Features
Thursday, January 24 2013
The Worst Films of 2012
When movies are mediocre, they're maddening. But when they are as bad as the selections here, you can't help but question the artform's overall validity.
Tuesday, May 1 2012
Hot Stuff: The 2012 PopMatters Summer Movie Preview (May)
It begins with a bang, as one of the most highly anticipated comic book movies battles beleaguered vampires, underwater aliens, and the return of Agents J & K for May's monetary consideration.
Thursday, October 16 2008
Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs: Part 3
Day Three - The final ten, a cross-culture collection teeming with big ideas, larger than life visions, and perhaps the greatest documentary on rugby you've probably never heard of.
Wednesday, April 30 2008
The Return of the Popcorn Circus: July 2008
And it just doesn't stop. If part two in this three-ring play was packed with well hyped product, July just keeps the receipt treats coming.
Reviews
Thursday, August 30 2012
'Battleship' Is a HIT! Well, Not at the Box Office...
Although it wasn't a hit at the box office, Peter Berg's boisterous battle royale on boats is a hit in my heart—and the most fun you'll have all summer.
Friday, May 18 2012
'Battleship' Is a Loud Suggestion of a Big Summer Movie
Battleship has plenty of trailer moments, 15-second expensive-looking money shots of stuff blowing up in all sizes and shapes.
Friday, January 20 2012
'On Freddie Roach': New Angles on Boxing
As actual and consequential as fighting is in On Freddie Roach, it's also figurative and allusive, shaping self-images as it reshapes physical bodies.
Thursday, September 22 2011
'Prime Suspect' Manages to Dash All High Expectations
With the cards so loaded against Jane as a woman, she quickly becomes a caricature, a throwback to the strident Ms. dreamed up by men in the '70s and '80s.
Wednesday, July 2 2008
Hancock
John Hancock is a black superhero desired and derided by crowds who are informed by spectacles, stereotypes, and fear.
Blogs
Monday, May 28 2012
'Battleship': What Did You Expect?
The film is a huge missed opportunity, not because of its action potential but because of its subtext.
Friday, May 18 2012
Sunk? This 'Battleship' Stunk!
Battleship is bollocks. Oddly enough, it makes no apologies for being so stupid.
Wednesday, April 25 2012
The 10 Best Songs by the Band
We lost a true musical treasure last week with the passing of Levon Helm of the Band. As a tribute, here are 10 of his group's best songs.
Wednesday, July 2 2008
'Hancock' Hampered by Schizophrenic Script
Will Smith is the new up to date version of the late in life career of Charleton Heston. No, he's not some gun wielding NRA…
News
Thursday, July 3 2008
Unheroic superhero appealed to director 'Hancock' director Peter Berg
"I loved the idea of an alcoholic, nihilistic, subversive superhero, fighting crime drunk," says Peter Berg about "Hancock" - a screenplay that's been kicking around…
Friday, November 9 2007
Today's foreign wars are Hollywood hell
This is not your grandfather's war. This war is unpopular and controversial, seemingly endless. But that hasn't stopped Hollywood from releasing a series of films…
Thursday, October 11 2007
A new script for Hollywood war movies
Anti-war demonstrators storm the Pentagon in the movie "Across the Universe." A career soldier protests the Iraq conflict in "In the Valley of Elah." The…
Monday, October 1 2007
Hollywood goes to war: Mainstream movies focus on Iraq, terrorism
Writer Matthew Michael Carnahan makes a living pounding out movie scripts, where flights of fantasy and retreats from reality are the daily stock in trade.…
