Articles tagged "tom mccarthy"![]() PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008 FeatureOff the Radar - The Top 30 DVDs of 2008by 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. PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008 ![]() TV FeatureWomen 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. PopMatters Pick![]() TV DVD ReviewThe Wire: The Complete Fifth Seasonby 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. ![]() NewsUn-Hollywood film lets its story unfold in a natural wayby Rick Bentley [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][19.Jun.08] :. The challenge filmmakers face these days is how to be original. Most movies are aimed at those in their late teens and early 20s. But director/writer Tom McCarthy bucks Hollywood’s obsession... ![]() TV ReviewThe Situationby Cynthia Fuchs[19.Mar.08] :. As The Situation makes a mucky melodrama out of the war in Iraq, it accommodates an American perspective of its own actions. ![]() Film ReviewThe Situation (2006)by Cynthia Fuchs[2.Feb.07] :. Even as The Situation makes a mucky melodrama out of the war in Iraq, this effect does not seem entirely inappropriate, as it accommodates a U.S. perspective of its own actions. |
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