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Coraline

by Renee Scolaro Mora

[6.Feb.09] :. The other mother in Coraline is mother-love gone berserk, all-consuming and self-serving.

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Henry Selick steps out of Tim Burton’s shadow to make ‘Coraline’

by Rick Bentley [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[5.Feb.09] :. Tim Burton often gets the credit for directing “Nightmare Before Christmas.” He produced the film. Henry Selick directed it. Selick guided all of the creatures in that tale through...

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‘Coraline’ is a Classic

by Bill Gibron

[4.Feb.09] :. The nostalgic effect of stop motion animation is potent. Indeed, the moment a member of an earlier generation sees the static, superlative work of such single frame artistry, visions of Ray...

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Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs Feature

Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs: Part 1

by PopMatters Staff

[13.Oct.08] :. Day One - A trip back to the classic days of studio system Hollywood, complete with great musicals, amazing adventure yarns, and a couple of post-modern freak outs, just to keep things controversial and lively.

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The Spanish-American War: First Intervention

by Jack Patrick Rodgers

[30.Jul.07] :. Privately, Roosevelt felt that the thrill of warfare was good for building a young man’s character, and he didn’t want to miss the opportunity for his generation to channel its patriotism into the glorious cause of battle.

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The PopMatters Summer 2007 Movie Preview Feature

Monkey Business (Part 1: May)

by Bill Gibron

[1.May.07] :. Talk about frontloading your approach. Each week in this first full month of patented popcorn movies finds another famous franchise icon making a major blockbuster bow. Only truly disastrous results from these guaranteed crowd-pleasers will keep the coffers from clogging with cash.

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The Crusades: Crescent & The Cross

by Michael Buening

[3.Nov.05] :. When a battle reaches its peak, this documentary's melange of visual and aural resources -- scholarly commentary, digital animation-assisted recreations, maps, and a commentator illustrating the movements at present ruins -- reaches a fever pitch.

 

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Jan.05] :. The first black Heavyweight Champion of the World, 1908 to 1915, Jack Johnson was rowdy, smart, rebellious, and proud.

 

Barbershop: DVD Collector’s Set (2002/2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Nov.04] :. The Barbershop movies focus their energies on familial feelings and communal inclinations, and Cedric's wily jokes.

 

The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Jun.04] :. The return of Riddick (Vin Diesel) begins with lots of noise.

 

Hollywood Homicide (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Oct.03] :. My intention was to make a picture that on one level was a genre movie, summer movie, kind of a cop movie, whatever that genre is, and at the same time, to serve different gods.

 

Hollywood Homicide (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Jun.03] :. Short version: Joe's hardheaded and eats cheeseburgers, K.C.'s into fluidity and bean sprouts.

 

Agent Cody Banks (2003)

by Jesse Hassenger

[13.Mar.03] :. Cody Banks' first assignment is to 'get close' to a popular girl whose scientist father is involved with a nanotechnology-based plot to, like, destroy the world and stuff.

 

Barbershop (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Sep.02] :. Barbershop's multiple charms are all sweet.

 

The Job

by Dan French

PULL.

 

Where the Heart Is (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Thank god for Joan Cusack. As the sole truly cynical character in TV producer Matt (Roseanne, A Different World) Williams’s feature film directing debut, she is desperately...

 

Pitch Black (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

The scene is grim and very familiar: a hulk of a space ship crawls through the starry darkness, then runs into unexpected trouble, such that its crew is awakened from travel-slumber ahead of schedule.

 

Pitch Black (2000)

by P. Nelson Reinsch

The spirit of world class schlock-horror promoter William Castle was in the theater recently, during a preview screening of Pitch Black, as flashlights were given to a number of audience members.