Articles tagged "matt stone"

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999 Feature

Part 2: The Virgin Suicides to The Blair Witch Project (May - August 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[24.Mar.09] :. In Part Two of our look at the most memorable films of 1999, we experience music, foul-mouthed mayhem, and a late, great auteur's final cinematic statement.

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

 

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South Park: The Complete Twelfth Season

by Bill Gibron

[12.Mar.09] :. Boy, Trey Parker and Matt Stone have sure come a long way since the days when they hand animated construction paper cut outs of various shapes to create their anarchic look at life in a small...

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PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008 Feature

Off the Radar - The Top 30 DVDs of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[13.Jan.09] :. Oddly enough, while the major studios continue scratching their heads over how to sell yet another new format (Blu-ray) to disinterested consumers, several outside distributors made sure that this would be a digital year to remember.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008

 

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008 Feature

Back to Basics - The 30 Best TV Shows of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[12.Jan.09] :. The Year in TV was a lot like the US economy: struggling until summer and then tanking under the hope of a 2009 comeback. Still, our staff found 30 solid reasons to be cheerful come entertainment investment time.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008

 

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South Park: The Cult of Cartman - Revelations

by Derek Beres

[17.Dec.08] :. Cartman shows us gaping holes in our cultural and individual patterns: elitism, fundamentalism, and overt and habitual ignorance.

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Cannibal! The Musical: 13th Anniversary 2-Disc ‘Shpadoinkle’ Edition

by Bill Gibron

[22.Nov.08] :. Living down a legacy can be hard. For Trey Parker and Matt Stone, it’s almost impossible. Long before there was South Park, Comedy Central, Team America: World Police, and the...

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South Park - The Cult of Cartman: Revelations

by Bill Gibron

[12.Oct.08] :. Never pretend to be handicapped. Know what awaits you in Heaven. Use racial tolerance to get what you want. Never swear on television. Stay HIV positive. Never take a joke too far. Never give up on...

 

South Park: The Complete Eleventh Season

by Bill Gibron

[14.Aug.08] :. It had a strange sense of serendipity to it. On the same week as its release on DVD, Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s now classic animated TV series was faced with the loss of the late, lamented...

 

High Redefinition: The 30 Best TV Shows of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[18.Jan.08] :. In memoriam of a TV season cut down before its prime time, PopMatters staff celebrates the Top 30 TV Shows of 2007. Some are old favorites. Others have barely made their impression felt. But at a time when all broadcast fortunes are up in the air, they definitely deserve the recognition.

 

Christmas Time In South Park

by Stuart Henderson

[3.Dec.07] :. This little collection, a compilation of seven Christmas episodes from the years 1997-2004, is a pretty great one-disc example of both the deeply disgusting depths and the insightful heights South Park manages to reach.

 
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South Park: The Complete Tenth Season

by Bill Gibron

[29.Aug.07] :. This is the season when the series became self-aware, when addressing the constant media scrutiny lead to episodes that pushed the boundaries of satire and taste.

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South Park: The Complete Eighth Season

by Jesse Hicks

[11.Dec.06] :. South Park's eighth season is dubbed "the year from hell" by co-creator Trey Parker.

 
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South Park

by Sean Ferrell

[18.Oct.06] :. As the boys grew pimply and fat (Cartman got fatter), the gaming company focused on finding more consumers. Everyone was at fault, from kids to corporate suits.

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South Park: The Complete Seventh Season

by Tim O'Neil

[3.Apr.06] :. Parker and Stone frequently use South Park as a platform for their libertarian views, and usually, it doesn't detract from the show's centrist, common-sense attitudes.

 

South Park: The Complete Sixth Season

by Tim O'Neil

[27.Oct.05] :. Regardless of their childishness, the protagonists of South Park are, like their creators, fundamentally decent (except for Cartman, who represents the zenith of selfish indecency).

 

South Park

by Bill Gibron

[26.Oct.05] :. Parker and Stone are like observational stand-up comics, without all the wry self-referencing and glib performance shtick.

 

Team America: World Police: Special Collector’s Edition (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.May.05] :. Parker and Stone plainly love the size of this outrageous project, but they also understand and show off how silly that love is.

 

Team America: World Police (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Oct.04] :. The much-ballyhooed parody of Jerry Bruckheimer-style action pictures is aptly violent, delirious, and outsized (in its miniature-puppet way).

 

Bowling for Columbine (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[25.Aug.03] :. 'John Ashcroft and his ilk are something to fear.'"

 

Bowling for Columbine (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[31.Oct.02] :. Why are people scared? This question lies at the heart of Michael Moore's filmic essay on gun violence in the United States.