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The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview Feature

Summer of Same: May 2009

by Bill Gibron

[27.Apr.09] :. May's titles include the fourth films in two aging franchises, more Pixar perfection, and the reboot of a TV series from 40 years ago. And they say there are no new ideas.

The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview

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

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Mamma Mia!

by Barbara Herman

[12.Jan.09] :. The kind of movie whose campiness you just have to give into if you want to enjoy it -- and then you'll have a blast.

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Mamma Mia!: 2-Disc Special Edition

by Bill Gibron

[14.Dec.08] :. Sometimes, the cinema can be a lot like oil and water. Certain facets of a film can struggle to stay together, eventually separating like the fabled proverbial liquids. While it’s possible to...

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Column: Suffragette City

Katrin Cartlidge: The Working Actress

by Matt Mazur

[29.Aug.08] :. Whether it was through silence, grotesquerie, fury or intelligence (or, at times, lack of intelligence), Cartlidge was not afraid to upturn the dark corners of the women she portrayed.

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Mamma Mia!

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Jul.08] :. Meryl Streep scampers and writhes with something like abandon in her tomboyish overalls, her glowing tan and perfectly arranged "wild" blond hair indicating Donna's stanch independence.

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‘Mamma Mia!‘s’ Amanda Seyfried talks about the price of fame

by Howard Gensler [Philadelphia Daily News (MCT)]

[17.Jul.08] :. Amanda Seyfried (pronounced SIGH-frid) says that her big eyes make her look a bit like a frog. But the Amanda sitting across a small table last month in a suite at New York’s Ritz-Carlton...

‘Mamma’ Mangled

by Bill Gibron

[17.Jul.08] :. When it arrives in theaters tomorrow (18 July), Mamma Mia! will probably go down as one of the biggest hits of Summer 2008. It has all the elements that make for a bold box office champion -...

The Return of the Popcorn Circus: July 2008

by Bill Gibron

[30.Apr.08] :. And it just doesn't stop. If part two in this three-ring play was packed with well hyped product, July just keeps the receipt treats coming.

‘Goya’s Ghost’ director witnessed parallels to the Inquisition

by Steven Rea [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[26.Jul.07] :. Miloš Forman first heard about the Spanish Inquisition when he was a student in Prague. “It was probably my first shock as a citizen,” says the 75-year-old, two-time Oscar winning...

Goya’s Ghosts (Los Fantasmas de Goya) (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Jul.07] :. If Miloš Forman's movie doesn't take up his distinctive visual style, it does embrace his broad satire, ferociously targeting religious, state, and financial leaders.

Part 5: The Return of the Auteur

by PopMatters Staff

[22.Jun.07] :. That noise you heard near the start of the new millennium was the creative din of a brash new breed of filmmakers tearing down the traditions of mainstream moviemaking. Their motion picture mission statements -- including the ones featured on this list -- remain the rulebook for new generations of anxious film artists.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Jul.06] :. Demented and punctuated by Depp's scowls and "oofs," Jack Sparrow's stunty bits are mostly amusing and sometimes even surprising.

King Arthur: Extended Unrated Director’s Cut (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Dec.04] :. 'The idea of these young boys being taken away from home at a young age... reminded me a lot of my own culture,' says director Antoine Fuqua.

Exorcist: The Beginning (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[27.Aug.04] :. Father Merrin, action hero. Who could have imagined it?"

King Arthur (2004)

by Jesse Hassenger

[8.Jul.04] :. This generically gritty and solidly PG-13 King Arthur isn't even much of an action picture.

Dogville (2003)

by Todd R. Ramlow

[15.Apr.04] :. The accusation that the film is 'anti-American' says less about Von Trier than it does about the American psyche.

City of Ghosts (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.May.03] :. A strangely moralistic romance, premised on his relationship with the setting, Cambodia.