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Science Is Fiction: 23 Films by Jean Painleve

by Ian Chant

[6.May.09] :. The varying styles range from meditative monochrome fantasies that wouldn’t be out of place in a Cocteau retrospective to surrealist inspired, almost hallucinatory ballets of movement and color.

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

OMG - The 20 Worst Films of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[15.Jan.09] :. There's bad, and then there's 2008 level bad. You know this list is looking down into a deep dark bottomless pit of cinematic despair when Mike Myers' shameful Love Guru didn't even make the Top 20!

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

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

Off the Radar - The Top 30 DVDs of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[13.Jan.09] :. Oddly enough, while the major studios continue scratching their heads over how to sell yet another new format (Blu-ray) to disinterested consumers, several outside distributors made sure that this would be a digital year to remember.

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

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

Celulloid Culpability - Top 10 Film Guilty Pleasures of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[13.Jan.09] :. Like comedy or music, one's choice in cinematic pleasure can be very personal - and very peculiar. Take this tantalizing list of shameful indulgences. You can argue over their artistic value, but their individuals rewards definitely speak to those who champion them.

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

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Hellboy II: The Golden Army (3 Disc Special Edition)

by Shaun Huston

[5.Dec.08] :. This limited “3-Disc Special Edition” is as much a tribute to the writer-director as it is a showcase for the film.

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‘Indiana Jones’ will open strong, but will it stay hot?

by Russ Britt [MarketWatch (MCT)]

[23.May.08] :. LOS ANGELES - It’s been nearly two decades since Indiana Jones graced the silver screen and while times have changed, the initial box-office draw of the aging adventurer is expected to be as...

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Recount

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.May.08] :. Recount doesn't quite argue that the system remains infinitely gameable for those who know it, those in power who wish to remain in power.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.May.08] :. It is a little surprising to see the silliness that leads to Crystal Skull's gargantuan climax, a series of antics simultaneously hyper and enervated.

Indiana Jones paved the road for dumb box-office thrill rides

by Carrie Rickey [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[20.May.08] :. Largely by cracking jokes and his bullwhip, Indiana Jones snared American hearts in the 1980s. Ever since, the indefatigable finder of incomparable objects in improbable places has continued to...

Harrison Ford returns to the real ‘let’s-pretend’ job that propelled his career

by Michael Phillips [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[19.May.08] :. When Harrison Ford attended Wisconsin’s Ripon College, he drifted over to the theater department from the philosophy department and stuffed a pillow under his shirt to play Mr. Antrobus in...

Karen Allen is back where she belongs: in an Indiana Jones movie

by Roger Moore [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)]

[19.May.08] :. The eyes still have that twinkle, though they twinkle behind wrinkles these days. The freckled girl-next-door grin is still infectious, the voice and laugh as plucky as we remember them. Karen Allen...

After 20 years, Harrison Ford returns to his signature role: Indiana Jones

by Gene Seymour [Newsday (MCT)]

[19.May.08] :. With most of our action movie icons, there are easily identifiable trademarks: John Wayne’s pigeon-toed swagger and slow-rolling drawl; Humphrey Bogart’s facial twitches and muted...

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.

Beyond the Gates (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Mar.07] :. Beyond the Gates, based on a true story from the the 1994 Rwandan genocide, suggests that ignorance and sense of privilege make a dangerous combination.

A Man for All Seasons: Special Edition (1966)

by Matt Mazur

[19.Feb.07] :. A Man for All Seasons is an overblown, stuffy history lesson without much to offer in the way of cinematic innovation. It's beautifully safe and painfully accurate.

The Pay Off: The Best Film of 2006

by PopMatters Staff

[11.Jan.07] :. For many of the movies on PopMatters' 2006 list of the year's best films, it is clear that a heavy personal and professional stake was riding on the final product.

V for Vendetta (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.Aug.06] :. "He's a pretty complex man," says Hugo Weaving of V. "He's been imprisoned and tortured and abused mentally and physically... and then burnt in fire."

Shooting Dogs (2004)

by Lester Pimentel

[7.Jul.06] :. Based on a true story and co-written by a BBC journalist who worked in Rwanda during the genocide, the film is an absorbing meditation on what men do in dark times.

The Proposition (2005)

by Matt Mazur

[26.May.06] :. Nick Cave's The Proposition blends equal parts Walkabout and Sergio Leone's grim atmospherics to illustrate the brutality of imperialism.

The Proposition (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.May.06] :. Signaling death and dryness, the flies also mark transitions from one location to another: everywhere, it seems, someone is dead or dying.

V for Vendetta (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Mar.06] :. The Natalie Portman film is an earnestly angry, vaguely philosophical, but ultimately generic action movie.

The Skeleton Key (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Aug.05] :. For anyone with even passing knowledge of Southern gothics, Violet (Gena Rowlands) is all red flags.

Hellboy: 2-Disc Special Edition (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Jul.04] :. Speaking in his commentary track, del Toro is keenly passionate about the film, the character, and Hellboy creator Mike Mignola.

Dogville (2003)

by Todd R. Ramlow

[15.Apr.04] :. The accusation that the film is 'anti-American' says less about Von Trier than it does about the American psyche.

Hellboy (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[1.Apr.04] :. The latest hero for our time is red. Fire engine red. Looming over the city from a rooftop, he puffs his cigar and glowers.

The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm (2000/2002)

by Mike Ward

[13.Feb.03] :. Radioactive poison is a legacy of laissez-faire capitalism's most guilty indulgence.

The Lord of the Rings (1978/2001)

by Sabadino Parker

[10.Sep.01] :. PULL.

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

What else could 'Captain Corelli's Mandolin' be, other than the frivolous and utterly forgettable movie that it is?"