Features
Monday, January 9 2012
The Best DVDs of 2011
With the continuing rise of Blu-ray, this year sees a lot of repeat entries. Just because they're here again, however, doesn't mean they're any less special.
Monday, August 29 2011
The 100 Essential Directors Part 9: Victor Sjöström to Luchino Visconti
Today we present a glorious spate of international auteurs that range from cinematic innovators from the silent era to those who continue to push the limits of film in their contemporary work.
Friday, May 20 2011
When Greed Is Good
The economic system has only one purpose, which is to create wealth. In the market’s language, this is the only “good". If evil exists, then it must be loss, which is the opposite of the good. For Gordon Gekko, this is the only morality which exists.
Monday, September 27 2010
Masters of the Universe: Oliver Stone's 'Wall Street'
In his desire to trump his upper crust "superiors", Gekko's personal ethic could be read as a perverted, ultimately hypocritical form of populist revolt.
Friday, September 24 2010
Reconsidering the Oliver Stone Filmography
As Oliver Stone's update to the Wall Street hits theatres, PopMatters is taking a look back at select works by the influential and thought-provoking director.
Reviews
Friday, June 24 2011
'Platoon': Choices, Lies, False Hopes and Spoiled Innocence of Another Era, Rather Like Our Own
Although it's been said that Platoon is a war movie for people who hate war, it's better described as a war movie that questions the premises of every war film that came before -- and many that came after.
Wednesday, March 2 2011
Hangin' with the New Bolivarians in Oliver Stone's 'South of the Border'
Oliver Stone has chosen to channel his 'radical' political leanings into his documentaries, and this film would seem to bear that out.
Monday, January 17 2011
Watch Out for the Moral Hazard in 'Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps'
The only thing more fun that Gordon Gekko, Master of the Universe is Gordon Gekko the Underdog, trying to sleaze his way back to the top. Unfortunately, this is not that story.
Friday, September 24 2010
'Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps': Mother of All Evil
This being Oliver Stone's long-gestating, self-important sequel to Wall Street, Jake will be learning some harsh life lessons.
Thursday, September 23 2010
'Wall Street': A Worthy Message to Beat People Over the Head With
If only real life were this easy to figure out. In Oliver Stone’s hands, even the most complicated tangle can come out looking like two distinct strands.
Blogs
Friday, September 24 2010
Greed...Is Dull - 'Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps'
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps is the kind of movie Stone could set-up in his sleep...and a lot of the time, it looks like he did.
Tuesday, September 21 2010
Gekko as Hero? Hell NO!
Gekko isn't really the kind of noted nasty you love to embrace. Instead, he's everything that's bad in our current economic downturn. He's the target of a Michael Moore documentary, a running gag for Bill Maher's politically incorrect vivisection of the times.
Monday, November 2 2009
Still Scandalous: 'Natural Born Killers' 15 Years Later
"At its heart, it's a love story…albeit a relatively strange one" or so says Oliver Stone at the beginning of the latest DVD version of…
Monday, October 12 2009
Natural Born Killers (Director's Cut) Comes Out on DVD (video)
In 2008, Entertainment Weekly conducted an online poll of the 25 most controversial movies of all time, and Natural Born Killers ended up at number…
Thursday, October 16 2008
'W.' is Brilliant Political Theater
How did it happen? How did a man with limited governing skills, a track record of career calamities, a laundry list of personality (and parental)…
News
Tuesday, May 18 2010
Director is premiering a sequel to his 1987 hit 'Wall Street,' and the timing couldn't be better
CANNES, France — Addressing reporters at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday, filmmaker Oliver Stone was rattling off a series of facts and figures about…
Thursday, May 14 2009
Did Hollywood inspire the meltdown men?
Forget Bernie Madoff. The Wall Street veteran who might be the real scapegoat for our country's financial meltdown hasn't closed a deal in more than…
Friday, October 31 2008
Audiences turn a deaf ear to preachy Hollywood films
Used to be, going to the movies was a way to escape the bustle and stress of the real world for a couple of hours.…
Thursday, October 23 2008
Oliver Stone has no regrets about release of 'W.'
Oliver Stone waited almost two decades to make a movie based on his Vietnam War experiences, but he couldn't wait till President George W. Bush…
