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TV DVD Review

Swingtown: The First Season

by Amaya Rivera

[13.Jan.09] :. The show devolves into a bunch of cheating and bed hopping more reminiscent of a daytime soap than a period drama.

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TV Review

Swingtown

by Michael Abernethy

[5.Jun.08] :. Two contrasting celebrations of Independence Day represent the two worlds of Swingtown, CBS' new primetime soap opera.

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PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2006 Feature

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.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2006

 

Film Review

The Wicker Man (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[1.Sep.06] :. "Every time I turn my head," sputters Edward, "there's something that doesn't make any sense." Exactly.

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TV DVD Review

Deadwood: The Complete Second Season

by Sean O'Neal

[10.Jul.06] :. For those who have taken the time to appreciate its oily charms, the subtle shifts in dynamics between the show's unreliable heroes and villains, and its unparalleled ensemble of character actors, Deadwood is one of the most arresting and original series in TV history.

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TV DVD Review

Deadwood - The Complete Second Season

by Sean O'Neal

[22.May.06] :. For those who have taken the time to appreciate its oily charms, the subtle shifts in dynamics between the show's unreliable heroes and villains, and its unparalleled ensemble of character actors, Deadwood is one of the most arresting and original series in TV history.

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Deadwood

by Lesley Smith

[21.Mar.05] :. Deadwood is possibly the most coruscating indictment of American capitalism ever aired in primetime.

 

Deadwood

by Elena Razlogova

[12.Apr.04] :. Wily and self-possessed, Sol Star is an unusual combination of a Lower East Side peddler and Gary Cooper in High Noon.

 

Max (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.Feb.03] :. Max is less concerned with making Hitler sympathetic, or even very specific, than it is in using him to illustrate a series of ideas.

 

Waking the Dead (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Waking the Dead opens with a television image. In 1974, young Fielding Pierce (Billy Crudup) is watching the news, when he sees that his girlfriend Sarah (Jennifer Connelly) has been killed in a car bomb explosion (reportedly engineered by 'terrorists,' that all-purpose contemporary cultural monster).

 

Waking the Dead (2000)

by P. Nelson Reinsch

Though some viewers might not compare producer-director Keith Gordon to John Huston as adaptors of literature to film, Gordon makes films which are regularly praised for their 'faithful' transfer of literary texts.

 

Sunshine (1999)

by Lucas Hilderbrand

The theme of assimilation as survival strategy has certainly been covered in movies before, from young Jew Salomon Perel joining the Nazi youth in Europa Europa to Tai’s makeover from...

 

The Five Senses (1999)

by Cynthia Fuchs

It's about the ways that your senses are deluded and depressed by daily emotional beat-downs, the kinds of events that are so routine, they hardly register, except by their long-term effects.

 

The Center of the World (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

These lost souls meet when he visits the conspicuously named Pandora's Box, the club where she's employed, and he's so taken by her (lap dance) that he asks her to come to Vegas with him for three days: no strings and lots of money.