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Voyage of the Dammed

by Terrence Butcher

[7.May.09] :. An affecting, if flawed, middlebrow drama about a seldom-discussed Depression-era tragedy.

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The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview Feature

Summer of Same: August 2009

by Bill Gibron

[30.Apr.09] :. With names like Tarantino, Lee, and Zombie, the final month of the season pulls out all the film geek stops. Still, the only guarantee is familiarity, not freshness.

The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview

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Blue Gold: World Water Wars

by Dan Heaton

[13.Apr.09] :. Painting a frightening picture of violence, greed and desperation, Bozzo reveals another growing crack in our fragile environment.

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‘Bolt’ is an Amiable, Action-Packed Adventure

by Bill Gibron

[5.Dec.08] :. In the highly competitive and lucrative world of CG animation, there’s Pixar…and then everyone else. While it’s clear that companies like Dreamworks, Fox, and the House of Mouse...

Short Ends and Leader

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Bolt

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Nov.08] :. Bolt's faith in his fiction is slightly pathetic, but it's not unrelated to the ways that children (as well as pets) are regularly conditioned.

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The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview Feature

Talk, Talk, Talk: November 2008

by Bill Gibron

[11.Sep.08] :. Like the sainted sigh of relief that comes after another shriek-filled All Hallow's Eve, November usually means the start of the 'nominate me' process for the proposed prestige pictures of 2008.

The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview

The List

by George Tiller

[26.Jun.08] :. A muddled bit of Southern Gothic lite, but somehow manages to be a pretty decent movie.

Accepting the Blame: The Top Guilty Pleasures of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[17.Jan.08] :. PopMatters proffers its collection of 2007's most notable defective faves. And it's okay to laugh. After all, we'd probably do the same to you and your uncomfortable fixations as well.

Halloween

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.Sep.07] :. In Carpenter's film, evil shows up right where you think you'd be safe. No one imagines he's safe in whitetrashland -- especially the section inhabited by a heavily inked up William Forsythe.

Rob Zombie’s ‘Halloween’ tries to explain the slasher’s psychology

by Terry Lawson [Detroit Free Press (MCT)]

[4.Sep.07] :. Michael Myers. It’s an ordinary name. Nothing menacing or peculiar. The kid next door. Which is what Michael Myers was—in “Halloween,” the low-budget 1978 thriller that...

Rob Zombie breathes new life into a classic fright film

by Rich Copley [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[31.Aug.07] :. "It just really felt, to me, growing up on the East Coast, like it was Halloween."

If . . . (1968)

by Michael Buening

[13.Jul.07] :. Watching If…. today, it still fails to provide any sort of answer for how tradition and change can be reconciled.

Monkey Business (Part 4: August)

by Bill Gibron

[4.May.07] :. In past years, Hollywood purposely counter programmed these renowned Cineplex dog days, trying to offset the perception that cinematic scraps were all the studios had to offer. From the look of this lame list, it's apparently back to the filmic fridge for some patently warmed over offerings.

In Good Company (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Jan.05] :. In Good Company pushes Carter and Dan up against one another, so that they can work through their mutual anxieties, resentments, and jealousies.

I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Nov.04] :. For all the inevitability of Will's descent, I'll Sleep When I'm Dead is an almost perversely moving experience.

I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.Jul.04] :. Will (Clive Owen) is a menace, even to the bad guys.

The Company (2003)

by Michael Healey

[22.Jan.04] :. Evocations of life's uncertainty -- an Altman specialty -- simultaneously expose the obstacles the ballet company must overcome in order to mount a production.

I Spy (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[31.Oct.02] :. The basic opposition between sheepish Alex and suave Kelly sets up a series of trivial conflicts, some less tedious than others.

Gangster No. 1 (2000)

by Kirsten Markson

[12.Jul.02] :. Gangster No. 1's style and plot are stale.