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Easy Rider 40th Anniversary

by Adele Melander-Dayton

[23.Nov.09] :. This 40-year-old classic still has its thrills -- enough to make you wish that you, too, had a bike with a teardrop gas tank emblazoned with the American flag.

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Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999 Feature

Part 3: The Sixth Sense to Fight Club (August - October 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[25.Mar.09] :. Films that have left a lasting impression on their creators (M. Night Shyamalan, Sam Mendes, David Fincher) make up the majority of Part Three of our Films of 1999 overview.

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

 

Film DVD Review

3:10 to Yuma

by Jarrett Berman

[4.Feb.08] :. As a genre piece, Mangold’s remake satisfies the requisite clichés (sweeping desert vistas, corseted women, ample gunplay), but not much else.

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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

 

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The talents behind ‘3:10 to Yuma’ hope the Western will ride again

by Dixie Reid [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[7.Sep.07] :. SAN FRANCISCO—Meanwhile, back at the hotel ... After a photo shoot staged at Marin County, Calif., horse stables, James Mangold and Peter Fonda are back at the hotel. Like gunfighters at high...

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Film Review

3:10 to Yuma

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Sep.07] :. All the men in this movie think they're doing the right thing, no matter how unhinged their actions may look.

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Ghost Rider (2007)

by Marc Calderaro

[25.Jun.07] :. This script takes generic archetypes and applies them to specific situations only by the cheapest of character-development techniques.

 

Ghost Rider (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Feb.07] :. Now, not only is the Ghost Rider beleaguered by Mephistopheles' incessant demands, but also by this big-screen ignominy.

 

The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things (2006)

by Christian Martius

[7.Apr.06] :. Based on the 'autobiographical' work of J.T. Leroy, The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things announces itself as 'unreliable'.

 

Lilith (1964)

by Robert Horning

[30.Aug.04] :. It's tempting to read this mental-institution drama as some kind of political allegory.