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Film Review

Swing Vote

by Cynthia Fuchs

[1.Aug.08] :. Swing Vote's satire is consistently unsurprising, even if it's warranted.

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The PopMatters Summer 2008 Movie Preview Feature

The Return of the Popcorn Circus: August 2008

by Bill Gibron

[1.May.08] :. Talk about a crowded schedule. There are more offerings scheduled this month than in the previous two combined.

The PopMatters Summer 2008 Movie Preview

 

Film DVD Review

The Pride of the Yankees: Collector’s Edition

by Bruce Dancis [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[28.Mar.08] :. In time for baseball season comes a trio of worthy releases: Bull Durham, Eight Men Out and The Pride of the Yankees

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

Accepting the Blame: The Top Guilty Pleasures of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[17.Jan.08] :. PopMatters proffers its collection of 2007's most notable defective faves. And it's okay to laugh. After all, we'd probably do the same to you and your uncomfortable fixations as well.

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

 

PopMatters Picks: The 50 DVDs Every Film Fan Should Own Feature

Part 4: Challenging Convention

by PopMatters Staff

[21.Jun.07] :. As cinema went completely commercial, abandoning art for artifice, true aesthetic acumen was hard to come by. Luckily, for the movies included herein, it was their difference, as well as their diversity, that helped them stand out from the rest of the high concept hackwork.

PopMatters Picks: The 50 DVDs Every Film Fan Should Own

 

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The Movie Masochist: Television for women and serial killers

by James Franklin [McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)]

[14.Jun.07] :. If you have cable, you’ve probably seen programs on (or commercials for) Lifetime TV, the network that once marketed itself as “television for women.” This designation apparently...

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Costner ignores naysayers, embraces challenges of ‘Mr. Brooks’

by Jeff Strickler [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)]

[3.Jun.07] :. A lot of people thought that Kevin Costner should have passed on “Mr. Brooks.” You’re playing a serial killer, they said, and your fans won’t like that. It’s a small,...

 

Mr. Brooks (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[1.Jun.07] :. Even as you're wondering just how tedious the movie might get, William Hurt pops up to offer his snarky, sniffy version of "advice," and Mr. Brooks turns into something else.

 

Monkey Business (Part 2: June)

by Bill Gibron

[2.May.07] :. Apparently, as the sun's strongest rays finally settle over the movie going public, sequels are the remedy to cool down an overheated demographic. This month alone holds five examples of such redux refreshment. The rest of the choices are a variety pack of genres, ideas and possibilities.

 

The Guardian (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[29.Sep.06] :. Early snickers greeting The Guardian's trailers took an easy target. Kevin Costner in water: dude, it couldn't be good.

 

Rumor Has It… (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Dec.05] :. For a couple of minutes, such slippage between movie myths and mythic divas looks like it might turn charming, or maybe clever. But it doesn't.

 

The Upside of Anger (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Mar.05] :. Lurching into the simultaneously delicate and banal business of Terry's anger, not to mention her daughters' understandable bewilderment, the movie offers little in the way of complexity or sense.

 

The Untouchables: Special Collector’s Edition (1987)

by Leigh H. Edwards

[1.Nov.04] :. It's a story of a (nearly lone) lawman standing up against the bad guys, replete with a High Noon type showdown.

 

Open Range (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Aug.03] :. Kevin Costner's film assumes the usual mythology: the West 'died' when corporate thinking encroached on the boundless spirit of the cowboys.

 

Dragonfly (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Feb.02] :. Belief is a big deal in 'Dragonfly', the latest entry in 2002's February Film Dump Sweepstakes.

 

Thirteen Days (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

There are lots of men in Thirteen Days. Upstanding, committed men, wearing somber suits, short haircuts, and serious looks on their faces. And serious they should be, given that they’re...

 

3000 Miles to Graceland (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Even the magnetic Ice T -- who has about three minutes on screen as a super-sneery mercenary and who has notoriously bad taste when it comes to picking scripts -- looks like he's made an unusually bad decision with '3000 Miles to Graceland'.