AltWeeklies Wire
(Video) Game Changers?new
After decades of lackluster releases, the video-game-turned-film genre may have finally found its royalty.
Boston Phoenix |
Brett Michel |
06-04-2010 |
Commentary
The 2008 Heroic Holiday DVD and Blu-ray Gift Guidenew
At the end of this year, when you're deciding between making December's mortgage payment or spending just a little bit more for little (or big) Billy's holiday gift, keep in mind that dear, cute Billy will always fondly remember 2008 as the year that his beloved superheroes whammed!
Boston Phoenix |
Brett Michel |
12-12-2008 |
Movies
Simon Pegg's Radioactive Risenew

The Shaun of the Dead star on losing friends, alienating people, and wanking off to Gillian Anderson.
Boston Phoenix |
Brett Michel |
10-02-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Hidden in Plain Sightnew
Director Tom McCarthy based his new film, The Visitor, on first-person accounts from detainees in limbo.
Boston Phoenix |
Brett Michel |
04-17-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Visitor, Tom McCarthy
Playing the Facts Against the Fiction of '21'new
"The reality is that while they captured some things really well, the actual storyline is changed quite a bit," says MIT house-beater Jeff Ma.
Boston Phoenix |
Brett Michel |
03-27-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: 21, Robert Luketic
Fast Tonynew
As a Kiwi traveling to the Bonneville Salt Flats in hopes of setting the world's land-speed record, Anthony Hopkins projects more sex appeal than actors a third his age.
Boston Phoenix |
Brett Michel |
02-03-2006 |
Reviews