los Angeles hotel suite without silently playing the parlor game “The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.” Of course, no...

Death Sentence

by Cynthia Fuchs

[31.Aug.07] :. Death Sentence is smart enough about its generic limits: the violence is ragingly B, the dialogue goofy, the cops always steps behind.

Evan Almighty (2007)

by Bill Gibron

[22.Jun.07] :. Evan Almighty is expertly forged to be a superficial audience friendly phenomenon, the kind of movie that has critics and the cultured scratching their heads over its continued success.

Part 5: The Return of the Auteur

by PopMatters Staff

[22.Jun.07] :. That noise you heard near the start of the new millennium was the creative din of a brash new breed of filmmakers tearing down the traditions of mainstream moviemaking. Their motion picture mission statements -- including the ones featured on this list -- remain the rulebook for new generations of anxious film artists.

Monkey Business (Part 2: June)

by Bill Gibron

[2.May.07] :. Apparently, as the sun's strongest rays finally settle over the movie going public, sequels are the remedy to cool down an overheated demographic. This month alone holds five examples of such redux refreshment. The rest of the choices are a variety pack of genres, ideas and possibilities.

Father of the Pride: The Complete Series

by Will Harris

[12.Aug.05] :. Beyond the Roy factor, the likely reason for Father of the Pride's failure is that it's just a really odd show.

Coyote Ugly: The Unrated Extended Cut (2000)

by Will Harris

[6.Jul.05] :. Melanie Lynskey, despite being underused in the film, says more with a couple of gestures and expressions than anyone else does with dialogue.

Beyond the Sea (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Dec.04] :. Kevin Spacey looks alternately fatigued and awkward as Bobby Darin.

Punchline (1988)

by Valerie Franch

[9.Aug.02] :. Explores a dark side of stand-up comedy, but relies on stereotypes rather than shedding new light on the subject.

Normal, Ohio

by Rob Maitra

In a nation where the man who will be president is afraid to say the word 'gay' on national television, it might come as a surprise that one of its biggest television stars is playing a gay man on television.

What Planet Are You From? (2000)

by Anne Daughtery

There are great films; some of them win Oscars. There are truly bad films; some of them attract cult followings. Then there are mediocre films. And What Planet Are You From? is mediocrity at...

Storytelling (2001)

by Lucas Hilderbrand

In 'Storytelling', when Vi exclaims that her story 'really happened,' her professor observes, 'Once you start writing, it all becomes fiction.'"

One Night at McCool’s (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Any movie that offers proud big bully Andrew Dice Clay as a walking joke, however self-knowing or smug, is starting at a disadvantage. Andrew Dice Clay already made that joke himself, you know, and more than a few years ago.

The Emperor’s New Groove (2000)

by Ben Varkentine

There are a lot of things to like about 'The Emperor's New Groove', and one of the most compelling is the fact that the lead character, the teenaged Emperor Kuzco (voiced by David Spade) is largely unlikable.

Coyote Ugly (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

The girls are less reduced to t&a than they are passionately independent, passably intelligent, and definitely not taking any shit from their over-stimulated male bar patrons, whom one 'coyote' describes as having 'little toddlers in their pants.'"