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Film Review

Alien Trespass

by Todd R. Ramlow

[3.Apr.09] :. Alien Trespass won't let our knowledge of the stereotypes it incorporates do the work and make the critique.

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

OMG - The 20 Worst Films of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[15.Jan.09] :. There's bad, and then there's 2008 level bad. You know this list is looking down into a deep dark bottomless pit of cinematic despair when Mike Myers' shameful Love Guru didn't even make the Top 20!

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

 

Film DVD Review

Walk the Line

by Mike Schiller

[12.May.08] :. There are so many positive aspects to this film that the empty feeling left when the it ends is utterly shocking.

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

Accepting the Blame: The Top Guilty Pleasures of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[17.Jan.08] :. PopMatters proffers its collection of 2007's most notable defective faves. And it's okay to laugh. After all, we'd probably do the same to you and your uncomfortable fixations as well.

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

 

TV Review

The Unit

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.Nov.07] :. The Unit is not about deserving. It's about the veneer of moral order.

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PopMatters Picks: The Best of TV on DVD Feature

Part 2 - Outsider Influences

by PopMatters Staff

[9.Oct.07] :. TV was at a standstill. On one side -- the status quo. On the other -- the innovators from outside the mainstream. Guess who ended up winning the 'classics’ argument?

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Balls of Fury

by Bill Gibron

[31.Aug.07] :. What really gives the cinematic pallet a high-quality cleansing is a ripe old fashioned dose of certifiable stupid.

 
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TV Review

The Unit

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.May.07] :. The Unit doesn't include you in the parameters of the performance. You have to figure yourself who's lying to whom and when it matters.

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The Unit

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Apr.07] :. This is what The Unit gets right: while the men's violence can fix any given crisis, domestic effects are perpetual.

 

Bridge to Terabithia (2007)

by Daynah Burnett

[21.Feb.07] :. Where other "kids' films" might instruct or condescend, Bridge to Terabithia treats children like what they will eventually become: grown-ups.

 
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TV Review

The Unit

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Oct.06] :. This is always the question in The Unit and the Unit: who knows? Even those who do know can't admit it.

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The Unit

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Mar.06] :. It's a show about the Army's clandestine counter-terrorist unit, called The Unit and created by David Mamet. What more do you need to know?

 

Walk the Line (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Nov.05] :. John R. Cash (Joaquin Phoenix) is a hard-drinking, drug-abusing, soul-searching, all-black-wearing, June-Carter-loving man.

 

Supercross: The Movie (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Aug.05] :. The brothers race against a spectacular California backdrop, with the sort of ridiculous fearlessness that afflicts boys in sports action movies.

 

Ladder 49 (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Mar.05] :. As he watches his firefighters guys bond and scuffle, director Jay Russell explains that he began the project with some qualms because of 'all the emotion involved with 9/11.'"

 

Ladder 49 (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[1.Oct.04] :. Sentimental and surprisingly uncomplicated, Ladder 49 seems a disservice to the very folks it wants to extol.

 

The X-Files: The Complete Eighth Season

by Jesse Hassenger

[26.Jan.04] :. When a television series grows in depth and complexity, more often than not, there's no going back.

 

The X-Files

by Sabadino Parker

[15.May.02] :. The X-Files has long been but a pale reflection of the show it once was.

 

The X-Files

by Martha Kuhlman

After eight years of squishy monsters, labyrinthine conspiracies, and creepy adventures in inner and outer space, the most popular television sci-fi series in recent memory (shut up, trekkies) resorts to the obvious Christian imagery.

 

The X-Files

by Tracy McLoone

Scully took no grief from Mulder; she questioned him, disagreed with him, and stood up to him. With Doggett, however, there is a more traditional he/she split.

 

Spy Kids (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

'Spy Kids' is all fun, sometimes obnoxious, and incessantly cheerful -- having your parents kidnapped is a minor inconvenience, leading to the chance to ride in a submarine that looks like a blowfish. How neat is that!"

 

Spy Kids (2001)

by Tracy McLoone

In the Disney universe, it's normal to be special, and that's exactly the case with the Cortez family, kids and parents alike.