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The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview Feature

Summer of Same: July 2009

by Bill Gibron

[29.Apr.09] :. In a rare attempt at novelty, July jets along with only Harry Potter and the Ice Age crew sampling continuing series spoils. The rest provide unknown pleasures.

The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview

 

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999 Feature

Part 2: The Virgin Suicides to The Blair Witch Project (May - August 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[24.Mar.09] :. In Part Two of our look at the most memorable films of 1999, we experience music, foul-mouthed mayhem, and a late, great auteur's final cinematic statement.

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

 

Short Ends and Leader

Role Models: Unrated (2008)

by Bill Gibron

[7.Mar.09] :. Ever since a certain Mr. Apatow introduced us to a middle aged man child with limited sexual experience, the motion picture comedy has been flooded with what could best be described as...

Short Ends and Leader

 

Mixed Media

Wainy Days Are Here Again (video)

by Thomas Britt

[5.Mar.09] :. David Wain—the rarely disputed king of absurd comedy—is having a busy month. According to his (always-entertaining) blog, he’s currently shooting new episodes of his series Wainy...

Mixed Media

 

Short Ends and Leader

Role Models

by Bill Gibron

[26.Nov.08] :. Ever since a certain Mr. Apatow introduced us to a middle aged man child with limited sexual experience, the motion picture comedy has been flooded with what could best be described as...

Short Ends and Leader

 

Film Review

Role Models

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Nov.08] :. Role Models invites you to celebrate "fantasy world where anything is possible", at least if you're a boy in need of approval.

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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 Promotion (2008)

by Bill Gibron

[31.Aug.08] :. Someone once said that all men live lives of quiet desperation. For those in middle management, said anxiety can be anything but silent. It’s never the big picture issues - the purpose of their...

 

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.

 

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.

 

The Dukes of Hazzard (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Aug.05] :. A series of rowdy antics instead of a sustained storyline, The Dukes of Hazzard is all about the car.

 

The Rundown (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[25.Sep.03] :. The Rock doesn't want to hurt 'em, but he just can't help it.

 

Bulletproof Monk (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Sep.03] :. 'The big challenge we faced in the beginning is that, in the comic book, the Bulletproof Monk really isn't in the comic.'"

 

American Wedding (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[1.Aug.03] :. Stifler's insufferable self-love is his special gift, of course, and what viewers love most about him.

 

Bulletproof Monk (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Apr.03] :. Has a couple of ideas rattling around in its head, ideas that are -- or could be -- strangely relevant.

 

Road Trip (2000)

by Aaron Lecklider

Most of the humor in Road Trip depends upon the audience identifying with the characters' sexual anxiety.

 

Final Destination (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Everything about Final Destination probably looks demented, if not downright silly. If you've seen the trailers playing for a couple of weeks now on youth-oriented TV, you will have seen the lame plot (a kid keeps his friends off a plane flight doomed to explode), ooky wind and thunder effects, the sweaty-faced and way too pale teens, and most effectively, Tony Todd's ominous rasp, 'You can't cheat death!'"

 

Evolution (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

It feels like a chain industry has bought up a neighborhood institution. It's inevitable, but it is also, like the mall that looms so prominently in Evolution's imaginative realm, routine and uninspired.

 

Evolution (2001)

by Tobias Peterson

For a film that concerns itself with the increasing complexity of hyper-evolutionary organisms, 'Evolution' is decidedly simplistic and one-dimensional.

 

Dude, Where’s My Car? (2000)

by Susan Glen

It comes down to this: it's pretty pathetic when you go to the $5 matinee and want $4 back at the end. And it's downright shameful when you want back 'all' $5, 'plus' popcorn money, 'plus' a few more bucks for the intentional infliction of emotional distress.