Features
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.
Reviews
Monday, March 1 2010
The Box
You can strip away all of the Kelly flourishes -- Steward's creepy “employees” and the sci-fi elements they bring to the movie -- and still wind up with a relatable human drama about upward mobility.
Monday, November 9 2009
The Box
The Box feigns straightforwardness for half an hour or so, but Richard Kelly only uses the set-up as the firm handle from which he can fly off.
Wednesday, November 14 2007
Southland Tales
The very incoherence of Southland Tales is something like an argument, its many pieces and pronouncements a deconstructive challenge to world order.
Thursday, February 17 2005
Donnie Darko: Director's Cut (2001)
The problem embodied by Donnie is at once mundane and painfully special, the dilemma of fate vs. free will, laced though with unanswered questions of identity and responsibility.
