Monday, June 23 2008
John Adams (HBO Miniseries)
Avoiding the powdered-wig iconography of the founding fathers, this film broadens the view of these revolutionary leaders and their tumultuous times.
Friday, January 25 2008
Digital Dynamite: The 30 Best DVDs of 2007
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.
Thursday, August 30 2007
Dedication
It's Henry's movie, and for all his eccentricities and fixations and rages, he's a very conventional man.
Thursday, July 12 2007
Broken English (2007)
Parker Posey's performance during these potentially too-precious moments of anticipation is perfect.
Thursday, January 11 2007
The Pay Off: The Best Film of 2006
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.
Monday, January 8 2007
Inland Empire (2006)
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.
Friday, July 28 2006
Miami Vice (2006)
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.
Tuesday, October 21 2003
Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle (2003)
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.
Thursday, June 26 2003
Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle (2003)
Madison Lee draws so near to Nat that she seems ready to lick the younger Angel's pretty, smile-plastered face.
