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Revival House: “Has Anybody Seen Sam Lowry?”
25 years ago, with the U.S. release of Brazil, director Terry Gilliam took on a major Hollywood studio and won
Read More »World Cup: Matchday 20 Recap and Matchday 21 Previews
Netherlands 2-1 Brazil This matchup of two of the most celebrated diving/soccer teams lived up to its billing. It helped that Brazil took advantage of Holland’s defense napping early on. Then came some wonderful
Read More »World Cup: Matchday 19 Recap and Matchday 20 Previews
Paraguay 0-0 Japan (5-3 on penalties) As with Uruguay v. South Korea, this was always going to be the appetizer to the main course later in the day. But the marinara for the mozzarella
Read More »World Cup: Matchday 18 Recap and Matchday 19 Previews
Netherlands 2-1 Slovakia After all of yesterday’s drama, this game was bound to be a return to what we expect in the group stage: a perpetual favorite dispatching an overmatched opponent without too much
Read More »World Cup: Matchday 17 Recaps and Matchday 18 Previews
Germany 4-1 England This is going to be remembered as the game in which the ghosts of 1966 were evoked as payback in this famous rivalry. But even if Frank Lampard’s shot had tied
Read More »World Cup: Matchday 10 Recap and Matchday 11 Previews
Slovakia 0-2 Paraguay Yesterday’s Cameroon v. Denmark game showed that a fight for survival between teams of contrasting styles could lead to an exciting display of attacking soccer. This was the opposite. Slovakia were
Read More »World Cup: Matchday 9 Recap and Matchday 10 Previews
Netherlands 1-0 Japan Games like this are why I can never take the Dutch seriously as contenders, but also why I can’t count them out. Like their fellow underachievers Spain against Switzerland, they struggled
Read More »World Cup: Matchday 5 Recap and Matchday 6 Preview
Popdose's daily recap of the action at the World Cup and a preview of tomorrow's games
Read More »World Cup: Matchday 4 Recap and Matchday 5 Preview
Popdose's daily recap of the action at the World Cup and a preview of tomorrow's games
Read More »The World Cup: Groups G & H Previews
This is my final preview of the eight groups. After the tournament begins on Friday, I’ll try to have daily recaps of the day’s events and my analysis here at Popdose. This is also
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