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With 10 Best Picture Noms, is Oscar Up In the Air?new
After years of shrinking audiences and low-grossing Best Picture nominees, the Academy this year is hedging its bets. Why not expand the slate from five to 10, allowing voters to give lip service to the artsy-fartsy fare while also nominating the big box-office potboilers that they and everybody except for film critics really wanted to see?
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
01-27-2010 |
Movies
Conspiracy is in the Air ... No Wonder Hollywood is Embracing Paranoianew
With 9/11 Truthers, Birthers, Tea Partyers, and even Obama school-speech muckrakers dominating news cycles, conspiracy is clearly in the air. Hollywood has noticed -- that's why theaters are suddenly awash in paranoia.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
09-10-2009 |
Movies
Our Worst President's On-Screen Legacynew
The War on Terror might not have brought about the end of irony, but it sure put a damper on parody. So except for sporadic bits, Bush got a free pass not only from the news media but also from the world of entertainment.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
10-16-2008 |
Movies
Autumn Peeves: Fall Films Have Full Agendasnew
This is an election year, after all, and those trying to escape the issues are just going to have to stay home and watch all the campaign ads on TV.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
09-11-2008 |
Movies
Tags: fall films
Does the Recent Surge of Stoner Movies Mean America is Going to Pot?new
Marijuana movies are a hot genre right now -- Knocked Up, Harold & Kumar (both Go to White Castle and Escape from Guantanamo Bay), and Superbad have made piles of green at the box office. Just this past week, Pineapple Express topped the box office at $12.5 million, a record for a Wednesday opening in August. And those are just the obvious offenders.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
08-14-2008 |
Movies
Medium Scarenew
In new films, truth is fluid -- and controlled by the click of a button -- because media itself is a major player.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
03-06-2008 |
Movies
Country for Gold Mennew
In short, this is the year that death and evil will stalk the Oscars. Predictions for this year's winners.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
02-21-2008 |
Movies
The Oscars Go to Hellnew
We don't need Mike Huckabee to tell us the Oscars have become the handiwork of Satan and benchmarks of the coming Apocalypse.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
01-18-2008 |
Movies
Last Man Standingnew
Once a cautionary tale about human folly, has the doomsday myth become just more fun and games?
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
12-14-2007 |
Movies
Cinema of Shadowsnew
We're nearly five years into the Iraq crisis, and Hollywood has yet to make a film about the war. Scratch that -- every film is about the war.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
06-07-2007 |
Movies
Hindsightnew
The Hitchcock classic Rear Window is he model for Hollywood's latest trend -- a fear-inspired peep-a-palooza.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
05-03-2007 |
Movies
Tags: Alfred Hitchcock, Rear Window
'Babel' Rousersnew
Awards predictions for 2007; Oscar opts for liberal guilt.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
01-18-2007 |
Movies
The Tipton Three Todaynew
You'd think that after escaping the black hole of detention at Guantanamo, life would be pretty much downhill -- not necessarily so for the so-called Tipton Three, a trio of Brits caught up in the invasion of Afghanistan and incarcerated as Al Qaeda suspects in 2001.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
06-22-2006 |
Movies
Swag Hagsnew
Movie after movie, Hollywood tries to buy off critics with tchotchkes.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
03-03-2006 |
Movies
Hollywood Gives Bush the Fingernew
Lefty films look good for this year's Oscars.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
01-30-2006 |
Movies
