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The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview Feature

Summer of Same: May 2009

by Bill Gibron

[27.Apr.09] :. May's titles include the fourth films in two aging franchises, more Pixar perfection, and the reboot of a TV series from 40 years ago. And they say there are no new ideas.

The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview

 

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

 

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

 

Film DVD Review

Wall-E

by Jennifer Kelly

[9.Jan.09] :. The first half hour of Wall-E is a lyrical, magical achievement in filmmaking, which if it ended there, would make the movie an undisputed classic.

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The end is here: 9-11 attacks and the new millennium revive apocalyptic movies

by Joe Williams [St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MCT)]

[1.Oct.08] :. Flooded cities. A plague of blindness. Humanity huddled in bunkers. It’s just another night at the movies. The Katrina documentary “Trouble the Water,” the viral-outbreak drama...

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‘Wall-E,’ Pixar’s surprisingly political postmodern masterpiece

by Rod Dreher [The Dallas Morning News (MCT)]

[18.Jul.08] :. Conservatives love to complain about Hollywood liberalism, but most of the political films that shuffle through the cineplexes are standard-issue leftie hackwork that neither persuade nor succeed....

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Robot Holocaust

by Bill Gibron

[30.Jun.08] :. In the second half of our Disney discussion, the way in which the dystopian world of WALL*E was sold to a susceptible public is dissected.

 

Consumer Apocalypse: WALL-E

by Chris Barsanti

[29.Jun.08] :. As part of a double dose of Disney Monday, Chris Barsanti looks at the recent release from CG savants Pixar.

 
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Short Ends and Leader

‘WALL*E’ is Wonderful!

by Bill Gibron

[27.Jun.08] :. By its very definition, imagination is limitless. The only true restrictions to the notion exist in the connection to actual human thought. Clearly, whoever is hiring (or perhaps, cloning) the...

Short Ends and Leader

 

WALL∙E

by Cynthia Fuchs

[27.Jun.08] :. For much of WALL∙E, the titular robot speaks not a word, but instead whimpers or exclaims, his language an assortment of expressive erps and eeps.

 

The Return of the Popcorn Circus: June 2008

by Bill Gibron

[29.Apr.08] :. If May almost tent-poled itself out of existence, June will be even worse. After all, are audiences really ready for 13 major release in less than two months -- with more to come?

 

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.

 

Cheers: The Complete Eighth Season

by Nikki Tranter

[26.Jul.06] :. The classic Woody one-liner doesn't further a plot, but it does reaffirm his earnest oddness.

 

Toy Story: 10th Anniversary Edition (1995)

by Jesse Hassenger

[5.Oct.05] :. Ten years on, much of Pixar's Toy Story, the first computer-animated feature film, is as sweet and smart as ever.

 

The Incredibles (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Mar.05] :. Its snark makes The Incredibles one of those cartoons that mainstream, self-knowing adults might appreciate along with their kids.

 

The Incredibles (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Nov.04] :. Instead of dolls and fishies, the stars of the The Incredibles are angsty adults, specifically, superheroes whose flying-high heyday is over.

 

Spirited Away (2001/2002)

by Scott Thill

[3.Oct.02] :. America is better off with Miyazaki playing in the malls and the multiplexes than Monsters, Inc.