Popular Voices, Cultural Matters 2009-07-05T16:00:54Z Copyright (c) 2009, PopMatters.com ExpressionEngine tag:popmatters.com,2009:07:03 tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/short-ends-and-leader/17.107672 2009-07-05T13:20:18Z 2009-07-05T13:20:18Z Bill Gibron Consider the short film. Actually, consider the concept of the short film first. When people hear the label, they automatically think of a couple of completely different and competing conceits. The... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/marginal-utility/9.107655 2009-07-04T21:13:07Z 2009-07-04T21:13:07Z Rob Horning New York... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/short-ends-and-leader/17.107638 2009-07-04T14:55:41Z 2009-07-04T14:55:41Z Bill Gibron What, exactly, happened to Renny Harlin? How did he go from hotshot newbie with an entire career before him to a cinematic afterthought left to helm horrid hackjobs like The Covenant and... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/notes-from-the-road/27.107600 2009-07-04T14:45:32Z 2009-07-04T14:45:32Z John Bohannon tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/marginal-utility/9.107620 2009-07-03T23:39:13Z 2009-07-03T23:39:13Z Rob Horning tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/short-ends-and-leader/17.107618 2009-07-03T19:32:15Z 2009-07-03T19:32:15Z Bill Gibron As writers, we are taught to avoid clichés. Avoid them like the plague. Avoid them like red-headed step-children at a reunion. As a literary shortcut they supposedly show sloppiness and a lack... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/media-center/15.107615 2009-07-03T13:24:53Z 2009-07-03T13:24:53Z PopMatters Staff tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/sound-affects/34.107601 2009-07-03T13:00:15Z 2009-07-03T13:00:15Z Tommy Marx tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/moving-pixels/35.107599 2009-07-03T12:00:00Z 2009-07-03T12:00:00Z Nick Dinicola tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.107611 2009-07-03T11:00:01Z 2009-07-03T11:00:01Z Cynthia Fuchs Pablo Trapero's film slows down following the splattery whirlwind of plot pieces that gets Julia inside prison. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.107566 2009-07-03T11:00:00Z 2009-07-03T11:00:00Z Cynthia Fuchs Estilo Hip Hop, Guerrillero explains, "Rap has become my political weapon of choice." ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/short-ends-and-leader/17.107571 2009-07-02T15:08:01Z 2009-07-02T15:08:01Z Bill Gibron Legend has it that when Italian maestro Michelangelo Antonioni came to America to make his second English language film (after the monster success of Blow-up), he was shocked by the backlash... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/media-center/15.107570 2009-07-02T12:36:06Z 2009-07-02T12:36:06Z Thomas Britt tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/marginal-utility/9.107557 2009-07-02T12:30:15Z 2009-07-02T12:30:15Z Rob Horning tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.107565 2009-07-02T08:39:58Z 2009-07-02T08:39:58Z tjmHolden tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/short-ends-and-leader/17.107558 2009-07-01T20:42:10Z 2009-07-01T20:42:10Z Bill Gibron Sometimes a movie makes a decision so dumbfounding, or takes a narrative path so peculiar, that it can't fully recuperate from such a lame left turn. It happens all the time in horror, from the false... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/media-center/15.107534 2009-07-01T15:00:33Z 2009-07-01T15:00:33Z PopMatters Staff SONG LIST 01 Long Gone 02 Meet and Greet 03 Too Late to Think 04 Stars and Smiles 05 The Right Place 06... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/short-ends-and-leader/17.107535 2009-07-01T12:41:57Z 2009-07-01T12:41:57Z Bill Gibron Most independent filmmakers lack balls. Oh sure, they think that by tackling their lingering interpersonal issues, traumas tripped by memories of failed potty training and the lack of parental love,... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/moving-pixels/35.107527 2009-07-01T12:00:00Z 2009-07-01T12:00:00Z G. Christopher Williams With a lot of hard work and elbow grease, not only can one survive, but the individual can eventually land the princess. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/media-center/15.107512 2009-07-01T11:40:09Z 2009-07-01T11:40:09Z Matt Mazur tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.107528 2009-07-01T11:00:00Z 2009-07-01T11:00:00Z Cynthia Fuchs Sensational and turbulent, the relationship between John Dillinger and Melvin Purvis sold newspapers and attracted newsreel audiences. It was good for business. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.107530 2009-07-01T11:00:00Z 2009-07-01T11:00:00Z Renee Scolaro Mora Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs alters the pattern established by the previous two films, focusing not on the herd but on action-packed, 3-D adventure. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/media-center/15.93442 2009-07-01T04:59:14Z 2009-07-01T04:59:14Z Chris Catania Welcome to Scokland.... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/notes-from-the-road/27.107389 2009-07-01T02:00:33Z 2009-07-01T02:00:33Z PopMatters Staff tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/notes-from-the-road/27.107508 2009-06-30T22:45:00Z 2009-06-30T22:45:00Z Thomas Hauner tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/short-ends-and-leader/17.107506 2009-06-30T21:30:03Z 2009-06-30T21:30:03Z Bill Gibron tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/marginal-utility/9.107503 2009-06-30T16:12:29Z 2009-06-30T16:12:29Z Rob Horning tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/media-center/15.107491 2009-06-30T14:53:22Z 2009-06-30T14:53:22Z PopMatters Staff tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/media-center/15.107490 2009-06-30T13:28:14Z 2009-06-30T13:28:14Z PopMatters Staff SONG LIST 01 I'm Going Away 02 Drive to Dallas 03 The End Is... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/crazed-by-the-music/10.107448 2009-06-30T12:30:36Z 2009-06-30T12:30:36Z Jason Gross tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/moving-pixels/35.107432 2009-06-30T12:00:00Z 2009-06-30T12:00:00Z L.B. Jeffries tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.107484 2009-06-30T11:00:00Z 2009-06-30T11:00:00Z Cynthia Fuchs Allusive and abstract, Beyond Hatred works something like a puzzle, examining the murder of a young gay man while never showing him or his killers. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/short-ends-and-leader/17.107480 2009-06-30T05:13:13Z 2009-06-30T05:13:13Z Bill Gibron We all have our causes. Animal rights. Kinky sex. Health. Gay and/or National pride. Religious zealotry. Artistic expression. Self-actualization. And within said philosophies are a million individual... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/reprint/33.102285 2009-06-29T19:00:31Z 2009-06-29T19:00:31Z Diepiriye Kuku Things Fall Apart reduce men to husbands, and women to wives. Even progressive movements like the struggles converging on marriage... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/marginal-utility/9.107468 2009-06-29T17:17:14Z 2009-06-29T17:17:14Z Rob Horning tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/sound-affects/34.107153 2009-06-29T16:00:14Z 2009-06-29T16:00:14Z Chris Conaton tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/media-center/15.107459 2009-06-29T15:30:12Z 2009-06-29T15:30:12Z PopMatters Staff Far that dropped last week and is aiming for mainstream music... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/short-ends-and-leader/17.107460 2009-06-29T15:07:18Z 2009-06-29T15:07:18Z Bill Gibron It's official - the great cinematic experiment known as the video game adaptation is an outright failure. There's no denying it. Just look at the evidence. There have been so many bad examples of the... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/notes-from-the-road/27.107274 2009-06-29T15:00:42Z 2009-06-29T15:00:42Z Kirstie Shanley tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/channel-surfing/47.107170 2009-06-29T14:00:38Z 2009-06-29T14:00:38Z Rachel Kipp It's 10 p.m. -- do you know where your teenager is? The parents of NYC Prep probably don't. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/media-center/15.107458 2009-06-29T13:54:01Z 2009-06-29T13:54:01Z PopMatters Staff Veckatimest Friday night on Jimmy Fallon's show. Mike Newmark said of the song that it "reaches back to a fading glitzy nostalgia with... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/feature/21.107293 2009-06-29T11:15:14Z 2009-06-29T11:15:14Z 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. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.107444 2009-06-29T11:00:00Z 2009-06-29T11:00:00Z Michael Abernethy HBO's new series might easily be titled Hung: Better Living through Prostitution. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.107452 2009-06-29T11:00:00Z 2009-06-29T11:00:00Z Cynthia Fuchs Liz Garbus' documentary makes its case for free speech methodically, with examples ranging from notorious to obscure, that show the censoring of communications that lean both left and right. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/short-ends-and-leader/17.107433 2009-06-28T18:10:25Z 2009-06-28T18:10:25Z Bill Gibron It's amazing how quickly illustrators and designers forget that animation is art. For most of them, the concept of cartooning and commerciality are so closely linked that, as long as it looks good... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/channel-surfing/47.107319 2009-06-28T11:20:38Z 2009-06-28T11:20:38Z George Tiller Doctor Who: The Next Doctor, the Doctor (David Tennant), arrives in London on Christmas Eve, 1851. As the Doctor exits the TARDIS he finds himself in scene out of Dickens. It’s... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/short-ends-and-leader/17.107422 2009-06-28T04:36:56Z 2009-06-28T04:36:56Z Bill Gibron tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/media-center/15.107343 2009-06-26T20:00:11Z 2009-06-26T20:00:11Z Matt Mazur tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/notes-from-the-road/27.107360 2009-06-26T19:15:20Z 2009-06-26T19:15:20Z Karen Zarker & Sarah Zupko Words by Karen Zarker and Pictures by Sarah Zupko ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/media-center/15.107342 2009-06-26T18:30:20Z 2009-06-26T18:30:20Z Matt Mazur tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/graphically-speaking/40.107359 2009-06-26T17:02:16Z 2009-06-26T17:02:16Z shathley Q The Fantastic Four was always about the costumes, as Reed Richards confesses to his daughter Val. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/media-center/15.107268 2009-06-26T17:00:18Z 2009-06-26T17:00:18Z Matt Mazur Hung being about a man's overly-large sexual organ, it looks like the whole affair will be stolen, in true HBO fashion, by women: Anne Heche and the... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/media-center/15.107283 2009-06-26T15:00:56Z 2009-06-26T15:00:56Z Matt Mazur Donnie Darko's Richard Kelly and the upcoming My Sister's Keeper, it looks as though Cameron Diaz might be back in fighting shape, in terms of choosing interesting... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/media-center/15.107139 2009-06-26T13:00:55Z 2009-06-26T13:00:55Z John Bohannon tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/feature/21.107142 2009-06-26T13:00:25Z 2009-06-26T13:00:25Z 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. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/moving-pixels/35.107311 2009-06-26T13:00:00Z 2009-06-26T13:00:00Z Nick Dinicola tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/short-ends-and-leader/17.107285 2009-06-26T12:45:53Z 2009-06-26T12:45:53Z Bill Gibron Up until this point, they had avoided responsibility. They lived like nomads, sequestered from family and friends while indulging in their own insular (and happy) homebound careers. But biology -... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.107328 2009-06-26T12:35:05Z 2009-06-26T12:35:05Z Cynthia Fuchs The gallant, educated, and sensitive outsider, will do right by Soraya, unlike the loathsome, fearful, and petty neighbors who killed her. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/short-ends-and-leader/17.107288 2009-06-26T12:30:02Z 2009-06-26T12:30:02Z Bill Gibron She's the alien in the other room, the otherworldly creature riddled with a mysterious disease that is, somehow, destroying not only her, but the entire family. Dad maintains an aura of disconnect,... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.107321 2009-06-26T12:25:40Z 2009-06-26T12:25:40Z Cynthia Fuchs Chéri's saga of bad parenting ostensibly has to do with designs and rituals of love. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.107304 2009-06-26T12:20:02Z 2009-06-26T12:20:02Z Renee Scolaro Mora If the adults in My Sister's Keeper are repeatedly compromised in the honesty department, the children seem to embody truth physically. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/media-center/15.107326 2009-06-26T11:46:50Z 2009-06-26T11:46:50Z PopMatters Staff Wilco: Wilco (The Album), Jeff Tweedy and the boys dropped by The Tonight Show on Wednesday to play this new... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/sound-affects/34.107325 2009-06-26T11:37:43Z 2009-06-26T11:37:43Z Jonathan Garrett Hotel California and Michael Jackson’s Thriller. And given how many soccer practices, guitar... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/feature/21.107324 2009-06-26T11:11:42Z 2009-06-26T11:11:42Z Evan Sawdey As the world mourns the passing of its definitive pop star, we must ask ourselves why his death means so much to us -- and where the legacy of one of the greatest entertainers of all time now stands. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.95250 2009-06-26T06:00:55Z 2009-06-26T06:00:55Z Terrence Butcher Dominick Dunne’s own story has all the requisite tragic-romantic elements of any personality he’s written about. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.107020 2009-06-26T06:00:43Z 2009-06-26T06:00:43Z Chad Berndtson It's good to have 'em back, warts and all. ]]>