Articles tagged "the wire"

Books Review

The Way Home by George Pelecanos

by Will Layman

[4.Aug.09] :. There's not a saint here, but most of the sinners have saintly moments.

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20 Questions Feature

Paul Ben-Victor

by PopMatters Staff

[12.Apr.09] :. We learn at PopMatters 20 Questions that in addition to his acting skills, Ben-Victor has a knack for doing wild makeup designs and body art.

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

Off the Radar - The Top 30 DVDs of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[13.Jan.09] :. Oddly enough, while the major studios continue scratching their heads over how to sell yet another new format (Blu-ray) to disinterested consumers, several outside distributors made sure that this would be a digital year to remember.

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Feature

The Necktie and the Noose

by Daniel McNeil

[2.Sep.08] :. Will Barack Obama face the accusations that black professionals sometimes face of abandoning their heritage? Does it hinge on his choice of tie?

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TV Feature

Women and ‘The Wire’

by Sophie Jones

[25.Aug.08] :. Why the most intelligent show on TV, a compelling exploration of the circumstances and institutional pressures that make people who they are, gets an "F" in Gender Studies.

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TV DVD Review

The Wire: The Complete Fifth Season

by Chris Barsanti

[15.Aug.08] :. The dense mythology, painstakingly created over five novelistic seasons, has enough drama packed inside to be easily spun out for the next five, ten, 15 years.

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Shunning resolution, shock and tears, ‘The Wire’ stays loose to the end

by David Hiltbrand [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[11.Mar.08] :. The epitaph to “The Wire,” HBO’s blistering five-season chronicle of urban decay, was delivered by Cheese (rapper Method Man) in what amounted to his last words as he brandished a...

 

A fond farewell to HBO’s ‘The Wire’

by Rick Kushman [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[7.Mar.08] :. When “The Wire” began five seasons and a lifetime of innocence ago, it opened with a scenario that said everything about the beautiful, piercingly honest pain we were in for. A homicide...

 

Down to ‘The Wire’: Sunday’s the finale for the acclaimed series

by Ellen Gray [Philadelphia Daily News (MCT)]

[6.Mar.08] :. When I say that HBO’s “The Wire” comes to an end on Sunday night, I mean it. If your screen goes black in the middle of a scene, do not sit there cursing the darkness. Call the...

 
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TV Review

The Wire

by Jesse Hicks

[27.Jan.08] :. In David Simon's indictment of American capitalism, numbers -- say, crime stats and school test scores -- no longer have an epistemic value, they don't refer to any external reality.

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HBO series is down to ‘The Wire’

by Chuck Barney [Contra Costa Times (MCT)]

[7.Jan.08] :. When thoughts of the writers’ strike and the havoc it has wreaked start to bum us out, it’s encouraging to know that we still have “The Wire.” For at least a little while...

 

The Wire: The Complete Fourth Season

by Bruce Dancis [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[10.Dec.07] :. The 4th season DVD shows why The Wire is the best show on TV.

 
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TV Review

The Wire

by Jesse Hicks

[20.Sep.06] :. This is the consequence of America's broken systems: a young boy staring into the darkness, wondering what else his future might bring.

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