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Lake City

by Bill Gibron

[15.Mar.09] :. Questions are never good for a thriller. They circumvent any sizzle or suspense you might build up.

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Lake City (2008)

by Bill Gibron

[28.Feb.09] :. The secret that has torn apart a once close knit family. A room in the brooding clan’s farmhouse that no one ever goes in. The seedy side of Smalltown USA. The distant father who’s unable...

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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.

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British director gets around to making his own sci-fi adventure

by Rene Rodriguez [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[30.Jul.07] :. Soon after having made his second film, the exuberant drug-addiction drama “Trainspotting,” Danny Boyle got a lucrative offer from 20th Century Fox to direct the fourth installment in the...

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‘Sunshine’ star Michelle Yeoh hits the heights

by Ethan Sacks [New York Daily News (MCT)]

[26.Jul.07] :. The world’s most famous female action heroine is deathly afraid of heights. Yet there was Michelle Yeoh, lashed into a nose-diving stunt plane to simulate zero gravity, in preparation for her...

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Sunshine (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Jul.07] :. The notion of loss pervades Sunshine, even as calculations of self are increasingly complex.

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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.

 

Sir! No Sir! (2006)

by Shaun Huston

[19.Jan.07] :. Sir! No Sir! uses the personal stories of non-cooperators to argue that it was identification with "the enemy", a recognition of the humanity in individual Vietnamese people, that prompted combat and support personnel to refuse orders and quit the military.

 

Sir! No Sir! (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.May.06] :. War, the documentary establishes right off, is mythic and ruinous.

 

Barbershop: DVD Collector’s Set (2002/2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Nov.04] :. The Barbershop movies focus their energies on familial feelings and communal inclinations, and Cedric's wily jokes.

 

Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Jun.04] :. Eddie (Cedric the Entertainer) comes to understand a new place for himself, and, no small thing, frames an acutely political history by his own story.

 

Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Feb.04] :. These first five minutes grant Eddie and the barbershop some specific background, of resistance and community.

 

Barbershop (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Sep.02] :. Barbershop's multiple charms are all sweet.