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PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007 Feature

Digital Dynamite: The 30 Best DVDs of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[25.Jan.08] :. It was the year of the behemoth box set, the multi-disc triumph that tried to give long suffering fans everything their demanding little digital hearts ever desired. Here are PopMatters' 30 picks for the best DVDs of the year.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007

 

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007 Feature

A Gallery of Good Works: The Best Films of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[11.Jan.08] :. From Julian Schnabel's artsy The Diving Bell and the Butterfly to the legendary Coen Brothers splendid adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men, PopMatters counts down the 30 best films of 2007.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007

 

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007 Feature

Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Male

by PopMatters Staff

[9.Jan.08] :. From the tender and eerie precision of Sam Riley's depiction of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis in Control to yet another superlative performance by Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood, PopMatters highlights the best male actors of 2007.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007

 

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‘Bad Boys’ influenced the British makers of ‘Hot Fuzz’

by Joshua Klein [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[28.Jul.07] :. The British comedy “Hot Fuzz,” out this week on DVD, plays like a compendium of every action movie and cop thriller cliche ever made. The brilliance of creators Simon Pegg and Edgar...

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Hot Fuzz (2007)

by Daynah Burnett

[24.Apr.07] :. Hot Fuzz is all about the guys. And who needs girls when you have guns?

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‘Hot Fuzz’: Filmakers approve the use of deadly farce

by Phoebe Flowers [South Florida Sun-Sentinel]

[20.Apr.07] :. "The one word that we bristle at is 'spoof.'"

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‘Hot Fuzz’: An Over-the-top Brit-riff

by Roger Moore [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)]

[20.Apr.07] :. Simon Pegg is the silliest David Caruso since the real one in Hot Fuzz, an over-the-top Brit-riff on cop movies, cop shows and the CSI age we live in. All that’s missing are the...

 

Taking aim at cop movies with ‘Hot Fuzz’

by Jeff Strickler [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)]

[19.Apr.07] :. Most filmmakers hate the city-a-day promotion tours that inevitably end up producing a lot more sitting around—in airports, airplanes, taxis, hotel rooms and restaurants—than promoting....

 

The PopMatters ‘Short Ends & Leader’ Spring Film Preview

by Bill Gibron

[2.Mar.07] :. In order to separate the worthy from the worthless, PopMatters' "Short Ends & Leader" editor is highlighting 10 new films he's looking forward to this spring.

 

Hercules

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.May.05] :. The labors are colorful on paper, somewhat less than thrilling in execution.

 

Naked in New York (1993)

by Jesse Hassenger

[23.Sep.04] :. Naked in New York tries to distinguish itself through flights of fancy, but these are too brief, as if director Daniel Algrant can't commit.

 

Cromwell (1970)

by Lesley Smith

[7.Oct.03] :. Ken Hughes' portrait of Cromwell allows him to recast the military, particularly its leaders, as betrayed by politicians of all stripes.

 

American Outlaws (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

It's grand, being so proficient at killing, and it's pretty darn All American too.