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Thursday, September 8 2011
The Contagious Age: Overwhelmed by Vampires, Viruses, and Zombies in the 21st Century
Contagion is the dominant horror of the 21st century, an era marked by epidemics of terror, war, and economic crisis.
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.
Wednesday, May 2 2007
Monkey Business (Part 2: June)
Apparently, as the sun's strongest rays finally settle over the movie going public, sequels are the remedy to cool down an overheated demographic. This month alone holds five examples of such redux refreshment. The rest of the choices are a variety pack of genres, ideas and possibilities.
Sunday, January 1 1995
Mission Impossible III (2006): Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Laurence Fishburne, Ving Rhames
A movie titled M:I:III can't lean too hard on verbal wit, and so it quickly leaves Laurence Fishburne behind to head out into the actionated field.
Columns
Thursday, January 7 2010
The Matrix: I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
If the first act of The Matrix calls to mind eXistenZ, with Pikel licking Allegra’s bio-port and sucking gristle and skin from a gun, its third act is as antiseptic as a bad Star Trek rerun.
Reviews
Tuesday, February 21 2012
'Thurgood' Features Laurence Fishburne at the Top of His Game, but Without a Script to Match
The result of a bland script is a character who, for all the vivacity in Fishburne's performance, has little more to offer than one of the animatronics from Disneyland's Hall of Presidents.
Friday, September 9 2011
Steven Soderbergh Explores Panic with 'Contagion'
But even as social and moral orders collapse, Contagion keeps focused on carnal effects.
Friday, July 9 2010
'Predators': The One That Got Away
Predators is, for the most part, a pedestrian, fanboyish rebooting of John McTiernan's prototypically efficient action pic.
Friday, June 25 2010
Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone
Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone reminds you that the band is eclectic and voracious, brilliant and groundbreaking, combining musical styles in perpetually new ways.
Friday, April 23 2010
Armored
Two armored cars are robbed of $42 million by a batch of grimy characters, including Matt Dillon, who looks like a snake who’s been repeatedly beaten with a burnt stick.
Blogs
Friday, September 9 2011
'Contagion' Cruises When It Should Crackle
Contagion becomes a battle between what it is and what it could have been. It satisfies just enough to warrant its existence while frustrating one with its potential.
News
Thursday, August 4 2011
Laurence Fishburne will be Perry White in 'Man of Steel'
LOS ANGELES — Laurence Fishburne is going to Metropolis. The Oscar-nominated actor will join the cast of "Man of Steel" in the role of Perry…
Friday, July 9 2010
Laurence Fishburne is proud to wear the mantle of Justice Thurgood Marshall
LOS ANGELES — The first thing you notice is the assured bearing and the deep, authoritative voice (this guy did play Morpheus, after all). Then…
Monday, February 2 2009
Laurence Fishburne puts his fingerprints on America's most popular TV drama
LOS ANGELES - During a press conference last month on the sprawling set of "CSI," a journalist with obviously little regard for his own well-being…
Wednesday, January 14 2009
Laurence Fishburne steps in to save CBS' top-rated series ‘CSI'
LOS ANGELES - After Jan. 15, Gil Grissom's bug-studying, evidence-sorting, murder-solving ways come to an end on "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation." William Petersen, who has…
Monday, June 18 2007
Writer takes another 'Fantastic' voyage
The call to Mark Frost from his agent in 2003 started out, "This might seem like a crazy idea ..." The agent was suggesting that…
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