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Monday, March 23 2009

Part 1: The Thin Red Line to Star Wars Episode I (January - May 1999)

The first part of PopMatters' look back at the films of 1999 is bookended by the long awaited return of two cinematic auteurs of wildly different styles, Terrence Malick and George Lucas.


Friday, December 26 2008

Hollywood, race and the Age of Obama


Monday, September 22 2008

Prison Break: Season 3

The great thing about watching this show on DVD, rather than on TV, is that it doesn’t allow you a chance to actually sit and think about it.


Monday, September 1 2008

Prison Break

Prison Break has never lacked for the burly grrr factor.


Monday, September 17 2007

Prison Break

The start of Prison Break's third season is exactly right: a crowd of gnarly, noisy men, surrounded by prison walls and doused by rain.


Monday, September 10 2007

Blades of Glory

It takes genuine pros to make the mock-sport movie look like a worthwhile competition. A brisk, disposable amusement.


Tuesday, April 3 2007

oFirst Snow (2006)

Any movie that finds a place for the remarkable Jackie Burroughs begins with bonus points.


Monday, September 11 2006

Prison Break

Much as the Scofields despise the abject corruption that got them into this fix, they plainly feel less affinity for shadows than full-on righteousness. They believe they can get even.


Wednesday, March 8 2006

Invasion

It's in the consideration of race and race differences that Invasion has emerged in its first season as one of television's most insightful terrorism-scare shows.


Wednesday, September 28 2005

Invasion

Invasion is the best Stephen King series he never penned.


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