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Thursday, January 6 2011

The Best DVDs of 2010

As the medium continues to struggle with significance in the steady "streaming" of the 21st Century, here are PopMatters' picks for the best the format(s) have to offer.


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Friday, June 11 2010

Life: A Simple Story About Sex and Food

Sumptuously filmed, gorgeously executed, and groundbreaking in technique and motivation, Life must be one of the great film accomplishments of the decade.


Sunday, March 21 2010

Life: Series Premiere

Life presents the "rules of the wild" in ways you'll recognize. Animals are both very unlike and very like humans.


Wednesday, October 29 2008

Life: Season 1

Without Lewis, Life is a solid if mostly unremarkable program, somewhere between willfully quirky and gruesome for gruesome’s sake.


Monday, September 29 2008

Life

Charlie (Damian Lewis) teeters incessantly on the line between cocky and ridiculous, quirky and respectable -- as if he understands the differences.


Wednesday, September 26 2007

Life

Life's details of color and composition do the work usually handled by too much expository dialogue, granting access to Dani and Charlie's thinking.


Blogs

Monday, March 22 2010

Discovery's 'Life': Komodo Dragon Hunt (video)

Have you recently bought a high definition television set and are not sure what all the fuss is about? Well stop worrying, the fuss has…


News

Friday, March 19 2010

Gorgeous 11-part series captures the beauty and pathology of nature

"Life," like its predecessor "Planet Earth," is the reason flat screens, Blu-ray and high-definition TV were invented. No doubt the 11-part series, with its astonishingly…


Thursday, March 18 2010

BBC miniseries 'Life' is a stunning look at survival

REASON TO WATCH: The BBC Natural History Unit strikes again! Oprah Winfrey narrates. WHAT IT'S ABOUT: Four years in the making, 11 hours in the…


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