Features
Tuesday, January 10 2012
The Guilty Pleasure Films of 2011
You may snicker when looking over this list, but these are the films of 2011 that made us feel guilty for loving them so -- and love them we do.
Friday, March 25 2011
Five Hot Chicks and the MPAA, Why Can't This Be Europe? Zack Snyder's 'Sucker Punch'
PopMatters was in Beverly Hills for the Sucker Punch press junket, and sat down with among others, Director Zack Snyder, Producer Deborah Snyder, and stars Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone, Vanessa Hudgens, and Jamie Chung.
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.
Friday, January 8 2010
The Best DVDs of 2009
Let's face it, when the content inside is less than meaningful, how better to market your particular movie than with plenty of digital packaging bells and whistles. Many of our 2009 choices reflect this strategy. Others are great all by themselves.
Wednesday, January 6 2010
The Best Male Film Performances of 2009
Certainly, the multi-millionaire boy's club represented here is heavy on the dramatics and light on the more 'amusing' fare. But if you really give this list a meaningful perusal you'll see a few genre and jokester surprises along the way.
Reviews
Tuesday, August 9 2011
'Sucker Punch': Sound and Fury Signifying Nothing -- a Furious Sounding Nothing
Though visually striking and stylistically ambitious, this bombastic, juvenile genre mashup is a mostly discordant, occasionally incoherent, but always compulsively watchable, mess. Just check your brain at the door...
Friday, March 25 2011
'Sucker Punch': Amped Up
The girls look striking and sexy while fighting robots and dragons in short skirts and piled-on makeup, sauntering into battle, guns in one hand and samurai swords in the other.
Friday, March 6 2009
Watchmen
For Rorschach, there are clear lines between good and evil, and in this he is the most traditional of the superheroes in Watchmen.
Monday, August 13 2007
Three Hundred
300's penchant for drama and exaggeration is proof that a far-reaching vision and hyperbole can come together to tell a much better story than one based purely on historical facts.
Friday, March 9 2007
300 (2007)
Spartans! Simple and resonant, this call to identity comes up frequently in 300, the film based on Frank Miller's graphic novel.
Blogs
Tuesday, March 29 2011
Glam Slamdunk: In Defense of 'Sucker Punch'
Sucker Punch is one of the rare films that finds a specific means of vizualization and runs like hell with it. It is literally unlike any movie made in the last few years.
Friday, March 25 2011
'Sucker Punch'; The Zack Snyder Experience
More Red Bull-pumped special-effects demo reel than film, which isn't to say it's entirely bad.
Tuesday, October 19 2010
Who Are the Next Horror Movie Maestros?
Perhaps it's too soon in the career arc to write off some of these wannabes as less than meaningful maestros. As we wait, however, the void continues to grow...and grow...
Tuesday, October 12 2010
Can Snyder Make Superman Super Again?
For all his ability with scope and eye for the epic, hiring Zack Snyder might not be the 100 percent right decision.
Thursday, September 23 2010
Another Zack Attack
How did he do it? How did Zack Snyder go from motion picture nobody to helmer of hits like Dawn of the Dead and 300?
News
Monday, March 21 2011
Girl power: Action heroines pack a 'Punch'
NEW YORK — Black undies? Or white? It was a choice that confronted writer-director Zack Snyder while making "Sucker Punch," a mostly female action-fantasy starring…
Tuesday, October 5 2010
Zack Snyder is tapped to re-launch Superman
LOS ANGELES — Zack Snyder, the director of the edgy comic-book films "300" and "Watchmen," will direct the Warner Bros. revival of Superman, the first…
Monday, March 16 2009
'Watchmen' challenges ratings' value
It's the one point on which "Watchmen" audiences can agree: Director Zack Snyder's slavishly faithful adaptation of the graphic novel is not best experienced in…
Monday, March 9 2009
Movie execs finally discover that audiences want to be entertained
Why does Hollywood make so many comic-book movies like "The Dark Knight" and "Watchmen?" Why does Hollywood make so many silly comedies like "Madea Goes…
Friday, March 6 2009
‘Watchmen' role had Billy Crudup turning blue in the face (and everywhere else)
To an outside observer, there is no rhyme or reason for the way Billy Crudup selects acting roles. There are times when he seems to…
