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'Sherlock' Season Four: The Russian Roulette of Relationships
Sherlock Holmes is tempted, tortured, and tested -- all in the name of love.
29 Jan 2017
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It May Be Titled 'The Hobbit', But It's All About the Dragon
A shapeshifter, gigantic spiders, and a barrel-battle escape create exhilarating suspense in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, but best of all is a deliciously devious incendiary beast.
06 Apr 2014
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'Sherlock' and the Case of the Changing, Challenging Identities
The third season of Sherlock becomes much more meta and challenges the very concept of who Sherlock Holmes is, and suggests change is indeed in the (east) wind.
11 Feb 2014
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The Month In Pop Entertainment: January 2014
Ring in the New Year with new music, TV series, and a surprising amount of horror movies.
08 Jan 2014
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'The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug' Has a Smart Balance of Spectacle and Character
At this point, it would be foolish to expect Peter Jackson to change his approach to The Hobbit films.
13 Dec 2013
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Can Life Go on After 'The World's End'?
The cinematic worlds presented in the Cornetto Trilogy may be ending, but the legendary collaboration of Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost lives on in The World's End DVD/Blu-ray set.
22 Nov 2013
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A Proud Manboy Faces 'The World's End'
Refusing to grow up, Gary hangs on to the belief that his last great night as a hard-drinking lad remains unfinished.
23 Aug 2013
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Speedy’s Café: Starring in 'Sherlock' is Part of the Family Business
Now synonymous with BBC hit Sherlock, Speedy’s Café serves a growing fan base everything from hearty omelets to television memorabilia.
01 May 2013
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Middle-Earth Eye Candy: 'The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey'
This film explores the bonds of friendship and the commonality among all races, and provides raging battles and daring escapes, as well as quiet fireside moments that reveal a character’s thoughts.
17 Mar 2013
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Brainy is the New Sexy: 'Sherlock Season Two'
Irene Adler aptly deduces that “Brainy is the new sexy.” Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock Holmes and the second season of Sherlock are just that--as well as increasingly popular around the world.
22 May 2012
Television
'Sherlock' Is Divorced from Reality, Yet Deeply In-Tune with an Irresistible Alternate Reality
The modern Sherlock Holmes is so compelling because he is a modern intellectual appealing to audiences who, for the most part, live in a world dissociated from intellectualism.
03 Dec 2010
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The Old Curiosity Shop
If you like your Dickens dark, this is about as bleak as it gets.
02 Jun 2009
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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.
24 Jan 2008
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Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Male
From the tender and eerie precision of Sam Riley's depiction of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis in Control to yet another superlative performance by Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood, PopMatters highlights the best male actors of 2007.
08 Jan 2008
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Dedication
It's Henry's movie, and for all his eccentricities and fixations and rages, he's a very conventional man.
29 Aug 2007
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Hot Fuzz (2007)
Hot Fuzz is all about the guys. And who needs girls when you have guns?
Daynah Burnett
23 Apr 2007
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Breaking and Entering (2006)
While Breaking and Entering leans heavily on its metaphors (see especially, the titular allusions), it doesn't make any of its roiling notions compelling.
28 Jan 2007
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
For all its possibilities -- and its crazily pleasant animations --the movie takes a more or less conventional narrative shape.
Cynthia Fuchs
09 Oct 2005
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
Ford Prefect (Mos Def) wanders into the film of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a little late, and in no hurry.
Cynthia Fuchs
28 Apr 2005
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Love Actually (2003)
On occasion, the film allows a jaded sensibility to worm its way into this otherwise picturesque world.
Mary Colgan
12 Nov 2003
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The Office
The humor [of 'The Office'] is as dry as vermouth; next to it, the 'Dilbert' comic strip is 'The Man Show'.
Christopher Sieving
09 Feb 2003
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