Tuesday, August 9 2011
Quentin Tarantino’s Cinematic Reality
Quentin Tarantino is reliving his childhood cinema experiences, reinterpreting fractured moments of memory. Going to the movies is about an escape from our world, a mirror world at once familiar yet different.
Friday, March 27 2009
Part 5: Toy Story 2 to Titus (November - December 1999)
On this final day of PopMatters' 1999 overview, awards season hype gives way to pure acting prowess and definitive directorial flair.
Thursday, May 1 2008
The Return of the Popcorn Circus: August 2008
Talk about a crowded schedule. There are more offerings scheduled this month than in the previous two combined.
Tuesday, April 22 2008
The Life Before Her Eyes
Calling up collective fears and resentments, The Life Before Her Eyes offers a most prosaic moral framework.
Wednesday, March 19 2008
Gattaca
This film is quietly provocative, well crafted, and a subtle meditation on the future.
Thursday, February 1 2007
My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006)
This film hovers somewhere between sappy romantic comedy and action movie, falling back on lazy gender-reversal jokes and super hero tropes.
Friday, July 21 2006
My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006)
Eddie Izzard brings a whole other dimension to My Super Ex-Girlfriend, being wily and subversive rather than flamboyant.
Friday, December 23 2005
The Producers (2005)
No one can be wholly ruined in a big fat sardonic musical, a form demanding grandeur, gaucheness, and above all, giddy delights. Unfortunately, this movie musical rather forgets the movie part.
Friday, October 28 2005
Prime (2005)
Wise and soothing, Lisa occasionally sounds more like a girlfriend than the usual movie shrink, and this is, you think, a good thing.
