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

Gone and Not Forgotten: The PopMatters DVD Wish List

by Bill Gibron

[24.Jan.08] :. A lot of good movies are still missing from DVD. Here is a list of 25 that PopMatters feels have been unceremoniously left to simply fade away.

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

 

Film DVD Review

Next

by Bill Gibron

[5.Oct.07] :. Suspense and that familiar adrenaline rush come with creativity, not clock crunching. Next fails to fully understand this, and ends up paying for it in the end.

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PopMatters Picks: The 50 DVDs Every Film Fan Should Own Feature

Part 4: Challenging Convention

by PopMatters Staff

[21.Jun.07] :. As cinema went completely commercial, abandoning art for artifice, true aesthetic acumen was hard to come by. Luckily, for the movies included herein, it was their difference, as well as their diversity, that helped them stand out from the rest of the high concept hackwork.

PopMatters Picks: The 50 DVDs Every Film Fan Should Own

 

Film Review

Next (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[27.Apr.07] :. The film doesn’t try to explain or rationalize its essential trick, but drops you rather perfunctorily into Cris' multiple dilemmas.

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Film DVD Review

Big Trouble (1986)

by Chris Robé

[18.Aug.03] :. Flimsy and frustrating, Big Trouble suggests that Cassavetes finally gave up on reality.

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Film Review

Undisputed (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Aug.02] :. Masculinity, integrity, brutality: Walter Hill's usual themes.

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Made (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

To aid him on his travels, Bobby (Jon Favreau) takes Ricky, his childhood friend, boxing partner (they're introduced fighting each other in some cheap venue, for piddling money), and notorious fuck-up. Ricky is played by the affable (when not bar-brawling) Vince Vaughn, who also produced 'Made', and who, in 1996, starred with Favreau in 'Swingers', the film that made them both bankable properties.

 

Corky Romano (2001)

by Kevin Devine

'Corky Romano' is a limp, set 'em up and knock 'em down barrage of hijinx and horseshit that proves definitively that Chris Kattan's shtick is barely big enough to carry a 90-second trailer, let alone a 90-minute movie.