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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 Feature

The Signal and the Violence of American Identity Politics

by Timothy Gabriele

[12.Nov.08] :. The oppressor in The Signal is an underlying, parental figure in absentia. It is industrial civilization as pathology, inextricably and somehow willfully divorced from reality.

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Short Ends and Leader

Mess Hysteria: The Happening vs. The Signal

by Bill Gibron

[12.Jun.08] :. Newsweek Magazine must still be smarting. Back in 2002, as Signs was gearing up for its box office assault, the publication called M. Night Shyamalan “The Next Spielberg”....

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Film Review

The Signal

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Feb.08] :. Divided into three sections, the movie lays out an intimate, insidious relationship between TV and its consumers.

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