Recent Film Columns

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Thursday, August 11 2005

‘Chick Lit’ Overload

By Jennifer Makowsky

Makowsky laments the continuing influence of 'Chick Lit' in both bookstores and movie houses worldwide.

(more The Box Office Belletrist)

Monday, August 8 2005

Mr. Cent Goes to Hollywood

By Amos Posner

To be fair, with musicals out of vogue, rappers as a group are more intrinsically prepared to handle movie roles than other pop stars.

(more Stale Popcorn)

Wednesday, August 3 2005

Location, Location, Location

By Simon Wood

Bricks and mortar will unavoidably symbolize different things to different people, and they are very rarely going to coincide.

(more To Be Seen)

Thursday, July 28 2005

The Undead Underground

By Bill Gibron

Although Hollywood might have rotted the zombie film through insipid cliché, there's plenty of 'fresh meat' available from these straight-to-video auteurs.

(more The Outré Oeuvre)

Wednesday, July 27 2005

How to Find a Mate in Five TV Shows or Less

By Jodie Janella Horn

Scientists have spent a great deal of time deconstructing physical desirability among humans. But all they had to do was watch 100 Hottest Hotties and call it a day.

(more The Armchair Anthropologist)

Friday, July 22 2005

Keepin’ It Real(ity)

By Mark Harris

Without an acknowledgment of race, reality TV can never be 'real'; it can only be '-ity'.

(more Yelling at the Screen)

Wednesday, July 13 2005

‘WOW’ of the Worlds

By Jennifer Makowsky

The 2005 War of the Worlds may be one of the few times where the credits 'based on the book by...' actually has a legitimate meaning.

(more The Box Office Belletrist)

Monday, July 11 2005

Fighting Hollywood’s Super-Relapse

By Amos Posner

Director-driven fare is back in Hollywood vogue, and one of the great joys of this new auteurist era is watching it spill into comic book adaptations.

(more Stale Popcorn)

Friday, July 1 2005

Spoon-feeding Glamour: Hollywood Knows Best

By Simon Wood

The mainstream movie fan, in all reality, simply does not want to watch actors, no matter how talented, that they neither recognize nor care about.

(more To Be Seen)

Wednesday, June 29 2005

There’s no ‘TV’ in ‘Team’

By Jodie Janella Horn

If the degree to which art imitates life can be a measure of greatness then The Office is king of the workplace comedy.

(more The Armchair Anthropologist)

Tuesday, June 21 2005

Gray Like Me

By Mark Harris

We grays won't overcome until that one special gray actor or actress steps forward to show us as living, breathing entities with more to offer than a healthy head of hair and corporate hireability.

(more Yelling at the Screen)

Tuesday, June 14 2005

Re-Judging a Book by Its Cinematic Cover

By Jennifer Makowsky

Like most bibliophiles, I often cringe when a favorite book is transformed for the big screen. It doesn't mean I won't give it a chance though.

(more The Box Office Belletrist)

Monday, June 6 2005

Hollywood’s Battle with Depression

By Amos Posner

It's war to see who really came to America's rescue after the big crash of '29. And the cinematic suspects are a boxer, a ghost, and a horse... of course.

(more Stale Popcorn)

Thursday, June 2 2005

High School of Hard Knocks

By Jodie Janella Horn

One of the benefits of no longer being a teenager is that I don't care if the high school dramas I watch are realistic because I no longer expect to be validated by television.

(more The Armchair Anthropologist)

Friday, May 27 2005

Everything I Need to Know About Being Black I Learned From Kenny Rogers

By Mark Harris

For PopMatters TV/Film Columnist Mark Harris, being a minority in a majority world created an ironic, lifelong battle against being force-fed at the teat of popular culture.

(more Yelling at the Screen)

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