Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Male

By PopMatters Staff

From the tender and eerie precision of Sam Riley's depiction of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis in Control to yet another superlative performance by Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood, PopMatters highlights the best male actors of 2007. [9 January 2008]

Eastern Promises

By Cynthia Fuchs

Eastern Promises crosses up and recombines stories of parents and children, even violence and history. [14 September 2007]

The Fly (Collector’s Edition) / The Fly II (Special Edition) (1986/1989)

By Bill Gibron

Timeless terror needs more than goop and glop. Only one Fly film even tried to get it right. [16 November 2005]

A History of Violence (2005)

By Cynthia Fuchs

This slippage between myth and realism, or maybe expectation and consummation, is precisely the genius of A History of Violence. [23 September 2005]

Spider (2002)

By Cynthia Fuchs

It's creepy inside Spider's head. [28 July 2003]

Spider (2002)

By Cynthia Fuchs

It's creepy inside Spider's head. [28 February 2003]

Short Ends and Leader: Fast Company (1979): Blu-ray

Viggo Mortensen, director Cronenberg reunite for gangster movie [17 September 2007]