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DVDs
Monday, December 14 2009
By Christel Loar
Life on Mars: Series 2 is a prime example of how a TV series should be done. Every element, including the decision to end after 2 series, is meant to add to the show's overall brilliance.
By John Grassi
This documentary reveals Chanel as a critical figure in 20th Century culture, a visionary designer, brilliant businesswoman, and unrepentant romantic.
By Kayley Thomas
Terminator Salvation:The future begins? The future might have been better left a looming threat.
Friday, December 11 2009
By George Russell
Helmut Newton and his models are undressed for us in this reissue of the superb 1988 documentary.
By Sarah Boslaugh
Lovers of all things Brontë will want to check out this BBC box set.
Thursday, December 10 2009
By Andrew Gilstrap
Santa Claus, post-apocalyptic warriors, mad scientists, and alien spawn: another top-notch MST3K collection.
By Terrence Butcher
Within the rural French countryside depicted here is a stubborn, quite heartening, uniquely Gallic iconoclasm.
Wednesday, December 9 2009
By Ben Travers
A modern-day western in search of a moral message to match its morbid mood.
By Alistair Dickinson
For the most part, it's a reality show like any other, filled with beautiful people and awkwardly-scripted plot-lines. On the other hand, it's the rare reality family that actually acts like a real one.
Tuesday, December 8 2009
By Ben Travers
Eddie Murphy may still be in need of a box office hit, but this enjoyable family film should help him gain back a little respect.
By Michael Buening
Everything is cinema, unfortunately, in Masahiro Kobayashi's existential crime comedy.
Monday, December 7 2009
By Thomas Britt
A definitive collection of this sort is an essential item for any DVD collector interested in British television or sitcoms in general.
By Alistair Dickinson
Jackie Chan’s 2004 return to Hong Kong cinema is a late career attempt to gain some critical respect for taking on a dramatic role.
Friday, December 4 2009
By Christel Loar
"This is a different thing, it's spontaneous and it's called wit." Indeed, this is exemplary of the way to make a near-perfect DVD set of the prime example of a near-perfect comedy.
By W. Scott Poole
Run from your lives from Godzilla 1998, a Hollywood monstrosity so absurd that it makes the film’s title song, Puff Daddy’s cover of Led Zeppelin’s classic “Kashmir”, seem like a good idea.
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Friday, November 20 2009
By PopMatters Staff
Today: Viva Pedro: The Almodovar Interview -- What could possibly be better than getting face time with one of the most legendary filmmakers of all-time? Almodóvar talks to PopMatters about his new film, Broken Embraces and much more.
Friday, November 6 2009
By Alistair Dickinson
These five films from the golden-era of the legendary Nikkatsu studio shows off the never-ending ways Japanese filmmakers were able to combine the best elements of pulp and epic Japanese storytelling.
Friday, October 23 2009
By PopMatters Staff
PopMatters celebrates its birthday this week with a series of essays on cultural changes over our 10-year lifespan. Today: Mark Reynolds on "The Long and Short of Long-Form Journalism" and Nikki Tranter on "Exit from Nowheresville: My 10 Years with PopMatters".
Monday, December 7 2009
By L.B. Jeffries
Philip K. Dick’s fiction is a defense of the validity of video games because despite the fact that they are not real, his stories argue that there is still something valid in the artificial.
(more Moving Pixels)
Thursday, December 3 2009
By Jennifer Makowsky
A scene shows Ryder blissfully tying up the manuscript and putting a rose under the string. That's rather like what Armstrong and the screenwriters did to the film: tied it up neatly with a pretty flower.
(more The Box Office Belletrist)
Wednesday, December 2 2009
By Michael Barrett
These two new DVDs help us take a look back at forward thinkers, and although no one will like all these films equally, the whole is an experience not only edifying but, at its most radical, even pleasurable.
(more Canon Fodder)
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