Recent Film Features

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Wednesday, July 15 2009

The Phantom Speaks! An Interview with Cult Movie Critic Joe Kane

By Steven Ward

Joe Kane writes about the fun stuff on the fringes -- low budget horror movies and action movies, exploitation movies, cult movies, B movies.

Tuesday, July 14 2009

“The World Will Know”: Shohreh for Soraya

By Matt Mazur

Iranian expatriate and acclaimed actress Shohreh Aghdashloo talks to PopMatters about The Stoning of Soraya M., the role of women in Iran and ongoing importance of her political activism, especially in the wake of recent events.

Monday, June 29 2009

2009 Silverdocs Documentary Festival

By Chris Barsanti

Silverdocs 2009 was a rewarding and refreshing event, offering classic and independent documentaries and previewing several that will crop up over the next year or two on TV and art house screens.

Friday, June 26 2009

The Futility of Truth or Reconciliation in Waltz with Bashir

By Luke Z. Fenchel

Although it examines culpability and responsibility in service of truth and reconciliation, this film fails to address the structures of power, and arguably perpetuates the very atrocities that it sets out to condemn.

Monday, June 15 2009

Crayton Robey

By Christian John Wikane

The Boys in the Band defined a moment in LGBT history. Crayton Robey explores that history in Making the Boys, which debuted at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival.

Friday, June 12 2009

Love Your Big Brother: What Orwell’s ‘1984’ Tells Us About 2009

By Nav Purewal

George Orwell’s seminal book can equip its readers with the intellectual apparatus necessary to see through the routine mendacity and stupefying barrage of euphemism that plagues contemporary political life.

Thursday, June 11 2009

“I Am Mr. Right?”: The Manic Pixie Dream Guy

By Libby Cudmore

Where in the movies were the dreamy tropes who wanted to pull a girl from the depths of her post grad-school crisis and lived for nothing more than doing a silly dance for her?

Thursday, June 4 2009

Clint Eastwood: American Icon Collection

By Michael Barrett

Again in the Eastwood oeuvre, a man who thinks he's in control, and especially around women, finds out he's not quite.

Thursday, May 28 2009

Independent Film Festival of Boston 2009

By Jake Meaney

A perfect occasion to get drunk on film, to fall in love with the movies, to reassert the primacy of film as the last central universal art form.

Wednesday, May 27 2009

La Grande Bouffe & Tales of Ordinary Madness

By Thomas Britt

La Grande Bouffe and Tales of Ordinary Madness are products of a dark worldview. Neither offers solutions about how to improve a disintegrating society.

Friday, May 22 2009

Star Trek’s Lost Legacy of Literary Pretension

By Kit MacFarlane

What's a Kirk without Earth-poet Shakespeare? Has the awkward Star Trek quotation spat its last breath? Trek's lost legacy of literary pretension.

Thursday, May 21 2009

Forbidden Hollywood’s William Wellman: The Forgotten Man

By Chris Robé

The 1934 Production Code’s puritanical stance towards sexuality is often highlighted by contemporary historians, but it also held extremely reactionary political mandates that forbade movie representations of conflicts between capital and labor.

Wednesday, May 20 2009

The Beginning of a New Age: Stephan Elliot’s ‘Easy Virtue’

By Matt Mazur

Matt Mazur talks with the filmmakers behind the big screen adaptation of Noël Coward's classic play Easy Virtue about the challenges of translating Coward to film, the strengths of gay filmmakers and, yes, Kristin Scott Thomas.

Friday, May 15 2009

Summer Hours: An Interview with Olivier Assayas

By Matt Mazur

Assayas’ newest film Summer Hours, and in fact his entire oeuvre, is consistently magnanimous, in representing a universe of real women and colorful female characters of all ages, races, and socio-economic backgrounds.

Friday, May 8 2009

Adoration: In the Eye of the Beholder

By Matt Mazur

Atom Egoyan talks to PopMatters about his newest film, Adoration, an intelligent coming-of-age tale that won’t be making it to the local multiplex anytime soon, but makes for a refreshing, welcome addition to the impending sea of American-made summertime garbage.

Thursday, May 7 2009

Near Misses and Gems: 2009 Tribeca Film Festival

By Chris Barsanti

Selecting just 85 feature films for screening, this year's Tribeca Film Festival increased the quality quotient, cutting the number of embarrassing failures that once studded the schedule like a minefield.

Wednesday, May 6 2009

Who Needs an Oscar Anyway?: Mickey Rourke’s Homeboy

By Kit MacFarlane

Dismissed as too depressing in 1988, Mickey Rourke's self-penned turn in Homeboy brings an aura of sorrow more nuanced and poetic than that of his celebrated performance in The Wrestler.

Tuesday, May 5 2009

“Timely Look”: Interview with Oliver Irving, director of How to Be

By Renee Scolaro Mora

When Oliver Irving began writing How to Be in 2004, he couldn't know that when the film finally premiered at Slamdance four years later, his timing -- and casting of Robert Pattinson as his lead -- would be so fortuitous.

Thursday, April 30 2009

Summer of Same: The 2009 PopMatters Summer Movie Preview

By Bill Gibron

It will be a Summer of Same: same old franchises seeing multi-million dollar updates; same old actors in rote roles; directors digging deep into their cinematic bags of tricks, hoping they can find meaning out of one more mainstream paycheck. [May | June | July | August]

Tuesday, April 21 2009

Dirty Harry: Nothing Wrong with Shooting the Right People

By Marco Lanzagorta

The year Dirty Harry was released (1971) saw several demonstrations of angry cops questioning why criminals had very solid constitutional protections that often interfered with law enforcement work.

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