Let me answer your first question straight off: Yes, I’ve written a review of a Blu-ray disc that features little more than a burning fireplace. I know it’s a little…
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Jeff Johnson
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Something you don’t see much these days: taking a few minutes of screen time to set the mood for the film you’re about to see. The main title sequence is…
Jeff Giles
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Poor McG. He thought he was hired to direct a badass, rock ’em-sock ’em movie about evil death robots from the future (not Michael BublÁ©), and that’s what he delivered…
Jeff Giles
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I went into Four Christmases with some of the lowest expectations I’ve had for a movie all year. It exceeded them, but not by a mile, and I’m not sure…
Jeff Giles
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You’ve never seen cheap sentiment look prettier than it does in My Sister’s Keeper, the soft-focused weepie adapted from the bestselling novel from Jodi Picoult. Picoult never met a three-hankie…
Jeff Johnson
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I was ten years old when my parents took me to see The Return of the Pink Panther in 1975. At the time, the only Pink Panther I was acquainted…
Pete Chianca
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Thanksgiving is upon us once again, and you know what that means: Dinner, and awkward interaction with little-seen family members. And then dessert. Because let’s face it — without food…
Popdose Staff
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As the decade draws to a close, the Popdose staff looks back at its favorite films of the last 10 years.
Bob Cashill
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Someone at Columbia Pictures has it in for us. Besides the demolition derby of 2012 the studio also recently released the end-of-the-Earth horror comedy Zombieland and Angels & Demons, whose…
Bob Cashill
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The Criterion Collection has an agreement with IFC Films to put some of its more noteworthy acquisitions on DVD, and so we have Matteo Garrone’s outstanding Gomorrah. I reviewed the…
Kelly Stitzel
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Kelly Stitzel concludes her tribute to dysfunctional Hollywood Thanksgivings with her personal holiday favorite, Home for the Holidays.
Bob Cashill
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Thanksgiving: For some, that time of the year to reconnect with friends and family, to eat plenty of turkey and trimmings, and figure out what to gift Aunt Ida with…
Ken Shane
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Let’s begin with the facts. Motown: The DVD contains 18 vintage clips of Motown artists performing some of their best known songs. Only five of the 18 are actually live…
Bob Cashill
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After a more than a decade in Hollywood 33-year-old Robert Redford broke through as a major star in 1969’s smash hit Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. But he had…
Jeff Giles
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Anyone who’s ever seen a Kevin Smith movie knows he isn’t a filmmaker whose work screams out for hi-def. From the beginning, with 1994’s Clerks, Smith’s been at his best…
Kelly Stitzel
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Key parties! Suburban sadness! A young, sexually carnivorous Christina Ricci! Kelly Stitzel reaches into the Ang Lee archives for this week’s Soundtrack Saturday!
Jeff Giles
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You wouldn’t think a movie featuring a talking penis could be boring, but you’d be wrong. I have proof, and that proof is Sacha Baron Cohen’s BrÁ¼no. Cohen proved himself…
Bob Cashill
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The extras-rich Criterion Collection version of Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire (1987) is perfectly timed to seize the moment. The subject of the film is dividing lines—between fallible humans and…
Jeff Johnson
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In space, no one can hear you scream — unless you’re Bill Shatner yelling at Ricardo Montalban, in which case it’ll just keep on echoing forever.
Ken Shane
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You know the scene. Hell, if you grew up in a certain era, it’s practically tattooed on your eyelids. Lloyd Dobler (deftly played by John Cusack) stands in the driveway…
Jeff Giles
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Once upon a time, fashioning an action epic movie took more than just a big budget — it required some real imagination, not just to come up with the ideas…
Kelly Stitzel
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Kelly Stitzel takes us home for the holidays with this week’s Soundtrack Saturday, and serves helpings of Rufus Wainwright, Bing Crosby, and Luna to go with the gloomy late-’90s ensemble drama The Myth of Fingerprints.
Bob Cashill
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Critics have split over The Men Who Stare at Goats — some find it an amusing military satire, while others reject it as unfunny mush. Which side is Bob Cashill on?
Bob Cashill
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Quick—what won Best Foreign Film at this year’s Academy Awards? If you recalled Departures, from Japan, take a bow. Like most foreign film winners, the movie was pretty much forgotten…
Jeff Johnson
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Featuring Richard Dreyfuss, a massive spacecraft, and five of the most iconic notes in movie-music history, Close Encounters of the Third Kind is one of Jeff Johnson’s all-time favorites.
Robin Monica Alexander
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Robin Monica Alexander delves into the psychology of guilty pleasures, and recalls her childhood fascination over the movie “Irreconcilable Differences.”
Jeff Giles
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How much thought do you put into your food? Not long ago, buying food was a much more involved process — people had relationships with their butchers and grocers, they…
Jeff Giles
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As anyone who takes spirituality seriously knows, it’s only natural for a person to experience ebbs and flows in his relationship with whatever higher power he believes in. But what…
Jeff Giles
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During its brief lifespan, Blu-ray has been helped along by the usual early adopters, but now that the format has beaten out HD DVD for next-gen dominance, if it’s really…
Ken Shane
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Can you remember 1992? I certainly can, and what I remember is that trash TV — and to some extent, even the mainstream media — was filled with stories about…