It’s Halloween! To celebrate, Kelly Stitzel is spinning the soundtrack from a witchy ’90s cult classic. Fairuza Balk alert!
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Bob Cashill
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Movie ballyhoo is in good shape this Halloween season. The made-for-$10,000 Paranormal Activity has become a runaway hit, thanks to clever Internet marketing. ”Chaos reigns” T-shirts are being hawked (or…
Scott Malchus
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There seem to be two camps of people when it comes to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: those who feel that rock and roll deserves a permanent place…
Bob Cashill
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One of my favorite moviegoing experiences occurred when I lived in San Jose, CA, and decided one weeknight to see Lars von Trier’s Zentropa (1991). The Danish filmmaker and provocateur…
Scott Malchus
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The Brothers Bloom is the second feature film from writer/director Rian Johnson. His first, the high school film noir cult classic, Brick, revealed a promising filmmaker with a fluent style…
Kelly Stitzel
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Get the cider and the candy corn, because Kelly Stitzel is breaking it down Halloween style for this week’s Soundtrack Saturday!
Jack Feerick
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Braving untold depths of epic spiritual misery, Jack Feerick has ventured into the fetid hole that is Dragonball: Evolution. Dear God, how bad can it be?
Pete Chianca
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In a stunning convergence of teeth and propellers, Hilary Swank’s Amelia arrives in theaters this weekend, inspiring Pete Chianca to look back at some other noteworthy biopics.
Jeff Giles
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In 1974, Land of the Lost was a scrappy, heartfelt Sid & Marty Krofft series that aired Saturday mornings on CBS, a weekly case study in how to wring every…
Jeff Johnson
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Sequels: Hollywood loves ’em, but they don’t always plan for ’em. Jeff Johnson looks back at nine of the worst sequel-inspired plot and character abuses.
Bob Cashill
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Michelle Pfeiffer was an Academy Award nominee for Stephen Frears’ Dangerous Liaisons (1988), for which screenwriter Christopher Hampton took home a statuette. But I don’t expect literary adaptation lightning to…
Scott Malchus
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An Audience of One (2009, Indiepix) Purchase this DVD from Amazon or from Indiepix At age 40, Richard Gozawsky, a San Francisco Pentecostal pastor at one of those houses of…
Kelly Stitzel
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It didn’t exactly peel out in theaters when it was released in 1983, but Kelly Stitzel still has a soft spot for the film adaptation of Stephen King’s Christine — and, of course, its soundtrack.
Bob Cashill
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At long last, Spike Jonze’s adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are arrives in theaters this weekend. Did Bob Cashill have a wild rumpus at his screening, or did he send Jonze to bed without supper?
Arend Anton
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It’s very rare for a high-concept comedy to work on a consistent level. Often, the movie is only funny in concept and only contains enough successful jokes to string together…
Ken Shane
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Mention Jonathan Demme’s 1984 concert film Stop Making Sense (Palm Pictures), and a lot of people are likely to respond with a two-word summary — big suit. While David Byrne’s…
Jeff Johnson
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Let me begin by stating that 1988’sÁ‚ Die Hard was my choice for Best Picture that year (with all due apologies to Rain Man — a great film, but not as…
Scott Malchus
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The Proposal (2009, Touchstone) purchase from Amazon: Deluxe DVD Edition | Blu-ray Sandra Bullock is at the top of her game and Ryan Reynolds gives one of his best performances…
Popdose Staff
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Popdose mourns the sudden loss of film critic and staff member Lance Berry, who passed away unexpectedly on October 4.
Kelly Stitzel
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No, not that “Scream,” silly — Kelly Stitzel is here to serve up the soundtrack for the first chapter in the soon-to-be-revived tongue-in-cheek horror franchise.
Jack Feerick
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What is noetic science, why is everyone talking about it, and how does it relate to some of the most obnoxious new age hooey to separate people from their paychecks this decade? Jack Feerick knows, and he isn’t afraid to tell us.
Bob Cashill
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Nick Hornby’s been a busy man lately — not only does he have a new book out, but he penned the screenplay for this coming-of-age drama, which is already earning Oscar buzz for star Carey Mulligan.
Jeff Johnson
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One of the things I really enjoy about watching my favorite films over and over again is that I’m always noticing things I hadn’t noticed before, especially as my own…
Dave Lifton
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As the financial divide between fan and athlete grows with each year, our superstitions are becoming all that we have to identify with our favorite teams. We rarely get to…
Scott Malchus
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I can understand why fans of the character Wolverine and his band of misunderstood mutants, the X-Men, were disappointed with this film. Sure, the movie has some kick-ass action sequences,…
Jeff Giles
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Synopsis: A poor little boy wins a ticket to visit the inside of a mysterious and magical chocolate factory. When he experiences the wonders inside the factory, the boy discovers…
Jeff Giles
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If you’ve been looking for an excuse to make the jump from DVD to Blu-ray, look no further. Matter of fact, thanks to Disney’s brilliant strategy of bundling DVDs with…
Jeff Giles
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It’s the most-watched film in history, and unless you’re an extremely unusual person, you’ve seen it more times than you can count — but The Wizard of Oz still somehow…
Pete Chianca
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Michael Moore’s latest, Capitalism: A Love Story, opens around the country today, and if the early reviews are any indication, it’s yet another cleverly executed and scathing reminder of how…
Bob Cashill
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Writer/director David Mamet and co-star William H. Macy have a good time reminiscing on the commentary track that accompanies the Criterion Collection edition of Homicide (1991). This “cop movie that…