Friday, July 30 2010
A Shark May Not Teach You Lessons About Goodness Like Santa Clause Does, But It Might Eat Your Head
Christmas in July is a superficial, commercial non-event, so why not celebrate a new Shark Week holiday, a holy season you can really sink your teeth into?
Thursday, March 27 2008
Chapter 27
The unsurprising punchline for Chapter 27 is that Mark David Chapman can't know what he's become.
Friday, January 11 2008
Super Duper Bad: The Worst Films of 2007
From Good Luck Chuck to Julie Taymor's ill-advised Beatlesque '60s tribute Across the Universe, PopMatters presents the dreck of 2007.
Thursday, August 9 2007
I Know Who Killed Me
Even if you accept the premise that viewers want to see their celebrities punished, the violence against Aubrey is extreme.
Friday, May 11 2007
Georgia Rule (2007)
Careless and predictable, Georgia Rule offers up the abuse victim's "sexy" acting out as alternately beguiling and blameworthy.
Tuesday, May 1 2007
Monkey Business (Part 1: May)
Talk about frontloading your approach. Each week in this first full month of patented popcorn movies finds another famous franchise icon making a major blockbuster bow. Only truly disastrous results from these guaranteed crowd-pleasers will keep the coffers from clogging with cash.
Monday, April 16 2007
Bobby (2006)
As reporter Warren Wilson remembers, "That would have been less of an impact on me, had I been shot [as he nearly was], than Kennedy being killed, stopped, in a moment in America's history, when we needed him and his advocacy more than ever before."
Thursday, November 16 2006
Bobby (2006)
With Kennedy serving as a symbol for what might have been, Bobby illustrates the problems he identifies.
