Articles tagged "lance henriksen"

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Serious Flaw Threatens ‘Appaloosa’s’ Excellence

by Bill Gibron

[2.Oct.08] :. When the Western died, it did so because of two distinct reasons. First, the media had so saturated the audience with as many warmed over oaters as possible that even fervent devotees screamed...

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Film Review

Appaloosa

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.Oct.08] :. Men are weathered in Appaloosa, a one-saloon town in 1882's New Mexico Territory.

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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.

The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview

 

PopMatters Picks: The Best of TV on DVD Feature

Part 3 - The New Networks

by PopMatters Staff

[10.Oct.07] :. It would never work... no one challenged the reigning broadcast junta and survived. No surprise then that the upstarts snuck in and changed the face of TV forever.

PopMatters Picks: The Best of TV on DVD

 

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

 

Film DVD Review

Abominable (2006)

by Brian Holcomb

[2.Nov.06] :. In many ways, Shifrin can be seen as the contemporary version of Don Glut, that monster movie obsessed kid from the '60s who hung around with Forrest Ackerman and made Super-8mm epics in his backyard featuring all of his Favorite Monsters of Filmland.

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The Garden (2005)

by Bill Gibron

[26.Jul.06] :. Forget Sisyphus endlessly pushing that rock up the hill. Imagine having to listen to a gravel-voice Devil read from his own copy of Chicken Soup for the Soul until the end of time.

 

Hellraiser: Hellworld (2005)

by Tim O'Neil

[28.Sep.05] :. While Hellworld is a pretty good generic horror movie, it is an abysmal Hellraiser film.

 

Millennium: The Complete Second Season

by Marco Lanzagorta

[24.Feb.05] :. Frank's newly troubled family life was the first of many alterations made to the format of Millennium during its second season.

 

Alien vs. Predator (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Jan.05] :. The monsters are functions of the franchise, but also vaguely resistant, less transparent than they seem.

 

Alien vs. Predator (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[27.Aug.04] :. King of the video game movies, director Paul W.S. Anderson continues to meet and resist expectations with his latest, Alien vs. Predator.