Wednesday, April 29 2009
Summer of Same: July 2009
In a rare attempt at novelty, July jets along with only Harry Potter and the Ice Age crew sampling continuing series spoils. The rest provide unknown pleasures.
Wednesday, January 14 2009
The Best Television Performers of 2008
More than anything, though, I wish all those political pundits would take some time off, to rest and let their vocal cords recuperate. That truly would make for a happy new year.
Wednesday, September 24 2008
Criminal Minds: Season Four Premiere
The fourth season premiere of Criminal Minds revisits 9/11 anxieties, as Special Agent Hotchner (Thomas Gibson) stumbles dazedly around a street in lower Manhattan, having nearly been blown to smithereens by a car bomb.
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.
Friday, December 14 2007
Alvin and the Chipmunks
Without moral or emotional guidance, overworked and overpraised, the kids become preening, self-involved monsters.
Wednesday, October 31 2007
Criminal Minds
Joe Mantegna brings to Rossi a singular mournfulness and lingering rage that are not turned inward and angsty, but instead bent outward, into a mien that looks cocky but is also ready for what's unknown.
