Friday, October 22 2010
Exoticism and Eroticism in ‘Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence’
As with Gohatto, Oshima's English-language debut features an exotic interloper who causes a sexual disturbance among an insular clique.
Friday, April 10 2009
Dennis Potter: 3 to Remember
Potter crafted unsettling suburban-gothic morality tales that polarized audiences while attracting heated denouncements from numerous politicos and pundits.
Thursday, January 24 2008
Gone and Not Forgotten: The PopMatters DVD Wish List
A lot of good movies are still missing from DVD. Here is a list of 25 that PopMatters feels have been unceremoniously left to simply fade away.
Sunday, January 1 1995
Deadline
In 'Deadline', Dick Wolf's new show for NBC, no one, least of all the self-satisfied Wallace Benton (played with plumy waspishness by Oliver Platt), seems to care a fig for the story.
