Features
Monday, January 23 2012
The 40 Best Films of 2011
2011 was a year of good, not necessarily great, films, though the amazing choices by our staff might argue against such a overall cinematic classification.
Friday, January 13 2012
The Best Indie / International Films of 2011
The year's best independent and international films are highlighted by a duo from iconic director Werner Herzog, a staggeringly brilliant frontier-western and a score of top-notch documentaries that illustrate how filmmaking continues to reach new highs.
Tuesday, May 3 2011
Summer Movie Preview: June 2011
The return of everyone's favorite mutants, the arrival of an intergalactic peacekeeper, and some guy with a bunch of birds marks June's idea of sunny Summer fun.
Monday, January 31 2011
Missed Movies of 2010, Part 1: 3 Idiots to Lebanon
In part one of our missed movies special feature, the staff looks at a wide variety of titles, from a creepy urban legend, a look at vampires, South African style, and the latest from greats like Mike Leigh and Robert Duvall, to documentaries of such famous (or perhaps, infamous) faces as Joan Rivers and Spalding Gray.
Friday, January 11 2008
Super Duper Bad: The Worst Films of 2007
From Good Luck Chuck to Julie Taymor's ill-advised Beatlesque '60s tribute Across the Universe, PopMatters presents the dreck of 2007.
Reviews
Thursday, November 17 2011
‘The Trip’ is a Desperation Odyssey
Bleakly rolling moors and stiff-chinned restaurants bring a chilly tone to this austere, investigative, self-reflexive, and yet somehow rollicking comedy from the winningly self-reflexive Tristram Shandy band.
Friday, June 10 2011
Steve Coogan's Big 'Trip'
In The Trip, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon embark on a series of meditations on show business, women, and something like the meaning of life.
Thursday, April 14 2011
Wonderful Performances Carry 'A Summer in Genoa'
Colin Firth stars in Michael Winterbottom's latest, a film about a father and two daughters coping and escaping from a death in the family.
Friday, November 16 2007
A Mighty Heart
At last, all we have is the horror we began with. Pearl will be beheaded, for nothing, and the world gets a little darker.
Friday, June 22 2007
A Mighty Heart (2007)
In images of the street and daily Karachi life, the movie finds drama that is "unfamiliar" but also crucial, suggesting the complexity of the task set before investigators in Danny's case.
Blogs
Friday, October 21 2011
'The Trip' Offers Food, Friendship,...and Fear.
The Trip is consistently less about the meal and more about the men having it.
Friday, July 9 2010
'The Killer Inside Me': Appropriately Disgusting
The controversy around The Killer Inside Me's unflinching portrayal of violence is misplaced -- it is the use of violence as slick entertainment and a means to self-reflection that is truly disturbing.
News
Thursday, June 14 2007
Kidnapped journalist's murder leads to Jolie film
SAN FRANCISCO -- "I write this book for you, Danny, because you had the courage of this most solitary act: to die with your hands…
