Features
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.
Thursday, May 3 2007
Monkey Business (Part 3: July)
Finally, a month with only one remaining series contender. All wizard based Potter-y aside, this will be the most tenuous time for the business called show. After a strong start, the eccentric collection of entertainments here could make or break this potentially record shattering motion picture season.
Reviews
Friday, December 21 2007
The Simpsons Movie
The Simpsons Movie may be familiar, but it's bigger and visually richer than what we're used to, as well as funnier than many of the show's more recent episodes.
Friday, July 27 2007
The Simpsons Movie
If you understand the Simpsons to be at once the most egregious and exemplary dysfunctional family in U.S. popular culture, Marge's stalwart strength isn't nearly so spectacular as Bart and Homer's bizarrely symphonic pandemonium.
Friday, July 27 2007
The Simpsons Movie
After 18 years on the air and nearly 400 amazing episodes, The Simpsons Movie delivers the entertainment equivalent of a 90 minute greatest hits package.
News
Wednesday, August 8 2007
Woohoo! Satire seeing a revival
On the weekend of July 27-29, "The Simpsons Movie" grossed $74 million, the fifth-largest opening weekend of 2007. It was also the most surprising hit…
Wednesday, August 1 2007
20 essential things I've learned from Homer Simpson
The time has come at last. This weekend, Americans stood in line, grabbed a tub of buttery popcorn, sat down in the dark and awaited…
Monday, July 30 2007
Creator as surprised as anyone by success of 'The Simpsons'
LOS ANGELES -- Matt Groening stopped by a Borders bookstore the other night and bought a CD of the 1967 album "The Who Sell Out."…
Thursday, July 26 2007
The voice of Bart Simpson says don't have a cow about the movie
"Their idea of a 10-year-old boy might be different from yours. But for that one, I gambled. One voice. I was hired on the spot."
Tuesday, July 24 2007
It's 'The Simpsons,' bigger than ever
"The Simpsons" is toweringly unsentimental, just as it can be ragingly silly, but its message -- and, yeah, there was always a message.
