Features
Friday, January 25 2008
Digital Dynamite: The 30 Best DVDs of 2007
It was the year of the behemoth box set, the multi-disc triumph that tried to give long suffering fans everything their demanding little digital hearts ever desired. Here are PopMatters' 30 picks for the best DVDs of the year.
Friday, January 11 2008
A Gallery of Good Works: The Best Films of 2007
From Julian Schnabel's artsy The Diving Bell and the Butterfly to the legendary Coen Brothers splendid adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men, PopMatters counts down the 30 best films of 2007.
Wednesday, January 9 2008
Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Male
From the tender and eerie precision of Sam Riley's depiction of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis in Control to yet another superlative performance by Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood, PopMatters highlights the best male actors of 2007.
Friday, March 2 2007
The PopMatters 'Short Ends & Leader' Spring Film Preview
In order to separate the worthy from the worthless, PopMatters' "Short Ends & Leader" editor is highlighting 10 new films he's looking forward to this spring.
Reviews
Tuesday, April 24 2007
Hot Fuzz (2007)
Hot Fuzz is all about the guys. And who needs girls when you have guns?
Blogs
Wednesday, January 19 2011
Whatever Simon Says
Simon Pegg. Nick Frost. Together, they're pretty much unstoppable.
Wednesday, August 11 2010
Making Mr. Wright
Edgar Wright is cut from the same cloth as the members of Monty Python some 50 years before, a British boy capable of great wit and even greater insight.
News
Saturday, July 28 2007
'Bad Boys' influenced the British makers of 'Hot Fuzz'
The British comedy "Hot Fuzz," out this week on DVD, plays like a compendium of every action movie and cop thriller cliche ever made. The…
Friday, April 20 2007
'Hot Fuzz': Filmakers approve the use of deadly farce
"The one word that we bristle at is 'spoof.'"
Friday, April 20 2007
'Hot Fuzz': An Over-the-top Brit-riff
Simon Pegg is the silliest David Caruso since the real one in Hot Fuzz, an over-the-top Brit-riff on cop movies, cop shows and the CSI…
Thursday, April 19 2007
Taking aim at cop movies with 'Hot Fuzz'
Most filmmakers hate the city-a-day promotion tours that inevitably end up producing a lot more sitting around -- in airports, airplanes, taxis, hotel rooms and…
