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PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008 Feature

OMG - The 20 Worst Films of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[15.Jan.09] :. There's bad, and then there's 2008 level bad. You know this list is looking down into a deep dark bottomless pit of cinematic despair when Mike Myers' shameful Love Guru didn't even make the Top 20!

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008

 

Column: The Screener

Cut to the Whatever

by Chris Barsanti

[21.Nov.08] :. Marc Forster's Quantum of Solace slices away nearly every element of the old Bond, and leaves nothing in its place.

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Film Review

Quantum of Solace

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Nov.08] :. Bond (Daniel Craig) seems done in by the notion that M is indeed his maternal superior, and so he must please her, or at least pretend that he's playing by rules that he and she and all the rest of us know he disrespects from jump.

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Short Ends and Leader

Bonding

by Bill Gibron

[13.Nov.08] :. He’s that old friend we hardly recognize anymore, that middle aged idol that’s, apparently, going through a bit of a creative and cultural crisis. Granted, the secret agent is...

Short Ends and Leader

 

The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview Feature

Talk, Talk, Talk: November 2008

by Bill Gibron

[11.Sep.08] :. Like the sainted sigh of relief that comes after another shriek-filled All Hallow's Eve, November usually means the start of the 'nominate me' process for the proposed prestige pictures of 2008.

The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview

 

Film DVD Review

Hitman

by Jesse Hassenger

[19.Mar.08] :. Too dry for teenagers, and not sophisticated enough for anyone who has ever seen an espionage movie better than Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever.

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Timothy Olyphant becomes a ‘Hitman’

by Marijke Rowland [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[30.Nov.07] :. When it comes to your first starring action vehicle, you never think it will happen to you bald in Bulgaria. But Timothy Olyphant’s steady rise through Hollywood has hit the big time thanks to...

 

Hitman

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Nov.07] :. Hitman isn't interested in complex emotions or motivations. Rather, it maintains a pretty much relentless focus on the predictable poetry of violence.