Features
Thursday, January 24 2008
Gone and Not Forgotten: The PopMatters DVD Wish List
A lot of good movies are still missing from DVD. Here is a list of 25 that PopMatters feels have been unceremoniously left to simply fade away.
Reviews
Friday, March 27 2009
Ironweed
Besting Robert De Niro, Gene Hackman, Paul Newman, Jason Robards and Sam Shepard, Jack Nicholson gives one of his most complicated, consuming performances.
Tuesday, November 18 2008
Kiss of the Spider Woman
The novel was ideal for independent filmmaking; the resulting film, even more than 20 years later, is still superb.
Thursday, September 23 2004
Carandiru (2003)
Carandiru is about how stories are told, what they mean to different listeners, how they create identities and communities.
Thursday, June 3 2004
Carandiru (2003)
The camera deposits you inside the notoriously overcrowded and treacherous São Paulo prison, where two inmates argue over one's right to slit the other's throat.
Blogs
Sunday, October 26 2008
Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
Politics are not only social. They can be personal, or professional. They can encompass our entire life, or play a very tiny, very unimportant part…
