Waitress (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)

Posted on May 27, 2007 by popenterta • Leave a comment

WAITRESS (2007) Starring Keri Russell, Nathan Fillion, Cheryl Hines, Adrienne Shelly, Eddie Jemison, Lew Temple, Jeremy Sisto, Andy Griffith, Darby Stanchfield, Heidi Sulzman, Lauri Johnson, Sarah Hunley, Cindy Drummond, Nathan Dean and Caroline Fogarty. Screenplay by Adrienne Shelly. Directed by Adrienne Shelly. Distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures. 104 minutes. Rated PG-13. It is hard to … Continue reading →

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How I Met Your Mother – Season One (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

Posted on May 27, 2007 by popenterta • Leave a comment

How I Met Your Mother Season One (2005-2006) (Fox Home Video-2006) Those charmingly misguided TV sitcom writers seem to have four general rules: One: all twenty-somethings, regardless of financial obligation and career path, must live in Manhattan, in cool apartments with HUGE bathrooms. Two: all Manhattan-dwelling twenty-somethings are magically blessed with lots of free time, … Continue reading →

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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)

Posted on May 26, 2007 by popenterta • Leave a comment

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD’S END (2007) Starring Johnny Depp, Keira Knightley, Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey Rush, Bill Nighy, Jack Davenport, Stellan Skarsgard, Tom Hollander, Naomie Harris, Chow Yun-fat, Lee Arenberg, Mackenzie Crook, Kevin R. McNally, David Bailie, Jonathan Pryce and Keith Richards. Screenplay by Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio. Directed by Gore Verbinski. Distributed … Continue reading →

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Severance (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)

Posted on May 24, 2007 by popenterta • Leave a comment

SEVERANCE (2007) Starring Laura Harris, Danny Dyer, Tim McInnerny, Toby Stephens, Claudie Blakley, Andy Nyman, Babou Ceesay, Juli Drajkó, Judit Victor and David Gilliam. Screenplay by James Moran and Christopher Smith. Directed by Christopher Smith. Distributed by Magnolia Films. 91 minutes. Rated R. Severance asks the tongue-in-cheek question – if you take a cheesy horror movie … Continue reading →

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Evening (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)

Posted on May 24, 2007 by popenterta • Leave a comment

EVENING (2007) Starring Vanessa Redgrave, Claire Danes, Toni Collette, Patrick Wilson, Hugh Dancy, Natasha Richardson, Glenn Close, Meryl Streep, Mamie Gummer, Barry Bostwick and Eileen Atkins. Screenplay by Susan Minot and Michael Cunningham. Directed by Lajos Koltai. Distributed by Focus Features. 117 minutes. Rated PG-13. Evening wears its quality pedigree like a tiara on its stately … Continue reading →

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The Treatment (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)

Posted on May 22, 2007 by popenterta • Leave a comment

THE TREATMENT (2007) Starring Chris Eigeman, Famke Janssen, Ian Holm, Stephanie March, Peter Vack, Griffin Newman, Josh Barclay Caras, Matt Stadelmann, Lindsay Johnson, Stephen Lang, Maddie Corman and Roger Rees. Screenplay by Oren Rudavsky and Daniel Saul Housman. Directed by Oren Rudavsky. Distributed by New Yorker Films. 86 minutes. Rated R. In Woody Allen’s Stardust Memories, … Continue reading →

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True Grit (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)

Posted on May 22, 2007 by popenterta • Leave a comment

TRUE GRIT (1969) Starring John Wayne, Kim Darby, Glen Campbell, Jeremy Slate, Robert Duvall, Strother Martin, Alfred Ryder, Jeff Corey, Ron Soble, John Fiedler, James Westerfield and Dennis Hopper. Screenplay by Marguerite Roberts. Directed by Henry Hathaway. Distributed by Paramount Pictures. 127 minutes. Rated G. When you are of a certain age, there are only … Continue reading →

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Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless – She’s Lacey and She’s Cagney

Posted on May 19, 2007 by popenterta • Leave a comment

Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless She’s Lacey and She’s Cagney by Jay S. Jacobs It was a series that broke all the rules. A cop drama in which the two leads were both women – looking at the personal and professional lives of two women making their way in a man’s world and not only keeping up, but … Continue reading →

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Once Around Dublin’s Streets with Glen Hansard & John Carney

Posted on May 19, 2007 by popenterta • 1 Comment

Once Around Dublin’s Streets with Glen Hansard & John Carney by Brad Balfour Fashioning a hybrid from two cinematic genres can either pay off or be a profound failure. In the case of John Carney’s debut feature, Once, he succeeds handily. Maybe that’s because he enlisted his longtime pal and former band member, Glen Hansard, lead … Continue reading →

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Joshua Ferris Is Not Close To the End

Posted on May 17, 2007 by popenterta • Leave a comment

JOSHUA FERRIS IS NOT CLOSE TO THE END BY RONALD SKLAR The problem with anything set in an office is just that – is it truly set in an office? The correct tone is more often than not never struck, and the corporate atmosphere almost always feels exaggerated and artificial, as if written by a … Continue reading →

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