Features
Thursday, January 6 2011
The Best DVDs of 2010
As the medium continues to struggle with significance in the steady "streaming" of the 21st Century, here are PopMatters' picks for the best the format(s) have to offer.
Friday, January 8 2010
The Best 30 Films of 2009
In one of the rarest rating periods ever, several on the staff could successfully argue for any of the Top 30 choices as a potential number one. While not all classics, they remain the consistent cream of 2009's crop.
Tuesday, January 13 2009
Off the Radar - The Top 30 DVDs of 2008
Oddly enough, while the major studios continue scratching their heads over how to sell yet another new format (Blu-ray) to disinterested consumers, several outside distributors made sure that this would be a digital year to remember.
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.
Reviews
Friday, May 25 2012
'Moonrise Kingdom': Storms and Conformity
This bit of violence suggests what's at stake for the opposite sides, for the fugitives and those who mean to bring them back: how to maintain community and also value resistance.
Thursday, January 5 2012
Be True to Your School and to Yourself: 'Rushmore'
Wes Anderson's 1998 masterpiece is a sharply observed coming-of-age film, a hilarious fish-out-of-water farce, and a bittersweet tale of unrequited love.
Friday, October 8 2010
'The Darjeeling Limited': Wes Anderson's Affections are Windows to the Soul
The confined spaces here are perfect for Wes Anderson's precise framing, cannily exploiting any claustrophobia some viewers may feel in his just-so compositions and careful camera rotations.
Tuesday, March 23 2010
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Wes Anderson movies are always about the little details -- the wallpapers, the ties -- and stop-motion animation itself is nothing if not an amalgam of millions of little details.
Friday, November 13 2009
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Intergenerational dilemmas -- how to be foxes, to be individuals and also parts of communities -- form the complicated heart of Fantastic Mr. Fox.
Blogs
Thursday, May 17 2012
Cannes 2012: Day 1 - Wes Anderson’s 'Moonrise Kingdom'
Opening the festival with Moonrise Kingdom, beloved indie icon Wes Anderson’s first live action film in five years, only buoyed the camaraderie felt by Cannes attendees.
Tuesday, March 23 2010
Wes Anderson Family Values
Wes Anderson should have been an author. Though he works in film, he remains a true man of letters at his core. There is a…
Wednesday, November 25 2009
'Mr. Fox' is Indeed 'Fantastic'
Roald Dahl has always been the anti-Dr. Seuss. For all the lessons illustrated and celebrated by the late Theodor Geisel, his UK compatriot took a…
News
Friday, April 20 2012
Cronenberg, Daniels give Cannes lineup a North American spin
LOS ANGELES — The Cannes Film Festival is set to feature one of the richest North American slates in years, as Lee Daniels, David Cronenberg,…
Thursday, October 18 2007
Owen Wilson: Where does he go from here?
A little more than an hour through Wes Anderson's new comedy-drama "The Darjeeling Limited," Owen Wilson -- playing Francis, one of three brothers on a…
