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Prison Break: An Epitaph

by Chris Conaton

[18.May.09] :. Prison Break wrapped up its fourth and final season on Friday. Here's what happened for those of you who tuned out long ago from one of television's most entertaining (and definitely its most ridiculous) action shows.

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Film DVD Review

Transporter 3

by Jake Meaney

[15.Apr.09] :. There’s a certain purity of movement and lunacy at work here, where context ceases to matter, and the action becomes ecstatic and transcendent.

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

As Charged - Top 10 TV Guilty Pleasures of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[12.Jan.09] :. If television is indeed a vast cultural and artistic wasteland, then the 10 examples of culpable amusement selected by our staff must represent something significant -- or perhaps we're just way too addicted to the old boob tube.

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

 

Film Review

Transporter 3

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Nov.08] :. As Frank discovers what's at stake and unravels who wants what, he devises first to get the job done and then, because he actually falls for his wet noodle of a passenger, to save her.

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TV DVD Review

Prison Break: Season 3

by Jake Meaney

[22.Sep.08] :. The great thing about watching this show on DVD, rather than on TV, is that it doesn’t allow you a chance to actually sit and think about it.

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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

 

Prison Break

by Cynthia Fuchs

[1.Sep.08] :. Prison Break has never lacked for the burly grrr factor.

 

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.

 

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.

 

Prison Break

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Sep.06] :. Much as the Scofields despise the abject corruption that got them into this fix, they plainly feel less affinity for shadows than full-on righteousness. They believe they can get even.

 

Prison Break

by Mary Colgan

[3.Apr.06] :. The broody-eyed brothers Linc and Michael exemplify standards of masculine stoicism and bravery.

 

Prison Break

by Samantha Bornemann

[12.Sep.05] :. The good and bad guys in Prison Break might cry, fight, screw, and bleed, but they still look like cardboard to me.

 

Species III (2004)

by Marco Lanzagorta

[17.Jan.05] :. Following the law of diminishing returns, the straight-to-video Species III is the least effective entry in the trilogy.

 

Love & Sex (2000)

by Susan Glen

It's somewhat refreshing to watch a male character exhibit an immature sexual insecurity in the face of a more experienced female lover, and even more refreshing -- if not downright liberating -- to watch that female character refuse to apologize for her sexual appetites.