Thursday, April 22 2010
Armored
Two armored cars are robbed of $42 million by a batch of grimy characters, including Matt Dillon, who looks like a snake who’s been repeatedly beaten with a burnt stick.
Thursday, February 26 2009
The Black List: Vol. 2
The sheer beauty of the images creates its own sort of narrative, a visual demonstration of The Black List's original impetus to recover the typically "negative" denomination of the "black list" and reframe it as positive and inspiring.
Thursday, December 11 2008
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Even if CSI won't articulate its race politics, the introduction of Laurence Fishburne into this whiter-than-white team of investigators can't help but call up memories of the long-troubled Warrick (Gary Dourdan).
Friday, March 28 2008
21
Even if card counting is legal, this gangster-style brutality plainly cannot be, yet it provides long minutes of hackneyed menace, a B-movie plot point that only underlines 21's unoriginality.
Friday, January 25 2008
Digital Dynamite: The 30 Best DVDs of 2007
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.
Wednesday, December 19 2007
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmakers Apocalypse
The openness and honesty with which Eleanor Coppola portrays her husband is by far the greatest asset of Hearts of Darkness.
Wednesday, November 28 2007
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Not every comic book movie is geared toward the nearing middle aged geek - something naysayers of the Fantastic Four franchise fail to comprehend.
