Features
Tuesday, January 10 2012
The Guilty Pleasure Films of 2011
You may snicker when looking over this list, but these are the films of 2011 that made us feel guilty for loving them so -- and love them we do.
Friday, January 8 2010
The Best 30 Films of 2009
In one of the rarest rating periods ever, several on the staff could successfully argue for any of the Top 30 choices as a potential number one. While not all classics, they remain the consistent cream of 2009's crop.
Wednesday, January 6 2010
The Best Male Film Performances of 2009
Certainly, the multi-millionaire boy's club represented here is heavy on the dramatics and light on the more 'amusing' fare. But if you really give this list a meaningful perusal you'll see a few genre and jokester surprises along the way.
Thursday, January 17 2008
Accepting the Blame: The Top Guilty Pleasures of 2007
PopMatters proffers its collection of 2007's most notable defective faves. And it's okay to laugh. After all, we'd probably do the same to you and your uncomfortable fixations as well.
Friday, May 4 2007
Monkey Business (Part 4: August)
In past years, Hollywood purposely counter programmed these renowned Cineplex dog days, trying to offset the perception that cinematic scraps were all the studios had to offer. From the look of this lame list, it's apparently back to the filmic fridge for some patently warmed over offerings.
Reviews
Tuesday, September 13 2011
'Paul': A Road Trip Flick, 'E.T.'-Style
Like Kevin Smith before them, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost probably strike a lot of nerds as one of their own: normal-looking blokes with self-taught expertise in any number of movie genres.
Friday, March 18 2011
'Paul': Vaguely Greenish
Paul succeeds because it respects its sources, embracing the clichés of alien movies while simultaneously subverting them.
Wednesday, September 2 2009
Adventureland
A hugely enjoyable blend of humor and agony that captures the confused, painful, but open-ended state of late adolescence.
Friday, April 3 2009
Adventureland
Adventureland is as tidy and predictable as it sounds. And it falls into that annoying trap that seems to plague this sort of film, relying on an unrelenting '80s soundtrack to set tones and cue plot points.
Saturday, August 18 2007
Superbad
Though it seems like a thoroughly modern experience, Superbad does have a delicious throwback mentality, a sense of humiliating history reminiscent of those days in back of the classroom, trading newly learned dirty jokes with your fellow classmates.
Blogs
Friday, March 18 2011
Paul: Geek Speak Supreme
This is a very good film. One imagines though that it could have been great... very great indeed.
Wednesday, January 19 2011
Whatever Simon Says
Simon Pegg. Nick Frost. Together, they're pretty much unstoppable.
Saturday, August 22 2009
Adventureland (2009): Blu-ray
They really shouldn't call it coming of age. That simply suggests the passage or arrival of time. Instead, they should label it "the moment of…
Wednesday, April 8 2009
Adventureland: Bastards of Young
A loping comedy of displacement that snaps off dozens of easy laughs without breaking a sweat, Adventureland transcends the indie comedy trap by dint of not being content merely to capture its milieu but to animate it.
News
Monday, August 20 2007
Seth Rogen turns his adolescence into 'Superbad'
LOS ANGELES -- Earlier this summer, when writer-producer Judd Apatow was promoting his new comedy "Knocked Up," he was asked by a skeptical reporter if…
