Popular Voices, Cultural Matters 2009-11-22T14:07:56Z Copyright (c) 2009, PopMatters.com ExpressionEngine tag:popmatters.com,2009:11:20 tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/short-ends-and-leader/17.115558 2009-11-22T20:15:12Z 2009-11-22T20:15:12Z Diepiriye Kuku See A Patch of Blue (1965), staring Sidney Poitier who by that time was already a seasoned actor. Recall that Poitier only two years earlier, he was the first Black actor to win an academy... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/short-ends-and-leader/17.116614 2009-11-21T16:00:20Z 2009-11-21T16:00:20Z Valerie C. Gilbert When it comes to Hollywood and representation of African-American women, I propose that the present decade might be viewed as beginning with Monster’s Ball (2001) and ending with... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/short-ends-and-leader/17.116593 2009-11-20T21:30:13Z 2009-11-20T21:30:13Z Bill Gibron There is nothing worse than child abuse of any kind - physical, psychological, sexual. It's a demonstration of power perverted, of adults taking advantage of impressionable and vulnerable minors in... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/media-center/15.116605 2009-11-20T19:23:37Z 2009-11-20T19:23:37Z Tyler Gould La... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/channel-surfing/47.116578 2009-11-20T19:00:21Z 2009-11-20T19:00:21Z Ian Chant tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/sound-affects/34.116287 2009-11-20T16:45:37Z 2009-11-20T16:45:37Z AJ Ramirez Forget all about equality: this is one of the greatest productions of the 1980s. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/media-center/15.116565 2009-11-20T16:00:48Z 2009-11-20T16:00:48Z Mehan Jayasuriya tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/consuming-consumables/29.116583 2009-11-20T15:54:28Z 2009-11-20T15:54:28Z Bill Gibron tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/notes-from-the-road/27.116562 2009-11-20T15:05:38Z 2009-11-20T15:05:38Z Sachyn Mital El Ten Eleven + Controlled Storms: 18 November 2009 - The Khyber, Philadelphia / Words and Pictures by Sachyn Mital ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/media-center/15.116564 2009-11-20T15:00:29Z 2009-11-20T15:00:29Z Tyler Gould tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/notes-from-the-road/27.116560 2009-11-20T14:56:25Z 2009-11-20T14:56:25Z Mehan Jayasuriya Baroness: 18 November 2009 - Rock and Roll Hotel, Washington DC / Words and Pictures by Mehan Jayasuriya ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.116552 2009-11-20T13:25:18Z 2009-11-20T13:25:18Z Cynthia Fuchs As she ponders her future, Bella is less aware than you are that she has very similar effects on the monster boy rivals for her affection -- glowing eyes, rising tempers, pronounced teeth, ungodly strength, usually demonstrated on others of their ilk or furniture. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.116577 2009-11-20T13:00:18Z 2009-11-20T13:00:18Z Cynthia Fuchs The pile-on of big emotional moments, accompanied by big music, is overwhelming. This is a movie demanding to be loved. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/moving-pixels/35.116561 2009-11-20T13:00:00Z 2009-11-20T13:00:00Z Nick Dinicola Modern Warfare 2 isn’t just a game about war, it’s about modern war, and all the uncomfortable ugliness that comes with it. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/consuming-consumables/29.116484 2009-11-20T12:27:52Z 2009-11-20T12:27:52Z Eleanore Catolico tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/consuming-consumables/29.116489 2009-11-20T12:26:27Z 2009-11-20T12:26:27Z Katharine Wray tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/consuming-consumables/29.116490 2009-11-20T12:25:28Z 2009-11-20T12:25:28Z Katharine Wray tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/media-center/15.116521 2009-11-20T10:50:38Z 2009-11-20T10:50:38Z Oliver Ho tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/media-center/15.116492 2009-11-20T09:59:59Z 2009-11-20T09:59:59Z Ashley Cooper The Fame... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.116125 2009-11-20T07:00:17Z 2009-11-20T07:00:17Z Michael Antman As a reminder of a great writer's genius and obsessions, for its historical value, for its fragments of beautiful prose, and as a objet d'art, this book is a ten. As an actual work of literature, it's no more than a four. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.116420 2009-11-20T07:00:09Z 2009-11-20T07:00:09Z David Masciotra On Halloween night when Bob Dylan and his band took the stage at the Aragon in Chicago, the audience members, some of whom were clad in costume, erupted in wild applause. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.115941 2009-11-20T07:00:07Z 2009-11-20T07:00:07Z Adrien Begrand This AC/DC grab bag is expensive, but you know you want it. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/feature/21.116215 2009-11-20T07:00:07Z 2009-11-20T07:00:07Z Matt Mazur What could possibly be better than getting face time with one of the most legendary filmmakers of all-time? Getting face time with Almodovar and getting him to talk about some of Matt Mazur's favorite things: Jessica Lange, Ingmar Bergman, and actresses behaving badly. Generous, energetic and all-around amazing, Almodovar talks to PopMatters about his new film, Broken Embraces and much more. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.116114 2009-11-20T07:00:06Z 2009-11-20T07:00:06Z Jayson Harsin Two wonderfully orchestral, conceptual albums: Osso re-arranging Sufjan, the other Sufjan re-arranging the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. Caution: May require ritlin. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.116338 2009-11-20T07:00:05Z 2009-11-20T07:00:05Z Stuart Henderson Now is the right time to revisit Costa-Gavras' response to the defeats of 1968, all shot through with allusions to a burgeoning transnational revolutionary solidarity. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.115573 2009-11-20T07:00:03Z 2009-11-20T07:00:03Z Alex Ramon tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.115875 2009-11-20T07:00:02Z 2009-11-20T07:00:02Z David Gassmann tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.116267 2009-11-20T07:00:01Z 2009-11-20T07:00:01Z Matthew Fiander tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.111447 2009-11-20T07:00:00Z 2009-11-20T07:00:00Z Chris Conaton tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.115568 2009-11-20T07:00:00Z 2009-11-20T07:00:00Z Joshua O'Neill tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.116434 2009-11-20T07:00:00Z 2009-11-20T07:00:00Z Mike Schiller DJ Hero treads the line between authentic and artificial in terms of its grasp on DJ culture to a degree that's almost comical. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/column/19.116513 2009-11-20T07:00:00Z 2009-11-20T07:00:00Z Michael Brett In the 2008 presidential election, America crossed the Henson Point -- the point where we are a post-Baby Boomer society. The Rockist calls for a champagne toast. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.115551 2009-11-20T06:59:47Z 2009-11-20T06:59:47Z Scott Jordan Harris Buñuel made so many masterpieces in his near 50-year career that those films of his that are merely very good tend to be overlooked. Death in the Garden is just such a film. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.116134 2009-11-20T06:59:21Z 2009-11-20T06:59:21Z Emma Simmonds This series acted as a springboard for an astonishing plethora of British talent such as Julia Davis, Tamsin Greig, Robert Webb, David Tennant and Bill Nighy. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/column/19.115319 2009-11-20T06:59:15Z 2009-11-20T06:59:15Z Shaun Huston Supergirl's summer costume change -- which included concealing shorts under her skirt as she flew about, kicking butt -- reveals a lot about our changing superheroes. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/37.116190 2009-11-20T06:59:15Z 2009-11-20T06:59:15Z Adrien Begrand tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/feature/21.116412 2009-11-20T06:59:09Z 2009-11-20T06:59:09Z Oliver Ho Perhaps more so than any other artists, Kazuo Umezu and Hideshi Hino defined the genre of horror comics in Japan, an influence that extends to the West, and also to the world of J-horror films. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/37.115590 2009-11-20T06:58:38Z 2009-11-20T06:58:38Z Deanne Sole tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.116009 2009-11-20T06:58:11Z 2009-11-20T06:58:11Z Rachel Balik tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/37.115476 2009-11-20T06:57:00Z 2009-11-20T06:57:00Z John Bergstrom tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/37.116155 2009-11-20T06:56:37Z 2009-11-20T06:56:37Z Timothy Gabriele tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.116441 2009-11-20T04:12:27Z 2009-11-20T04:12:27Z tjmHolden tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/short-ends-and-leader/17.116539 2009-11-19T22:15:02Z 2009-11-19T22:15:02Z Bill Gibron Kevin Smith is the Richard Pryor of lo-fi independent cinema. No one in modern moviemaking works better "blue". He is a sorcerer of scatology, a God of the dick and fart joke. And yet, just like the... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/sound-affects/34.115975 2009-11-19T20:45:39Z 2009-11-19T20:45:39Z Diepiriye Kuku As a kid I listened to my favorite high-voiced divas croon and trill through lyrics of love and loss and recovery as if I had known that same experience. Not only could I match their range with my... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/media-center/15.116501 2009-11-19T20:00:28Z 2009-11-19T20:00:28Z Eleanore Catolico Beach House Teen Dream (Sub Pop) Releasing: 26 January From their self-titled debut LP to 2008's tragic Devotion, Victoria Legrand and Alex Scully have kept traction in the... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/media-center/15.116531 2009-11-19T19:45:28Z 2009-11-19T19:45:28Z Tyler Gould Fall Be Kind. The remaining 60% of the EP comes out December... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/media-center/15.116530 2009-11-19T19:05:45Z 2009-11-19T19:05:45Z Tyler Gould tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/media-center/15.116529 2009-11-19T19:00:28Z 2009-11-19T19:00:28Z Tyler Gould Contra, which is sure to be either the pinnacle of human achievement or the scourge of the... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/media-center/15.116499 2009-11-19T18:00:11Z 2009-11-19T18:00:11Z Eleanore Catolico tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/media-center/15.116491 2009-11-19T17:00:58Z 2009-11-19T17:00:58Z Ashley Cooper Til the Casket Drops. The album is due to hit stores December 8th, 2009. It was directed by Rik... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/sound-affects/34.116151 2009-11-19T16:20:05Z 2009-11-19T16:20:05Z Sean McCarthy A growing list of bands unpopular with critics, but genre-defining nevertheless, is impatiently awaiting their admittance into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/notes-from-the-road/27.116522 2009-11-19T15:46:18Z 2009-11-19T15:46:18Z Caroline Shadood Words and Pictures by Caroline Shadood ]]>