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The PopMatters Summer 2008 Movie Preview By PopMatters Staff [30.Apr.08] :. PopMatters looks at each month that makes up this yearly caravan of summer moviegoing, picking out the winners and wastes of time. Today: Remembrances of Summers Past: 40 Years of Movie Memories: Highlights from Gibron's popcorn moviegoing history.

Music Agent Provocateur: Madonna’s Super Hard Candy Pop By Matt Mazur [29.Apr.08] :. On her newest CD, Hard Candy, the legend sounds stronger and more confident -- pushed into the new directions by her posse of guest producers and musicians.

Ike Reilly By PopMatters Staff [28.Apr.08] :. Songwriter Ike Reilly tells PopMatters 20 Questions about firm abs and buttocks and the best sitcom, ever.

Music Always Trying to Waste Me: The Rolling Stones’ “Cocksucker Blues” By Colin Fleming [25.Apr.08] :. Onan rejoices. Dionysus despairs. Robert Frank, the Rolling Stones, and Cocksucker Blues -- a polarizing document for upwards of 35-years, now -- unreleased, and perhaps unreleasable.

The Fall By Ian Mathers [25.Apr.08] :. The frightening, wonderful world of Mark E. Smith and the Fall offers decades of music and dozens of albums to sift through for the one that best represents what they are all about.

Books Comfortably Numb: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd By Michael E. Ross [24.Apr.08] :. Like any sound biographer, Blake is the fly on the wall — but one careful not to breathe the smoke in the air. What could have been Pink Floyd hagiography has the weight and distance of clear-headed scholarship, charitable but candid.

Books Painfully Masculine: An Interview with Benjamin Percy By G. Christopher Williams [24.Apr.08] :. With the rise of the metrosexual and the fall of the patriarchal society, some men, lost in a gray zone, compensate by joining Gold’s Gym, screaming at Packers games, and driving big-ass Hummers

Books The Ten-Cent Plague: Revisiting the 20th-Century Comic Book Scare By Jenny Carlson [23.Apr.08] :. In this illuminating work, critic David Hajdu revisits the boycotts, bans, and congressional hearings that disenfranchised hundreds of artists and ended the golden days of the comic book industry.

Music Anyone Can Play Guitar: The Replacements on Twin/Tone, 1981-1984 By Zeth Lundy [22.Apr.08] :. With four albums for the independent Minneapolis label Twin/Tone, the 'Mats rendered the hierarchies and caste system of the rock world irrelevant by remaking rock 'n' roll as an anonymous force.

Music The Long Road to Hoo Ha: An Interview with Supergrass By Pablo Amor [21.Apr.08] :. Only one band survived the highs and lows of the Britpop era. We talked about this endurance, a sixth album, and other lifespan issues with Danny Goffey, the one and only drummer for... yes, Supergrass.

Bruce Campbell By PopMatters Staff [21.Apr.08] :. Bruce Campbell, that handsome man (when he's not wearing horror film make-up) with that incredible chin whom you know you've seen before -- you've seen just about everywhere -- appears here, too, in PopMatters' 20 Questions.

Film On Independent Vision, Art and Democracy: The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival 2008 By Jyllian Gunther, Kevin Greer and Isaac Miller [18.Apr.08] :. Full Frame’s exclusive focus on documentary films makes it gravitate toward academic and humanitarian affiliations, providing badly needed brain-stimulation for our otherwise comatose democracy.

Music Chasing Honey Bees: The Jesus and Mary Chain and the Post-Masterpiece Struggle By Matthew Fiander [18.Apr.08] :. Their first album, Psychocandy, was a classic. And as new reissues of the Jesus and Mary Chain's first five records are released, we see the story of a band proving there is life after a masterpiece.

Multimedia Accepting the Absurd via Super Smash Bros. Brawl By Erik Hinton [17.Apr.08] :. While video games will always adopt varying levels of verisimilitude, the Wii presents a novel challenge to the conventional consciousness, and that is an attack on realism.

Alan Wilkis [Brooklyn, NY] By Dan Raper [17.Apr.08] :. Unlike many of his fellow Brooklynites, whose boundary-pushing is an aesthetic in and of itself, Alan Wilkis has no fear of pop.

Film State of the Slasher Address By Stephen Graham Jones [16.Apr.08] :. Author Stephen Graham Jones looks into the disappointments of the Prom Night remake, finds pause to reflect back on the past of the slasher film, and sees a glimmer of hope for the future.

Books Who Says Libraries Are Just About Books? By Lara Killian [16.Apr.08] :. Quiet, Please author Scott Douglas speaks out about the future of libraries, being played by Oprah in the movie version, and his recent library-themed wedding.

TV Twilight of the Leading Ladies? By Chris Harnick [15.Apr.08] :. As cancellations force more alpha female characters off the air, the question arises: Are we seeing television audiences and studios turn away from strong women as leads?

Music Festival Nation: Avoiding the Post-Modern Buzzkill By Mitchell Bandur [14.Apr.08] :. As we near the summer music festival season, throngs of sunblock-wielding concertgoers prepare to once again brave hot temperatures and crowded venues. PopMatters sifts through the myriad happenings to offer a primer for the summer.

David Baldacci By PopMatters Staff [14.Apr.08] :. Best-selling author David Baldacci talks with PopMatters 20 Questions about the importance of hallucinogens, hit men, and Herman Munster -- and yeah, other important things, too.

Film State of Grace: How Buddhist Teachings Transformed a Maximum Security Prison in Alabama By Matt Mazur [11.Apr.08] :. In her new documentary, Jenny Phillips frames the daily, shackled grind of prisoners' lives with social injustices, but also investigates what it is like to be a prisoner doing hard time in the South choosing to practice guided Buddhist meditation techniques.

Music Survival of the Fittest: The Hard Country of John Anderson By Dave Heaton [11.Apr.08] :. Anderson is a distinctive country music artist whose ample, if intermittent, hits have not given him the hallowed stature or name recognition of many of his contemporaries.

Now Hear This: Kevin Grivois [Tahoe, California] By Christian John Wikane [10.Apr.08] :. A superstar in Europe, an unknown in America. Kevin Grivois (aka Ké) remembers the "strange world" of his major label ascent and why an election year is bringing him back to the spotlight.

TV Lest You Be Judged By Michael Abernethy [10.Apr.08] :. Watching these courtroom dramas had me wondering why people choose to bicker over their disagreements on television, particularly in front of judges whose impartiality is questionable.

Music A Love Inseparable from False Hope By Emily Thomas [9.Apr.08] :. Anxious as the first time we saw him live, grateful for his fragile presence, we come to terms with Morrissey and perpetual disappointment.

Charlton Heston: 1200 B.C. - 2022 A.D. By Stephen Bracco [9.Apr.08] :. Though the late actor failed to stem the liberal hippie apocalypse in his trio of 1960s sci-fi classics, he did find a true love in guns.

Comics Spidey Turns Slacker?!: Great Power, Not So Much Responsibility By Lana Cooper [8.Apr.08] :. As Marvel Comics turns back the clock on Spider-Man, returning him to the struggling single life, questions erupt about the relationship of hero to audience.

Books The Solitary Vice: Remove the ‘Guilt’ from ‘Guilty Pleasures’ By Mikita Brottman [7.Apr.08] :. PopMatters unveils its first book, The Solitary Vice: Against Reading, by Mikita Brottman, in this first excerpt and author interview. Brottman wonders, Just what's so great about reading, anyway?

Jena Malone By PopMatters Staff [7.Apr.08] :. In-between The Ruins (just opened in US theatres) and The Go-Getter, opening in June, Jena paused while on tour to address PopMatters' 20 Questions.

Books Beyond Love: The Wisdom of Love in the Time of Cholera By Marcelo Ballvé [4.Apr.08] :. Gabriel García Márquez knew that love, like cholera, strikes unexpectedly, renders the body powerless, and is blind to class or race.

Judgment Night: Music from the Motion Picture (1993) By James Greene, Jr. [4.Apr.08] :. A look at the album that may have spawned rap rock and that supplies the missing link between Biohazard and Emilio Estevez.

Music Live Fast, Die Young, or Get Off the Stage By Judy Berman [3.Apr.08] :. Why wouldn't they burn out instead of fade away? Berman examines the sad spectacle of punk-rock reunions and shows how they destroy the two elements that actually made punk attractive: sex appeal and impermanence.

Salim Nourallah [Dallas, Texas] By Justin Cober-Lake [3.Apr.08] :. Despite intense familiy struggles, Salim Nourallah has truly blossomed into his own as one of the most talented musicians in a too-often overlooked scene.

Visual Arts Thaw: Russian Art from Glasnost to the Present By Marijeta Bozovic [2.Apr.08] :. Fears and rumors of increasing state control insinuate that the most recent Russian thaw, as represented at this exhibit at the Chelsea Art Museum in New York, might turn out to be just that: a limited period of freedom.

Music Soulja Boy: In Loco Parentis By Drew Hinshaw [2.Apr.08] :. As the genre collects some long-term history, hip-hop is starting to suffer from an age-confusion issue, embodied nowhere better than in the self-made teen sensation Soulja Boy.

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