Articles tagged "justin theroux"

TV DVD Review

John Adams (HBO Miniseries)

by Chris Barsanti

[23.Jun.08] :. Avoiding the powdered-wig iconography of the founding fathers, this film broadens the view of these revolutionary leaders and their tumultuous times.

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PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007 Feature

Digital Dynamite: The 30 Best DVDs of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[25.Jan.08] :. It was the year of the behemoth box set, the multi-disc triumph that tried to give long suffering fans everything their demanding little digital hearts ever desired. Here are PopMatters' 30 picks for the best DVDs of the year.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007

 

Film Review

Dedication

by Cynthia Fuchs

[30.Aug.07] :. It's Henry's movie, and for all his eccentricities and fixations and rages, he's a very conventional man.

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News

Another Cassavetes heard from: director Zoe

by Steven Rea [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[19.Jul.07] :. “Columbo’s playing Wiffle ball with me!” Zoe Cassavetes remembers thinking happily, back when she was a little girl in 1970s L.A. There she was, in her parents’ back yard,...

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Film Review

Broken English (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Jul.07] :. Parker Posey's performance during these potentially too-precious moments of anticipation is perfect.

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PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2006 Feature

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.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2006

 

Inland Empire (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Jan.07] :. Nikki's story takes her deep inside herself or deep inside the movie industry.No matter how you're inclined to read the film's final dancers, the scene offers a Lynchian Rorschach test. What you see tells you something about you.

 

Miami Vice (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Jul.06] :. Gong Li's face and form are made for this: she absorbs the movie's energies and just like that, it hardly matters what Crockett or Tubbs thinks he's doing.

 

Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Oct.03] :. Whatever the writers' ambitious intentions for 'plot,' the movie is essentially a series of first, fabulous dance and stunts scenes, and second, zany costume changes.

 

Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Jun.03] :. Madison Lee draws so near to Nat that she seems ready to lick the younger Angel's pretty, smile-plastered face.

 

The District / C.S.I.

by Cynthia Fuchs

Police Chief Mannion's know-it-allness is grating, no doubt. And like many crusaders before him, he maintains this attitude no matter what happens, blaming everyone else for what goes wrong.

 

Mulholland Drive (2001)

by Kirsten Markson

Like many of his other works, 'Mulholland Drive' has a dream logic, whereby characters morph, metaphors are made literal, and a stylistic fluidity juxtaposes with a disjointed narrative structure.