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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

Ladies and Gentleman, the Fabulous Stains

by Shaun Huston

[16.Oct.08] :. As Corrine Burns, the 15-year-old Diane Lane, simultaneously naïve and hard-edged, negotiates the tensions inherent in rock stardom as well as anyone ever has on screen.

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TV Review

Recount

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.May.08] :. Recount doesn't quite argue that the system remains infinitely gameable for those who know it, those in power who wish to remain in power.

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

Digital Dynamite: The 30 Best DVDs of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[25.Jan.08] :. It was the year of the behemoth box set, the multi-disc triumph that tried to give long suffering fans everything their demanding little digital hearts ever desired. Here are PopMatters' 30 picks for the best DVDs of the year.

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

 

Film Review

Year of the Dog (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.May.07] :. Even as the film makes Peggy's life appear simple, the complexities she feels become clear in her responses to events that appear, at least at first, quite beyond her control.

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PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2006 Feature

The Pay Off: The Best Film of 2006

by PopMatters Staff

[11.Jan.07] :. For many of the movies on PopMatters' 2006 list of the year's best films, it is clear that a heavy personal and professional stake was riding on the final product.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2006

 

Inland Empire (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Jan.07] :. Nikki's story takes her deep inside herself or deep inside the movie industry.No matter how you're inclined to read the film's final dancers, the scene offers a Lynchian Rorschach test. What you see tells you something about you.

 

The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Oct.05] :. Prize Winner goes through odd motions to set Evelyn's taxing context and her admirable survival, its most extraordinary moment turns surreal.

 

Happy Endings (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Jul.05] :. Happy Endings begins with what seems quite an unhappy ending, when Mamie (Lisa Kudrow) is hit by a car.

 

Wild at Heart: Special Edition (1990)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Jan.05] :. 'The most rewarding thing about working with David,' says cinematographer Frederick Elmes, 'is helping him see the vision through.'"

 

Smooth Talk (1985)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.Dec.04] :. As he inhabits a movie based on a Joyce Carol Oates short story, Arnold is all kinds of metaphor.

 

We Don’t Live Here Anymore (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Aug.04] :. We Don't Live Here Anymore gives weight, indirectly, to the kids' belief that their parents form a unit.

 

Fat Man and Little Boy (1989)

by Matthew Callan

[3.May.04] :. The viewer is left feeling that the Manhattan Project would have been a fantastic topic for a miniseries, but is an awful one for a 120-minute studio flick.

 

Focus (2001)

by Kevin Devine

[18.Oct.01] :. William H. Macy plays Larry like a length of coaxial cable in a bowtie and a cardigan.

 

Novocaine (2001)

by Mike Ward

Novocaine's biggest concern seems to be with the act of lying, and Frank is far from the only guilty party.

 

I Am Sam (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

'I Am Sam' will not let these characters be: they must run the gamut of movie-of-the-week emotions... A to B.

 

Dr. T & The Women (2000)

by Mike Ward

We're stuck, 'Dr. T & The Women' seems to say. Men and women: this is simply how we are.