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

The New Classics - The 30 Best Films of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[16.Jan.09] :. Unlike previous years, where classics came crawling out of the celluloid woodwork with regular reckless abandon, 2008 was more calm… and considered. That's not to say that choosing 30 top titles was hard. The difficulty in placing them in some manner of rank order suggests the actual depth of quality involved.

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

Film Review

Speed Racer

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.May.08] :. Inspired by the mostly beloved late '60s Japanese cartoon, Speed Racer is loud, large, and proudly crass.

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The PopMatters Summer 2008 Movie Preview Feature

The Return of the Popcorn Circus: May 2008

by Bill Gibron

[28.Apr.08] :. In the first act of this four-part production, Tinsel Town decides to do some unbelievable front loading. Will there be room for independent offerings, or former HBO carnal comedy divas? Who knows? Without a doubt, it's an interesting way to start the season.

The PopMatters Summer 2008 Movie Preview

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Romance & Cigarettes

by Dan MacIntosh

[18.Feb.08] :. Turturro has filled the screen with plenty of song, dance, and sex talk, but this is not your typical love story.

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Bob Balaban, behind the camera for HBO’s ‘Bernard and Doris’

by Luaine Lee [McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)]

[12.Feb.08] :. SANTA MONICA, Calif.—Actor Bob Balaban is a force to be reckoned with - all 5 foot 5 ¾ of him. Most people know him from his roles in “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,”...

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Bernard and Doris

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Feb.08] :. As much as Bernard and Doris is a love story, it is also a study of the difficulties of class and sex, the ways that both complicate intimacy.

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The hazards of Duke: Susan Sarandon plays famed heiress in HBO movie

by Ellen Gray [Philadelphia Daily News (MCT)]

[7.Feb.08] :. When Susan Sarandon brought her dog, Penny, along to a round of interviews at HBO last month, it seemed only fitting. After all, the very petite blonde, who’s going on 3, did have a couple of...

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.

Iraq War-themed films can’t find an audience

by Soren Andersen [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[2.Jan.08] :. What if they made a war movie and nobody came to see it? No biggie. Individual films fail all the time for all kinds of reasons. Filmmaking is a crapshoot. Always has been. Always will be. The...

Enchanted

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Nov.07] :. Giselle (Amy Adams) has the ideal animated life.

A new script for Hollywood war movies

by Carrie Rickey [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[11.Oct.07] :. Anti-war demonstrators storm the Pentagon in the movie “Across the Universe.” A career soldier protests the Iraq conflict in “In the Valley of Elah.” The tactics of an elite...

Hollywood goes to war: Mainstream movies focus on Iraq, terrorism

by Cary Darling [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[1.Oct.07] :. Writer Matthew Michael Carnahan makes a living pounding out movie scripts, where flights of fantasy and retreats from reality are the daily stock in trade. But a couple of autumns back, while...

Tight-lipped Tommy Lee Jones on ‘In the Valley of Elah’

by Howard Gensler [Philadelphia Daily News (MCT)]

[21.Sep.07] :. TORONTO—Oscar-winning actor Tommy Lee Jones, likely to be nominated again for one or both of his fall movies, “In the Valley of Elah” (opening Friday) and “No Country for Old...

In the Valley of Elah

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Sep.07] :. Paul Haggis' film posits Hank as an old-school man of honor, both punished and revered for his traditional "values."

Mr. Woodcock

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Sep.07] :. You could call Mr. Woodcock the latest version of The Billy Bob Thornton Movie.

Elizabethtown: Widescreen Special Collector’s Edition (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Feb.06] :. The DVD of Elizabethtown is called the Widescreen Special Collector's Edition, though there's not one thing special about it.

Elizabethtown (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Oct.05] :. Cameron Crowe's Elizabethtown does not know how to end.

Alfie (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Mar.05] :. Jude Law's performance is wholly charming and energetic.

Shall We Dance? (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.Feb.05] :. 'The fact is,' says director Peter Chelsom, 'I was very, very wary about remaking such a perfect original.'"

Alfie (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Nov.04] :. Surrounded by urgent, provocative signposts that he just can't see, Alfie remains lost.

Shall We Dance? (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Oct.04] :. Paulina is not only gorgeous, athletic, and lithe, she's also in need of solace.

Moonlight Mile (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Oct.02] :. Fits a little too neatly with the recent popularity of media considering grief and death rituals.

Igby Goes Down (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Sep.02] :. Burr Steers' first feature is populated by exceptionally quirky characters, most related by blood.

The Banger Sisters (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Sep.02] :. For these few minutes, The Banger Sisters venerates imperfection and adventure.

Rugrats in Paris: The Movie (2000)

by John G. Nettles

Down in Orlando, the Mouse King must sit uneasily in his Magic Kingdom, casting a baleful black eye at the upstart in garish mufti just a few miles down the road. The venerable kids’ cable...

Joe Gould’s Secret (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Joe Gould (Ian Holm) is what they used to call a 'character.' You see him early in Stanley Tucci's film, scuttling into a diner where New Yorker writer Joseph Mitchell (Tucci) is having coffee.

Cats & Dogs (2001)

by Tracy McLoone

In 'Cats & Dogs', the colors are a little too bright, everything is a bit too perfect. And all is not as swell as the humans would think: it's 'American Beauty' for pets.