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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 Tudors: Season Three Premiere

by Todd R. Ramlow

[9.Apr.09] :. The Tudors reminds us that, like Islam and Judaism today, Christianity has had, and undoubtedly continues to have, its own fundamentalists, ideologues, and terrorists.

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

Part 5: Toy Story 2 to Titus (November - December 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[27.Mar.09] :. On this final day of PopMatters' 1999 overview, awards season hype gives way to pure acting prowess and definitive directorial flair.

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

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

A Gallery of Good Works: The Best Films of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[11.Jan.08] :. From Julian Schnabel's artsy The Diving Bell and the Butterfly to the legendary Coen Brothers splendid adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men, PopMatters counts down the 30 best films of 2007.

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

The Best Big Screen Eye Candy of 2007

by Daynah Burnett

[4.Jan.08] :. When flipping through my mental catalog of the year's films, certain scenes stand out. This past year offered a veritable feast of visual goodies.

Filmmaker as artist: With so much talent, what’s a little ego?

by Steven Rea [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[3.Jan.08] :. It could be a Zen koan, what just came out of Julian Schnabel’s mouth: “Nobody knows better than you what you need to do, even if you don’t know what you’re...

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le Scaphandre et le Papillon)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[30.Nov.07] :. The movie follows the outline of Jean-Dominique Bauby's memoir, not only recounting his former, super-glam playboy life, but also reckoning with his current condition, asserting a self without speech or gesture.

Rush Hour 3

by Bill Gibron

[18.Aug.07] :. Chris Tucker is smart as Hell. Don’t believe it? Well, can you name another actor earning $25 million for doing the same thing he’s done for the last nine years -- the EXACT same thing, mind you.

Rush Hour series was ‘meant to be,’ says Chris Tucker

by Dixie Reid [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[13.Aug.07] :. The last time we saw Los Angeles Police Detective James Carter and Chinese Chief Inspector Lee, in “Rush Hour 2,” they had dusted off another bunch of bad guys and were headed to New York...

Rush Hour 3

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Aug.07] :. Disjointed and hyperbolic, the film's many chases and showdowns pit Carter and Lee against an array of forces -- again.

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.

A Film Trilogy by Ingmar Bergman (1961-1963)

by Michael S. Smith

[17.Nov.03] :. All three films are concerned with ideas, states of being, and subjective experience.

Intacto (2001)

by Nicholas Schager

[13.Dec.02] :. Max von Sydow paints an empathetic portrait of the terrible consequences of misused power.

Minority Report (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Jun.02] :. Based on a story published by Philip K. Dick in 1956, 'Minority Report' is science-fiction of the sort that Dick preferred to write -- set in the future, but all wrapped up in concerns that are immediately relevant to the present moment (that the same concerns were relevant back in 1956 is not a little unnerving, as will become clear).

Snow Falling on Cedars (1999)

by Renee Scolaro Rathke

Snow falling on cedars. The image is a beautiful one and director Scott Hicks and director of photography Robert Richardson certainly work it in their new film, which offers repeated tableaux of the...

The Exorcist: The Version You’ve Never Seen (1973/2000)

by John G. Nettles

The Exorcist: The Version You've Never Seen is really The Version That We Would Never Have Let You See If We Didn't Need New Material For DVD.