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Film DVD Review

Eagle Eye

by Dan Heaton

[14.Jan.09] :. This might pretend to criticize our increasing reliance on technology, but it’s really just the setting for a big dumb movie.

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The Movie Masochist: This movie thinks you’re dumb

by James Franklin [McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)]

[2.Oct.08] :. The 1960s and 1970s were the heyday of political thrillers. In these movies the people who ran the U.S. government were every bit as shady as you feared, and they were always up to something bad....

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Short Ends and Leader

IMAX makes this ‘Eagle’ Soar

by Bill Gibron

[28.Sep.08] :. Beware of Big Brother…blah, blah, blah. You can’t pick up a publication nowadays, or listen to any number of broadcast pundits, and not hear about how the Bush Administration is violating...

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Film Review

Eagle Eye

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Sep.08] :. Where's Jamie Foxx when you need him?

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The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview Feature

Talk, Talk, Talk: September 2008

by Bill Gibron

[9.Sep.08] :. From wars both past and present to a number of nail-biting thrillers, September is sizing up as a potentially profitable one.

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Film Review

Made of Honor

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.May.08] :. If she lived in another movie, you'd almost feel sorry for Hannah (Michelle Monaghan). But she's trapped in the execrable Made of Honor, which insists that she behave nearly as inanely as her two suitors.

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The Return of the Popcorn Circus: May 2008

by Bill Gibron

[28.Apr.08] :. In the first act of this four-part production, Tinsel Town decides to do some unbelievable front loading. Will there be room for independent offerings, or former HBO carnal comedy divas? Who knows? Without a doubt, it's an interesting way to start the season.

 

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.

 

Super Duper Bad: The Worst Films of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[11.Jan.08] :. From Good Luck Chuck to Julie Taymor's ill-advised Beatlesque '60s tribute Across the Universe, PopMatters presents the dreck 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.

 

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.

 

Ben Affleck directs new movie rather than stars in it

by Rene Rodriguez [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[19.Oct.07] :. When Ben Affleck took the recommendation of several friends and read Dennis Lehane’s novel “Gone Baby Gone,” he immediately started thinking about adapting it into a film. He just...

 

The up-and-coming Affleck: younger brother Casey, in 2 new films

by Steven Rea [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[19.Oct.07] :. TORONTO—Don’t underestimate Casey Affleck, the reedy-voiced, baby-faced actor, who is younger brother to Ben. Like the character he plays in “Gone Baby Gone”—the...

 

Gone Baby Gone

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Oct.07] :. Part noir, part moralizing, and part urban-malaisey, the movie offers an assembly of seedy sorts who make Patrick's quest look increasingly hopeless but also ineffably gallant.

 

The Hearbreak Kid (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Oct.07] :. Blond and dim, Lila seems the perfect match, or rather, the clunky point of departure for the disaster that will be Eddie's honeymoon.

 

Time Encapsulating: The Best DVDs of 2006

by PopMatters Staff

[10.Jan.07] :. From solid single issues to amazingly complete film and television compilations, the works highlighted here argue for DVD's continued importance.

 

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (2005)

by Jesse Hassenger

[2.Dec.05] :. It's a surprise that Shane Black's Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang works as well as it does.