Articles tagged "sarah michelle gellar"

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

Film Review

Southland Tales

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Nov.07] :. The very incoherence of Southland Tales is something like an argument, its many pieces and pronouncements a deconstructive challenge to world order.

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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.

PopMatters Picks: The Best of TV on DVD

News

Cowabunga! ‘TMNT’ rules

by David Hinckley [New York Daily News (MCT)]

[26.Mar.07] :. All it took to conquer 300 indomitable Spartan warriors was four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. “TMNT,” the animated green guys’ return to the big screen after 14 years in...

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Film Review

TMNT (2007)

by Daynah Burnett

[23.Mar.07] :. The CGI allows the Turtles to have facial expressions, though here these mostly range from angsty to angstier.

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Film DVD Review

The Grudge 2 (2006)

by Matthew Stern

[22.Feb.07] :. Shimizu pulls off the “this ghost is scary just because it’s looking at you” trick so effectively that it stays embedded in your mind.

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The Return (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Nov.06] :. Joanna's restlessness is pathological and symptomatic. "Sometimes," she says, "I think that if I keep moving forward, nothing bad will happen to me."

The Grudge 2 (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Oct.06] :. Rethinking the very concepts of remake, sequel, and translation, The Grudge 2 is not a regular horror movie, or even a regular J-horror movie.

The Grudge: Special Edition (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Feb.05] :. Precisely composed frames of urban and ancient architecture give way to Karen's face, deftly shadowed and shot from low angles, as Karen struggles to decipher the symbols that set her course.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Complete Seventh Season

by Mary Colgan

[13.Dec.04] :. Joss Whedon says, 'We sort of worship at the same altar. Me and my staff are the biggest Buffy nerds alive.'

The Grudge (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Oct.04] :. Karen's quintessential 'American' identity -- blond, do-gooding, intrepid -- makes her sense of dislocation especially acute.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Complete Sixth Season

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.Jul.04] :. Buffy‘s sixth season is about death and resurrection, specifically, how to survive them. As the previous season ended with the death of Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar), the first task for...

Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Mar.04] :. In the sequel no one needs to see, the Scooby Gang grapples with the stress of stardom.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Complete Fourth Season

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Jun.03] :. That is, the season that many fans have called out as disjointed and erratic, maddening and disappointing. To a point, the complaint is justified, as Joss Whedon and company tend to concede. But only to a point.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Lord of the Nerds

by Jesse Hassenger

[19.May.03] :. Buffy is often mentioned specifically as a "female empowerment" show, but one of its most inviting aspects is the way its cast has always been uncommonly split between guys and girls.

Harvard Man (2001)

by Leah Hochbaum

[22.Aug.02] :. Harvard Man's refusal to pass judgment on characters' drug use is troubling.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

by Todd R. Ramlow

[18.Jun.02] :. As to the rejection of my understanding of the connection between lesbianism and witchcraft on 'Buffy', I have never said that BVS's creator or writers made a conscious (and consciously homophobic) decision to directly cast lesbianism as social pathology and physical addiction.

Scooby Doo (2002)

by Todd R. Ramlow

[13.Jun.02] :. The main problem here is the script, or the lack thereof.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

by Andrew Gilstrap

[10.Jun.02] :. To think of Willow and Tara only in terms of their lesbianism is to do a disservice to lovers who were fully realized, regardless of their gender or orientation.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

by Todd R. Ramlow

[4.Jun.02] :. This was a tragic ending to one of prime-time television's most engaging love stories. More disturbing, as well as more socially and politically troublesome, however, is that Tara's death completes what has become a rather homophobic and pathological representation of lesbian desires and relationships over the course of the past season.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Scooby Love

by Michael Abernethy

But the Scoobies have expanded the tv series, to include character study and analysis of the bonds of humankind.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Angel

by John G. Nettles

Given Buffy's track record for playing with conventions, there may be hope for Dawn Summers on the horizon, but as of now she is definitely the Scrappy-Doo of the Scooby Gang.