Thursday, October 16 2008

Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs: Part 3

By PopMatters Staff

Day Three - The final ten, a cross-culture collection teeming with big ideas, larger than life visions, and perhaps the greatest documentary on rugby you've probably never heard of.

Sunday, January 13 2008

Comanche Moon

By Cynthia Fuchs

The most outrageous and most pleasurable element in Comanche Moon, Inish Scull (Val Kilmer) is also its strangest, least plausible, and most convincing incarnation of "history."

Wednesday, October 10 2007

Part 3 - The New Networks

By PopMatters Staff

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.

Wednesday, April 12 2006

Brokeback Mountain (2005)

By Cynthia Fuchs

While the movie's poetry is often stunning, the DVD docs are decidedly and disappointingly banal.

Friday, December 9 2005

Brokeback Mountain (2005)

By Cynthia Fuchs

It's Alma's silence that makes Brokeback Mountain feel so serious. Her pain is neither exquisite nor elegiac. It is only hard.

Monday, December 5 2005

ER / The West Wing

By Samantha Bornemann

The West Wing's chief relationships have been tested and compromised, turning Sorkin's noble, fast-walking liberals into more than the sum of their quips and ideals.

Friday, March 26 2004

Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004)

By Cynthia Fuchs

In the sequel no one needs to see, the Scooby Gang grapples with the stress of stardom.

Thursday, June 13 2002

Scooby Doo (2002)

By Todd R. Ramlow

The main problem here is the script, or the lack thereof.

Sunday, January 1 1995

PopMatters - Television - Reviews - Freaks and Geeks

By Fred Kovey