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

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.

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

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

Film DVD Review

The Bourne Ultimatum

by Boyd Williamson

[7.Jan.08] :. The Bourne Ultimatum is one of the most enjoyable documents of cultural paranoia and political alienation you’ll see this year.

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Lights, camera, ACTION: Matt Damon’s back as Bourne

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

[5.Aug.07] :. BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Lunch at the legendary Polo Lounge in Beverly Hills has to end precisely at 1 p.m. because Matt Damon has a date. His 13-month-old daughter Isabella is asleep in an upstairs...

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The Bourne Ultimatum

by Bill Gibron

[4.Aug.07] :. The Bourne Ultimatum lives and dies by its car chases and fisticuffs, and it has to be said that some of the best examples in the genre exist in this electrifying film.

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The Bourne Ultimatum

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Aug.07] :. Bourne is the logical product of the secret CIA program that made him, the dark routes by which a desire for surveillance and security gives way to brutal dominion and extreme measures.

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‘Bad Boys’ influenced the British makers of ‘Hot Fuzz’

by Joshua Klein [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[28.Jul.07] :. The British comedy “Hot Fuzz,” out this week on DVD, plays like a compendium of every action movie and cop thriller cliche ever made. The brilliance of creators Simon Pegg and Edgar...

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.

Hot Fuzz (2007)

by Daynah Burnett

[24.Apr.07] :. Hot Fuzz is all about the guys. And who needs girls when you have guns?

‘Hot Fuzz’: Filmakers approve the use of deadly farce

by Phoebe Flowers [South Florida Sun-Sentinel]

[20.Apr.07] :. "The one word that we bristle at is 'spoof.'"

‘Hot Fuzz’: An Over-the-top Brit-riff

by Roger Moore [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)]

[20.Apr.07] :. Simon Pegg is the silliest David Caruso since the real one in Hot Fuzz, an over-the-top Brit-riff on cop movies, cop shows and the CSI age we live in. All that’s missing are the...

Taking aim at cop movies with ‘Hot Fuzz’

by Jeff Strickler [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)]

[19.Apr.07] :. Most filmmakers hate the city-a-day promotion tours that inevitably end up producing a lot more sitting around—in airports, airplanes, taxis, hotel rooms and restaurants—than promoting....

The PopMatters ‘Short Ends & Leader’ Spring Film Preview

by Bill Gibron

[2.Mar.07] :. In order to separate the worthy from the worthless, PopMatters' "Short Ends & Leader" editor is highlighting 10 new films he's looking forward to this spring.

Stoned (2005)

by Dan MacIntosh

[24.Mar.06] :. Brian Jones appears to be diligently practicing infidelity and abusing alcohol throughout.

My Summer of Love (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Jun.05] :. Their romance seems alternately fluid and jaunty, as they explore one another and their own feelings.

Cinderella Man

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Jun.05] :. Whether sad, frustrated, or even thinking about losing his temper, Jim is never less than stalwart.

In America (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.May.04] :. The semi-autobiographical tale of director Jim Sheridan considers the many complicated ways that 'America' works as idea and experience, the ways it engulfs, consumes, and produces its subjects.