Monday, January 7 2013
PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2012
It was the kind of year where the best inspired a near hyperbolic amount of praise, while the worst were being condemned as the funeral bell for the entire type.
Friday, December 28 2012
PopMatters Picks: The Best Music of 2012
As our wide-ranging coverage of the year in music shows and the music itself proves, what the best and most compelling musical expressions of 2012 have in common is that they are the products of hard work and labors of love.
Monday, October 1 2012
Code Red: Tori Amos Performer Spotlight
In celebration of the release of Gold Dust, PopMatters begins a week-long Performer Spotlight series on Amos’ career today with a very special introduction to her by those who know her work best: collaborators from across this storied and prolific career.
Tuesday, September 4 2012
Saving Grace… and Face: The 2012 PopMatters Fall Film Preview
Again, it seems like cinema needs to save itself. Here's a preview of what the next four months have to offer.
Monday, June 18 2012
Essential Film Performances - 2012 Edition
PopMatters updates our best performances feature with 50 new performances from the early days of film up to the present day. Watch this space for the next two weeks as we bring to your screen more iconic film performances.
Tuesday, May 1 2012
Hot Stuff: The 2012 PopMatters Summer Movie Preview
With a summer as hot as this, something's going to sizzle and something is always gonna get burned. Hopefully, this time around, it's not the audience.
Monday, April 30 2012
Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion
PopMatters' latest book, Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion, releases tomorrow in the US/Canada and Friday in the rest of the world. To give you a preview, you can sample many of the book's articles here, but you'll want to pick up a copy of the book for the complete articles and its many exclusive essays and features.
Friday, February 24 2012
PopMatters Picks: The Best Books of 2011
Books have a long shelf-life. A loved book may outlast its original owner by a generation – or more -- if well cared for. With that in mind, we recall our best loved books of 2011 here, well into 2012. Better late than never...
Tuesday, January 31 2012
Slipped Discs 2011
PopMatters looks at those Slipped Discs, the ones that our writers dearly loved and thought were important, but simply didn’t draw enough votes to make the top 75. With that much great music to digest, we’re splitting these picks up over the next three days. So dive in and discover something new or revisit some of last year’s favorites.
Monday, January 9 2012
PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2011
Just like Sisyphus, forever pushing his immense boulder up a hill filled with possibilities, it's time for PopMatters to take on the task of coming up with the year's very best. While arduous, the results speak for themselves.
Monday, December 12 2011
PopMatters Picks: The Best Music of 2011
Up in clouds and flowing through streams, the music of 2011, in its variety and sheer volume, was hard to get a handle on. Social networking and consumer technology are taking our experience of music for a ride to who knows where, but the possibilities explored this year proved that it’s worth going with the flow even if we’re not sure where we’re headed and when we’ll get there.
Monday, October 31 2011
All Things Reconsidered: Six Feet Under
Over the next several weeks, PopMatters will be presenting a series of essays exploring Six Feet Under from the show’s gestation and evolution in regards to HBO’s rise as a haven of quality original programming, all the way to its transcendent final six minutes, which set the bar for perfection of a series finale.
Tuesday, September 27 2011
Nevermind Nostalgia: The Music of 1991… 20 Years Later
Over the next several weeks, PopMatters explores the artistic diversity of 1991, as we revisit some of the year's most memorable albums, address the trends of the day, and mine the cutout bin of history.
Tuesday, September 6 2011
The 100 Essential Directors
The aim with this series is to celebrate directors of distinct vision, who have honed their respective crafts, who have brought something new and exciting to the medium, and who continue to push the boundaries of the form. This isn't necessarily a Hollywood-friendly list, and that is very much on purpose.
Friday, September 2 2011
With a Bang: PopMatters Fall 2011 Preview
Time to figure out the final few weeks of the movie season circa 2011. Will it be a bust, or go out with a bang?
Thursday, June 16 2011
The Best Summer Entertainment
PopMatters writers present their favorite summer entertainment -- be it music, film, books, events, games, TV, comics -- from any period in pop culture history. These are highly personal picks and we'll begin adding to them on an annual basis. Today we present books and comics selections. Look for music on Tuesday, film/TV/DVD on Wednesday and games and events on Thursday of this week.
Friday, May 6 2011
Gods, Mutants, and Robots, Oh My!: The 2011 PopMatters Summer Movie Preview
The familiarity of the films coming out between May and August scream of a sure fire mentality that moderates art for the sake of a stack of cash. Sure, there is fun to be had and a few surprises along the way.
Friday, April 15 2011
Spotlight: Joss Whedon
In the past two decades Joss Whedon has emerged as one of the most influential figures in all of pop culture, most famously by altering many of the standard conventions of television, but also through his screenwriting for films and his extensive comic book work.
Wednesday, February 2 2011
Missed Movies of 2010
Every year, we put the call out to our staff to pick the year's best and every year, out staff comes up with more selections than we can initially handle. Call them misjudged (or misguided), but from A to Z, these are the movies we missed for 2010.
