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The Golden Boys

by Renee Scolaro Mora

[17.Apr.09] :. This tale of three codgery sea captains looking for a wife is not all that romantic, or especially comic.

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PopMatters Picks: The Best of TV on DVD Feature

Part 3 - The New Networks

by PopMatters Staff

[10.Oct.07] :. It would never work... no one challenged the reigning broadcast junta and survived. No surprise then that the upstarts snuck in and changed the face of TV forever.

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Not Just the Best of the Larry Sanders Show

by Marisa Carroll

[3.Aug.07] :. One of the most innovative series of the ‘90s finally arrives on DVD, with the set produced by none other than star and creator Garry Shandling…

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Marie Antoinette (2006)

by Jake Meaney

[19.Apr.07] :. Marie Antoinette's veneer is so impregnably varnished, so buffed to such an imposing sheen, that any attempt at critical ingress either bounces off of or slides down its glossy façade.

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Marie Antoinette (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Oct.06] :. A girl made queen by the peculiar forces of 18th-century statecraft, Marie is by turns amused, alarmed, and pissed off, mercurial and imperious as only a teenager can be.

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The Sisters (2005)

by Courtney Young

[7.Aug.06] :. Hope, delayed. A painful, poignant adaptation of everyday life.

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RoboCop Trilogy (1987/1990/1993)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Aug.04] :. Strikingly, RoboCop's political insights are as timely today as on its release in 1987.

 

Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Jun.04] :. The team is scrappy and determined, willing to endure repeated -- and I mean repeated -- batterings with wrenches and balls.

 

Men In Black II (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Jul.02] :. What the sequel does make abundantly clear is that the apparently accidental harmonies of the first can -- indeed must -- be turned into calculation.

 

Wonder Boys (2000)

by Jonathan Beller

Hey there. If you find yourself pushing on past middle age and wondering why all your potential has only gotten you just where you are and not one iota farther, then Curtis Hanson's new film Wonder Boys may be your sunset tonic.

 

Wonder Boys (2000)

by Todd R. Ramlow

Curtis Hanson's Wonder Boys is very much concerned with the boys its title declares (or, rather, with a certain sort of boyish behavior). More to the point, it actually seems to wonder, as we do and as the characters do, what is to be done with them.

 

Freddy Got Fingered (2001)

by Todd R. Ramlow

'Freddy Got Fingered' lowers the bar, and not just a little bit, for what has been popularly passing as 'comedy' in recent days.