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The Old Curiosity Shop

by Lara Killian

[2.Jun.09] :. If you like your Dickens dark, this is about as bleak as it gets.

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PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007 Feature

Digital Dynamite: The 30 Best DVDs of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[25.Jan.08] :. 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.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007

 

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007 Feature

Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Male

by PopMatters Staff

[9.Jan.08] :. From the tender and eerie precision of Sam Riley's depiction of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis in Control to yet another superlative performance by Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood, PopMatters highlights the best male actors of 2007.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007

 

Film Review

Dedication

by Cynthia Fuchs

[30.Aug.07] :. It's Henry's movie, and for all his eccentricities and fixations and rages, he's a very conventional man.

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‘Bad Boys’ influenced the British makers of ‘Hot Fuzz’

by Joshua Klein [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[28.Jul.07] :. The British comedy “Hot Fuzz,” out this week on DVD, plays like a compendium of every action movie and cop thriller cliche ever made. The brilliance of creators Simon Pegg and Edgar...

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Film Review

Hot Fuzz (2007)

by Daynah Burnett

[24.Apr.07] :. Hot Fuzz is all about the guys. And who needs girls when you have guns?

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‘Hot Fuzz’: Filmakers approve the use of deadly farce

by Phoebe Flowers [South Florida Sun-Sentinel]

[20.Apr.07] :. "The one word that we bristle at is 'spoof.'"

 

‘Hot Fuzz’: An Over-the-top Brit-riff

by Roger Moore [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)]

[20.Apr.07] :. Simon Pegg is the silliest David Caruso since the real one in Hot Fuzz, an over-the-top Brit-riff on cop movies, cop shows and the CSI age we live in. All that’s missing are the...

 

Taking aim at cop movies with ‘Hot Fuzz’

by Jeff Strickler [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)]

[19.Apr.07] :. Most filmmakers hate the city-a-day promotion tours that inevitably end up producing a lot more sitting around—in airports, airplanes, taxis, hotel rooms and restaurants—than promoting....

 

Breaking and Entering (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[29.Jan.07] :. While Breaking and Entering leans heavily on its metaphors (see especially, the titular allusions), it doesn't make any of its roiling notions compelling.

 

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Oct.05] :. For all its possibilities -- and its crazily pleasant animations --the movie takes a more or less conventional narrative shape.

 

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[29.Apr.05] :. Ford Prefect (Mos Def) wanders into the film of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a little late, and in no hurry.

 

Love Actually (2003)

by Mary Colgan

[13.Nov.03] :. On occasion, the film allows a jaded sensibility to worm its way into this otherwise picturesque world.

 

The Office

by Christopher Sieving

[10.Feb.03] :. The humor [of 'The Office'] is as dry as vermouth; next to it, the 'Dilbert' comic strip is 'The Man Show'.