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Bride Wars

by Matt Mazur

[27.Apr.09] :. You know what this movie will make you want to do? Elope.

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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 Review

Bride Wars

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Jan.09] :. Bride Wars is part cautionary tale, part fairy tale, and part Jerry Springer episode, as Liv and Emma's so-called dreams are wholly conventional and their antics are increasingly outrageous.

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Pop 20: A few more things worthy of bailout money

by Aaron Sagers [MCT]

[7.Oct.08] :. I am in a bailout state of mind. Since I’m not an economist, I can’t decide whether the $700 billion our MVPs, as in Most Vapid Politicians, gave to Wall Street (hopefully presented by Ed...

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The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview Feature

Talk, Talk, Talk: September 2008

by Bill Gibron

[9.Sep.08] :. From wars both past and present to a number of nail-biting thrillers, September is sizing up as a potentially profitable one.

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Film Review

Fool’s Gold

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Feb.08] :. In fact, Fool's Gold is pretty much bereft of bright spots.

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You, Me and Dupree (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Jul.06] :. This impossible place -- most desired object and least elucidated subject -- makes Molly typical of the women in white guy romcoms.

 

The Skeleton Key (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Aug.05] :. For anyone with even passing knowledge of Southern gothics, Violet (Gena Rowlands) is all red flags.

 

Raising Helen (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Oct.04] :. 'Raising Helen's a happy, peppy picture, with Kate Hudson and her legs,' says Garry Marshall.

 

Raising Helen (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.May.04] :. Helen's initial efforts to maintain her previous life are as glib as her inheritance of the children.

 

Le Divorce (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Aug.03] :. Like previous Merchant-Ivory productions, Le Divorce concerns culture clashes, disruptive expatriates, and squabbles over stuff.

 

Alex & Emma (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Jun.03] :. It is Alex's fantasy into which the film and Emma's seeming interests devolve.

 

How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.Feb.03] :. She's so cute, he's so cute, everyone's so cute.

 

The Four Feathers (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Sep.02] :. It's alarmingly short-sighted fiction, offering only occasional glimpses of the imperial project's fundamental viciousness and ignorance.

 

Gossip (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

As metaphor, the film's extreme look, its architecture, camera angles, weather -- externalizes the characters' extreme emotional (and occasionally mental) states.

 

Almost Famous (2000)

by Ben Varkentine

And yet, for a rock 'n' roll film set in the '70s, Almost Famous has surprisingly little sex and drugs on screen (though both are much discussed). Even when two or three of the 'band-aids' decide to deflower William, mainly to alleviate their boredom, it comes off more like a slumber party game than an act of real sexuality.

 

Almost Famous (2000)

by Mike Ward

Maybe in the deceptive world of fame (or almost-fame), this is the best version of intimacy available, although it's easier to attribute it to the characters' superficiality, and maybe a certain starry-eyed idealism on Cameron Crowe's part.