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War Is This and Thatnew
Two new documentaries about veterans from two wars serve up significant differences but also universal truths.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
06-29-2006 |
Reviews
Does the World Need Superman?new
The mastery of cinematic form that director Bryan Singer exhibited in his X-Men movies carries the super narrative and then some.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
06-28-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Bryan Singer, Superman Returns
Casting the Man of Steelnew
Director Bryan Singer explains how the latest Superman, played by newcomer Brendan Routh, can be vulnerable (to a point) but not gay.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
06-28-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Bryan Singer, Superman Returns
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
Truth and Consequencesnew
For a film consisting mostly of a middle-aged guy pointing to charts and lecturing about complex, controversial, and world-challenging ideas, this makes for a more entertaining thriller than The Da Vinci Code.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
06-01-2006 |
Reviews
Inconvenient Questionsnew
Al Gore discusses his film, An Inconvenient Truth and its apocalyptic image of the future.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
06-01-2006 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Triple Ploynew
Three Times unites his themes of the recalled past and the scattered present, and it may be Hsiao-Hsien's most profound, if enigmatic, film to date.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
04-27-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Three Times
Sooner or Later?new
United 93 director Paul Greengrass discusses scheduling the movie's release.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
04-27-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Paul Greengrass, united 93
United We Fallnew
United 93 treads a fine line between catharsis and exploitation, between the manipulation of an agenda and the illusion of objectivity.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
04-27-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Paul Greengrass, united 93
Swag Hagsnew
Movie after movie, Hollywood tries to buy off critics with tchotchkes.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
03-03-2006 |
Movies
Shaggy-Corpse Storynew
The title of Tommy Lee Jones’s directorial debut gives fair warning of its weirdness.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
02-03-2006 |
Reviews
Trial and Errornew
The system is found guilty in After Innocence, a documentary on wrongful convictions.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
02-03-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: After Innocence, Jessica Sanders
Hollywood Gives Bush the Fingernew
Lefty films look good for this year's Oscars.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
01-30-2006 |
Movies
Open Sesamenew
They don’t give out awards for best titles, otherwise Albert Brooks’s Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World would be in the running. Instead, all it got him was trouble with the studio.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
01-19-2006 |
Movies
Hidden Agendanew
By taking surveillance for granted, Caché plays forbidden games.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
01-13-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Michael Haneke, Caché
