Tuesday, February 26 2008
Right at Your Door
Who is the one that's really trapped in this situation? Is Lexi locked out of the house, or is Brad locked in it?
Friday, August 24 2007
Right at Your Door
You might think of Right at Your Door as a more immediate Signs or a less jerry-rigged Bug.
Thursday, January 11 2007
The Pay Off: The Best Film of 2006
For many of the movies on PopMatters' 2006 list of the year's best films, it is clear that a heavy personal and professional stake was riding on the final product.
Wednesday, January 10 2007
Time Encapsulating: The Best DVDs of 2006
From solid single issues to amazingly complete film and television compilations, the works highlighted here argue for DVD's continued importance.
Thursday, July 20 2006
Dazed and Confused: Criterion Collection (1993)
Criterion's DVD appreciates the film itself, without trying too hard to analyze or understand it, thank god.
Thursday, July 6 2006
A Scanner Darkly (2006)
Simultaneously strange and familiar, not himself, Bob lives inside an ooky, unsolvable world that mirrors our own ongoing fears, of surveillance, loss, and forgetting.
A Scanner Darkly (2006)
The suits make for images so fascinating they feel nearly "addictive," appropriate given that the film is about (among other things), viewing, reality, and addiction.
Monday, February 28 2005
CSI Miami: Season Two
CSI Miami celebrates wars on terror, drugs, and crime that disproportionately affect communities of color.
Tuesday, July 6 2004
CSI Miami: The Complete First Season
CSI Miami presents cases so clinically that it can introduce issues as scandalous as anything on reality TV without appearing exploitative.
