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The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview Feature

Summer of Same: June 2009

by Bill Gibron

[28.Apr.09] :. This month's "original" fare offers a take on a Sid and Marty Krofft classic, more battling seizure robots, and the retaking of '70s subway thriller. Everything old is new again.

The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview

 

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Death Race (2008): Unrated DVD

by Bill Gibron

[20.Dec.08] :. Remakes are like those proverbial Tribbles in the classic Trek episode. Give them a creative inch - or in the case of Hollywood, a recognizable box office return - and they’ll overrun...

Short Ends and Leader

 

Film Review

Death Race

by Lesley Smith

[22.Aug.08] :. Anderson dilutes Roger Corman’s satire by locating Death Race among society’s transgressors, depicting their dysfunctions with gory relish, and confining the race safely behind the walls of an isolated prison.

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Short Ends and Leader

‘Race’ Racks Up Some Guilty Pleasures

by Bill Gibron

[22.Aug.08] :. Remakes are like those proverbial Tribbles in the classic Trek episode. Give them a creative inch - or in the case of Hollywood, a recognizable box office return - and they’ll overrun...

Short Ends and Leader

 

Film DVD Review

Transformers

by Erik Hinton

[26.Oct.07] :. Consider the patience and time it takes to build a ship in a bottle. Now imagine a fully functional Spanish Armada in a snow globe.

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News

Will the new ‘Transformers’ film have ‘The Touch’?

by Jeff Vrabel [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[3.Jul.07] :. As someone who spent much of his childhood collecting and breaking Transformers, I’m approaching next week’s movie version with a feeling that veers back and forth between terror and...

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Transformers (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Jul.07] :. The point here is excess. For 144 minutes, the film pummels and pounds, delivering explosions, combat troops, speeding vehicles, computer codes, giant robots -- and more explosions.

 

Transformers (2007)

by Bill Gibron

[3.Jul.07] :. Without the weight of an already formed franchise to pull it down, this filmic funhouse is allowed to spin wildly out of control. We simply sit back and enjoy the operatic ride.

 

Monkey Business (Part 3: July)

by Bill Gibron

[3.May.07] :. Finally, a month with only one remaining series contender. All wizard based Potter-y aside, this will be the most tenuous time for the business called show. After a strong start, the eccentric collection of entertainments here could make or break this potentially record shattering motion picture season.

 

Annapolis (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Jul.06] :. Toward the end of 'achieving a balance' in the film, Justin Lin says, 'It was just basically a massage all the way through, from the writing to the production to the editing.'

 

Annapolis (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Jun.06] :. Toward the end of 'achieving a balance' in the film, Justin Lin says, 'It was just basically a massage all the way through, from the writing to the production to the editing.'"

 

Waist Deep (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Jun.06] :. "Save our streets! Save our streets!" So pronounce the earnest demonstrators who appear at the start of Waist Deep, their placards raised high, their faces showing frustration.

 

Annapolis (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[27.Jan.06] :. Annapolis is straight-up male melodrama.

 

Four Brothers (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Jan.06] :. 'I grew up in sunny southern California, and I'm not used to snow,' says John Singleton. 'I wanted to do a movie with snow in it, so here it is.'"

 

Four Brothers (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Aug.05] :. In between the guilt-tripping and the domestic melodrama, the boys argue over priorities.

 

Flight of the Phoenix (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Feb.05] :. Much like John Moore's Behind Enemy Lines, Phoenix splices together traditional and current action movie clichés and rhythms.

 

Flight of the Phoenix (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Dec.04] :. Most remarkably, after what looks like weeks in the desert sun, no one ever gets a sunburn.

 

Baby Boy (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

John Singleton's 'Baby Boy' begins with a bang. But it's not the sort of bang you'd expect from the guy whose first film was the earnest 'Boyz N the Hood' (1991), or whose last, the explosive 'Shaft' (2000), had its Armani-clad protagonist declaring, 'It's Giuliani time!' as he stalked off to blow away a few bad cops.