Articles tagged "kristen bell"

The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview Feature

Summer of Same: August 2009

by Bill Gibron

[30.Apr.09] :. With names like Tarantino, Lee, and Zombie, the final month of the season pulls out all the film geek stops. Still, the only guarantee is familiarity, not freshness.

The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview

 

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008 Feature

The New Classics - The 30 Best Films of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[16.Jan.09] :. Unlike previous years, where classics came crawling out of the celluloid woodwork with regular reckless abandon, 2008 was more calm… and considered. That's not to say that choosing 30 top titles was hard. The difficulty in placing them in some manner of rank order suggests the actual depth of quality involved.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008

 

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 DVD Review

Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Three-Disc Unrated Collector’s Edition)

by J.M. Suarez

[13.Oct.08] :. A better than average romantic comedy, despite a plot with few surprises, this owes a great deal of its success to Segal and the sincerity he brings to his character.

Recent DVD reviews

 

TV DVD Review

Heroes: Season 2

by Christel Loar

[2.Sep.08] :. Season 2 of Heroes had a lot to live up to. Some say it didn't quite succeed. This four-disc box set, loaded with extraordinary extra features, puts things right.

Recent DVD reviews

 

Film Review

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Apr.08] :. In Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Rachel is initially uninterested in Peter's story. It is, after all, the same story, again.

Recent Film reviews

 

High Redefinition: The 30 Best TV Shows of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[18.Jan.08] :. In memoriam of a TV season cut down before its prime time, PopMatters staff celebrates the Top 30 TV Shows of 2007. Some are old favorites. Others have barely made their impression felt. But at a time when all broadcast fortunes are up in the air, they definitely deserve the recognition.

 

Part 5 - Beyond the Envelope

by PopMatters Staff

[12.Oct.07] :. The format forced the issue among cult and commercial products. And TV on DVD highlighted the cream of the creative, forward thinking crop.

 

Veronica Mars

by Jesse Hassenger

[29.May.07] :. An uneven season of Veronica Mars only means that maybe a third of the episodes were terrific, and the rest were merely enjoyable, clever, and stylish.

 

Veronica Mars

by Roger Holland

[29.May.07] :. The final scenes of Veronica Mars offered no sense of closure. Rather, we were left with the sense we'd been denied a genuinely thrilling fourth season.

 

Net-Works: The Best TV of 2006

by PopMatters Staff

[10.Jan.07] :. You won't have to look far along your television dial to discover the Top TV picks from PopMatters staff. From 20 upward, each entry represents the boob tube at its best.

 

Veronica Mars

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Oct.06] :. "It's time for a fresh start," she muses while making her way across the Hearst College campus. "How 'bout you try not to piss anyone off this time around?"

 

Pulse (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Aug.06] :. The ghost mirrors Mattie and threatens her: even as she thinks she imagines it, she doesn't.

 

Veronica Mars

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Sep.05] :. Even as Veronica observes that 'all appears hunky-dory' now, she's not about to believe such nonsense.

 

Veronica Mars

by Jesse Hassenger

[17.May.05] :. With the end of the Lily Kane murder case, Veronica Mars is flirting with that television taboo: changing the status quo.

 

Veronica Mars

by Michael Abernethy

[4.Oct.04] :. You don't want to make Veronica Mars (Kristen Bell) angry. Her revenge is swift, public, and humiliating.

 

Spartan (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Mar.04] :. David Mamet extends his famous preoccupation with masculine preoccupations into the murky workings of the U.S. government.

 

Veronica Mars

by Jesse Hassenger

Beaver's budding criminal career underlined one of Veronica Mars' favorite themes: the abuse of power by the rich.