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New Kids on the Block: 10

10 arrives five years after New Kids on the Block's 2008 comeback effort, The Block.

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Your Virtual Fall TV Preview: Fridays

If you want to know what's new on primetime TV this fall, stop right here.

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One Hit Wonder: New Kids on the Block Edition

Almost nine years after racking up nine top ten hits, two members of New Kids on the Block had top ten hits of their own as solo acts.

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Part 3: The Sixth Sense to Fight Club (August - October 1999)

Films that have left a lasting impression on their creators (M. Night Shyamalan, Sam Mendes, David Fincher) make up the majority of Part Three of our Films of 1999 overview.

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Righteous Kill

This movie boasts a tired and generic script and achieves a weird sort of harmonic convergence of forgetablilty.

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'Righteous Kill': Attacked on All Sides

Righteous Kill uses Karen (Carla Gugino) both to critique the male cops' sense of self-righteousness and be the victim.

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Talk, Talk, Talk: September 2008

From wars both past and present to a number of nail-biting thrillers, September is sizing up as a potentially profitable one.

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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.

Bill Gibron

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Runaway

Runaway splits the difference between basic family drama and the serial thriller.

Samantha Bornemann

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The Path to 9/11

The motives and actions of the heroes transcend reproach; the bad guys are so inscrutably evil, they come across as the beady-eyed mole people in B-grade science fiction movies.

Mike Ward

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Annapolis (2006)

Toward the end of 'achieving a balance' in the film, Justin Lin says, 'It was just basically a massage all the way through, from the writing to the production to the editing.'

Cynthia Fuchs

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Annapolis (2006)

Toward the end of 'achieving a balance' in the film, Justin Lin says, 'It was just basically a massage all the way through, from the writing to the production to the editing.'"

Cynthia Fuchs

Film

Annapolis (2006)

Annapolis is straight-up male melodrama.

Cynthia Fuchs

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Dreamcatcher (2003)

One thing you can say about 'Dreamcatcher': you can't really say one thing about it.

Cynthia Fuchs

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Boomtown

By playing safe, they might just as easily be playing dead.

Lesley Smith

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20 Films That Went From Bombs to Beloved

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20 Films That Went From Bombs to Beloved

The 25 Best Classic Progressive Rock Albums

The 100 Greatest Alternative Singles of the '80s: Part 1: 100 - 81

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Jackie Chan's 10 Best Films

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10 arrives five years after New Kids on the Block's 2008 comeback effort, The Block.

If you want to know what's new on primetime TV this fall, stop right here.

Almost nine years after racking up nine top ten hits, two members of New Kids on the Block had top ten hits of their own as solo acts.

Films that have left a lasting impression on their creators (M. Night Shyamalan, Sam Mendes, David Fincher) make up the majority of Part Three of our Films of 1999 overview.

This movie boasts a tired and generic script and achieves a weird sort of harmonic convergence of forgetablilty.

Righteous Kill uses Karen (Carla Gugino) both to critique the male cops' sense of self-righteousness and be the victim.

From wars both past and present to a number of nail-biting thrillers, September is sizing up as a potentially profitable one.

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.

Runaway splits the difference between basic family drama and the serial thriller.

The motives and actions of the heroes transcend reproach; the bad guys are so inscrutably evil, they come across as the beady-eyed mole people in B-grade science fiction movies.

Toward the end of 'achieving a balance' in the film, Justin Lin says, 'It was just basically a massage all the way through, from the writing to the production to the editing.'

Toward the end of 'achieving a balance' in the film, Justin Lin says, 'It was just basically a massage all the way through, from the writing to the production to the editing.'"

Annapolis is straight-up male melodrama.

'Overkill' doesn't begin to describe it.

One thing you can say about 'Dreamcatcher': you can't really say one thing about it.

By playing safe, they might just as easily be playing dead.