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Building the New Disney Empire, One Tween at a Timenew
If a media property is owned by Disney, it's pimping High School Musical 2 -- resistance is futile.
Boston Phoenix |
Sharon Steel |
08-17-2007 |
Movies
Keeping It Realnew
Sticking to the facts in a post-9/11 world, Michael Winterbottom and Paul Greengrass lead a new breed of filmmaker.
Boston Phoenix |
James Parker |
06-22-2007 |
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
Gore a Bore? And Other Insights.new
The Fourth Annual Silverdocs Documentary Film Festival showcased new works of exceptional merit.
Boston Phoenix |
Gerald Peary |
06-29-2006 |
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
Sundance Kidsnew
Phooey on the narrative-film judges at Austin’s 13th South by Southwest Film Festival for bestowing awards on suffocatingly conventional movies.
Boston Phoenix |
Gerald Peary |
03-31-2006 |
Movies
Swag Hagsnew
Movie after movie, Hollywood tries to buy off critics with tchotchkes.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
03-03-2006 |
Movies
Where Is the Love?new
Brokeback Mountain perfectly captures our ambivalence about marriage -- gay and straight.
Boston Phoenix |
Michael Bronski |
03-03-2006 |
Movies
Tags: Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
After Paulinenew
Where are the women film critics?
Boston Phoenix |
Gerald Peary |
02-10-2006 |
Movies
The Movie and the Realitynew
The documentary paints a visceral and disturbing cinematic portrait of our criminal-justice system in action -- yet if anything, After Innocence understates the problem.
Boston Phoenix |
Harvey Silverglate |
02-03-2006 |
Movies
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
Politics as Usual for Movies in '06?new
Hollywood's focus on real-life problems in 2005 might explain one of the biggest box-office dips in ages. Will filmmakers return to tried-and-true sequels, remakes, and out-and-out fluff?
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
12-30-2005 |
Movies
