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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

 

Film DVD Review

Mamma Mia!

by Barbara Herman

[12.Jan.09] :. The kind of movie whose campiness you just have to give into if you want to enjoy it -- and then you'll have a blast.

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Short Ends and Leader

Mamma Mia!: 2-Disc Special Edition

by Bill Gibron

[14.Dec.08] :. Sometimes, the cinema can be a lot like oil and water. Certain facets of a film can struggle to stay together, eventually separating like the fabled proverbial liquids. While it’s possible to...

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Film Review

Mamma Mia!

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Jul.08] :. Meryl Streep scampers and writhes with something like abandon in her tomboyish overalls, her glowing tan and perfectly arranged "wild" blond hair indicating Donna's stanch independence.

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‘Mamma Mia!‘s’ Amanda Seyfried talks about the price of fame

by Howard Gensler [Philadelphia Daily News (MCT)]

[17.Jul.08] :. Amanda Seyfried (pronounced SIGH-frid) says that her big eyes make her look a bit like a frog. But the Amanda sitting across a small table last month in a suite at New York’s Ritz-Carlton...

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‘Mamma’ Mangled

by Bill Gibron

[17.Jul.08] :. When it arrives in theaters tomorrow (18 July), Mamma Mia! will probably go down as one of the biggest hits of Summer 2008. It has all the elements that make for a bold box office champion -...

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The Return of the Popcorn Circus: July 2008

by Bill Gibron

[30.Apr.08] :. And it just doesn't stop. If part two in this three-ring play was packed with well hyped product, July just keeps the receipt treats coming.

 

Driving Lessons

by Kate Williams

[23.Aug.07] :. Harry Potter's Rupert Grint steps out of Hogwarts quietly, as if on tiptoe.

 

Becoming Jane

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Aug.07] :. Julian Jarrold's fictionalized biopic offers up big-boomy melodrama, full of broken hearts, romantic montages, and predictable plot turns.

 

Wah-Wah (2005)

by Matt Mazur

[19.Dec.06] :. The genuinely cinematic moments in Wah-Wah are few and far between, and are generally courtesy of the skillful performances.

 

Driving Lessons (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Oct.06] :. As if the "driving lessons" metaphor is not burdensome enough, the film presents Ben with a series of non-options.

 

Calendar Girls (2003)

by Lesley Smith

[18.Dec.03] :. A roll call of Britain's prime acting talent renders this movie watchable but cannot lift it beyond the forgettable.

 

Titanic Town (1998)

by Lesley Smith

The most important questions are framed as the contradictions facing the characters, not the rights and wrongs of any cause, thanks in part to the filmmaking team's attention to irony and nuance.

 

Billy Elliot (2000)

by Renee Scolaro Rathke

Behind a triumphant tale of self-discovery is a subtext of anxiety that ultimately enhances what might have been a pretty ordinary film.