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Articles tagged "lizzy caplan" TV ReviewTrue Bloodby Cynthia Fuchs[14.Jun.09] :. True Blood's second season showcases the similarities between fundamentalisms -- whether Christian or pagan.  PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008 FeatureThe New Classics - The 30 Best Films of 2008by PopMatters Staff[16.Jan.09] :. Unlike previous years, where classics came crawling out of the celluloid woodwork with regular reckless abandon, 2008 was more calm… and considered. That's not to say that choosing 30 top titles was hard. The difficulty in placing them in some manner of rank order suggests the actual depth of quality involved. PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008  NewsThe end is here: 9-11 attacks and the new millennium revive apocalyptic moviesby Joe Williams [St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MCT)][1.Oct.08] :. Flooded cities. A plague of blindness. Humanity huddled in bunkers. It’s just another night at the movies. The Katrina documentary “Trouble the Water,” the viral-outbreak drama...  The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview FeatureTalk, Talk, Talk: September 2008by 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  Film DVD ReviewCloverfieldby Erik Hinton[21.Apr.08] :. By being both absolutely verisimilar and absolutely unreal, Cloverfield highlights the extent to which reality is natively constructed.  News‘Mockumentaries’ make the outlandish seem trueby Robert W. Butler [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][18.Jan.08] :. In the new movie “Cloverfield” a towering monster runs amok in New York City, knocking over buildings and collapsing bridges. No, it’s not a very original idea. But... Cloverfieldby Cynthia Fuchs[18.Jan.08] :. The focus on delusional heroism may be Cloverfield's most salient trick. The Classby Michael Abernethy[25.Sep.06] :. Because so much was going on, the pilot episode had the feeling of a 30-minute trailer: "Here are our characters, tune in next week to see what happens." Relatedby Samantha Bornemann[12.Oct.05] :. Given its pedigree, Related makes its performance anxiety annoyingly audible. Mean Girls (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[20.Sep.04] :. Concerns Cady's transformation, as she's subjected to high school and the 'mean girls' who prowl its corridors. Mean Girls (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[29.Apr.04] :. In Girl World, as in any feral environment, 'When you get bitten by a snake, you're supposed to suck the poison out.'" |
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