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Popdose’s Top Albums (and more) of 2011

Popdose’s Top Albums (and more) of 2011

Popdose Staff December 23, 2011 0

The mother of year-end lists: Popdose's Top Albums of 2011.

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DVD Review: “The Enforcer” and “Protégé”

Bob Cashill February 27, 2009 2

Dragon Dynasty, which put out an action-packed package of Jackie Chan’s Supercop in January, serves up a double helping of Hong Kong genre cinema this month. The Enforcer, from 1995, kicks it old school,

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DVD Review: “Blindness”

Bob Cashill February 10, 2009 1

End-of-the-Earth sagas are a staple of horror and sci-fi, but it’s not just genre directors who make them. Filmmakers of all kinds are drawn to doomsday stories, as if they tire of creating worlds

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DVD Review: “The Films of Michael Powell” (“A Matter of Life and Death” and “Age of Consent”)

Bob Cashill January 9, 2009 6

As I try to figure out my top DVDs for 2008, a must for my 2009 list has already arrived. Hot on the heels of its excellent “Collector’s Choice” edition of Randolph Scott Westerns

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The Popdose 100: Our Favorite Singles of the Last 50 Years

Popdose Staff November 24, 2008 125

It all started back in September, when Robert Cass sent an e-mail to the staff telling us Billboard had announced that Chubby Checker’s “The Twist” is the top song of the Hot 100 era.

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No Concessions: Fun and Games

Bob Cashill November 21, 2008 2

Management informs me that as of today we’re off until the new year. I can’t promise that I won’t sneak back into the building from time to time, but to tide you over I

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No Concessions: A Life in Bond-age

Bob Cashill November 14, 2008 0

This is not a review of Quantum of Solace, the 22nd James Bond picture. There was a screening Wednesday night, but I had to put my Walther PPK aside…and babysit. My license to kill

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No Concessions: Decider-in-Chief (“W.”)

Bob Cashill October 17, 2008 9

George W. Bush says he is content to let history judge him. But he misunderestimated Oliver Stone, whose W. puts our departing president on the cinematic cutting board just weeks before the next election.

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