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Why Michael Cera appears to be everywhere onscreen

by Christopher Borrelli [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[14.May.09] :. What is the meaning of Michael Cera? For as long as there have been movies, the leading man has not been Michael Cera. The leading man has fit a narrow profile — square jaw, a thick wave of...

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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

 

The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview Feature

Summer of Same: June 2009

by Bill Gibron

[28.Apr.09] :. This month's "original" fare offers a take on a Sid and Marty Krofft classic, more battling seizure robots, and the retaking of '70s subway thriller. Everything old is new again.

The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview

 

Film DVD Review

Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist

by Jesse Hassenger

[3.Feb.09] :. A little cute, sure, but strikingly real -- or at least faked with a lot of heart.

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Film Review

Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist

by Brendon Bouzard

[3.Oct.08] :. At its heart, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist is a fairy tale, a collective delusion about the here and now.

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The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview Feature

Talk, Talk, Talk: December 2008

by Bill Gibron

[12.Sep.08] :. Just like the end of an inspiring speech that may or may not succeed in making its point, these final four weeks before 2009 tend to define or defeat the entire awards season purpose.

The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview

 

Talk, Talk, Talk: October 2008

by Bill Gibron

[10.Sep.08] :. What studio suit thought this was a good idea? With four months to schedule your high priced efforts, you instead unload almost 30 overpriced pictures on an unsuspecting movie audience.

 

Juno

by Jarrett Berman

[14.Apr.08] :. Teens have their precious catchphrases and secret languages, but they're nervous, fumbling creatures. They don’t come equipped with Chaucer-like witticisms, or razor-sharp retorts.

 

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.

 

‘Juno’ grows and grows

by Robert W. Butler [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[17.Jan.08] :. For a low-budget movie with no major names in its cast, “Juno” has become a force to be reckoned with. Last weekend the indie comedy about a pregnant teen took third place at the box...

 

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.

 

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.

 

Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Female

by PopMatters Staff

[9.Jan.08] :. From the most sweetly nuanced performance of Jennifer Jason Leigh's career to Cate Blanchett's revelatory portrayal of Bob Dylan in I'm Not There, the women of 2007 were stellar.

 

Oh, baby! 2007 gave birth to a brood of pregnancy comedies

by Chris Vognar [The Dallas Morning News (MCT)]

[20.Dec.07] :. In “Juno,” the new, life-affirming teen pregnancy comedy, our spunky 16-year-old heroine is aghast to learn she’s been knocked up. “I was thinking I’d just nip it in the...

 

Diablo Cody, from stripper to The Screenwriter

by Colin Covert [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)]

[10.Dec.07] :. Diablo Cody’s Cinderella moment had arrived. Her film “Juno” was less than four hours from its Hollywood premiere. As the Centerpiece Gala presentation of the annual American Film...

 

Juno

by Daynah Burnett

[5.Dec.07] :. A movie about a 16-year-old girl's unplanned pregnancy, Juno manages to avoid any significant emotional depths, despite its plainly complex subject.

 

It Felt Fluid and Rhythmic: An Interview with Diablo Cody and Ellen Page

by Tricia Olszewski

[5.Dec.07] :. The story in Juno is unpredictable and touching. But Cody's dialogue is exceptional, a flurry of hip, witty words that snap and dissipate before you can accuse them of being too stylized.

 

Part 5 - Beyond the Envelope

by PopMatters Staff

[12.Oct.07] :. The format forced the issue among cult and commercial products. And TV on DVD highlighted the cream of the creative, forward thinking crop.

 

Seth Rogen turns his adolescence into ‘Superbad’

by Barry Koltnow [The Orange County Register (MCT)]

[20.Aug.07] :. LOS ANGELES—Earlier this summer, when writer-producer Judd Apatow was promoting his new comedy “Knocked Up,” he was asked by a skeptical reporter if he truly believed that the...

 

Superbad

by Bill Gibron

[18.Aug.07] :. Though it seems like a thoroughly modern experience, Superbad does have a delicious throwback mentality, a sense of humiliating history reminiscent of those days in back of the classroom, trading newly learned dirty jokes with your fellow classmates.

 

Superbad

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Aug.07] :. The focus remains unchanged: scared, eager boys make their clumsy ways toward a semblance of self-awareness.

 

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.

 

Net-Works: The Best TV of 2006

by PopMatters Staff

[10.Jan.07] :. You won't have to look far along your television dial to discover the Top TV picks from PopMatters staff. From 20 upward, each entry represents the boob tube at its best.

 
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Arrested Development: Season 3

by Sean O'Neal

[11.Sep.06] :. As an epitaph, there can be none more fitting than the fact that Arrested Development never stooped to conquer. Its influence will be felt for generations to come.

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Arrested Development

by Amanda Ann Klein

[21.Feb.06] :. Arrested Development went down uncompromised, with guns a-blazing and showing no remorse over its own potential demise.

 

Arrested Development: Season Two

by Stephen Kelly

[15.Nov.05] :. Twenty-two minutes of a single episode of Arrested Development is still funnier than an entire night of Must-See TV.

 

Arrested Development

by Jesse Hassenger

[2.May.05] :. Arrested Development is too dense, too smart, too strange. These are all ways of saying that it's too good.

 

Arrested Development: Season One

by John G. Nettles

[24.Nov.04] :. Arrested Development is Bad Behavior writ large, and it is the most consistently funny half-hour to grace the Idiot Box in a long time.

 

Arrested Development

by Stephen Kelly

[10.Nov.03] :. That Arrested Development mines its laughs by taking potshots at the filthy rich makes it so much more delicious.