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HBO/BBC's 'The Girl in the Café'new
Writer-director Richard Curtis has managed that most difficult of movie feats, entwining the personal and the political without trivializing either.
Boston Phoenix |
Joyce Millman |
06-24-2005 |
TV
Other Englandsnew
Who wrote Hamlet? Did Christopher Marlowe help William Shakespeare? Plus, the tragic vision and mystical romance of Joan Aiken's Wolves Chronicles.
Boston Phoenix |
Jeffrey Gantz |
06-20-2005 |
Fiction
Tags: in, and, of, King, wolves, Nantucket, black, Stolen, Hearts, Lodge, Alex Jack; Joan Aiken, Battersea, Chase, Clatteringshaws, Cuckoo, Dido, Hamlet; Wolves Chronicles, Lake, Lear, Limbo, Midwinter, Nightbirds, Nightingale, Pa, TREE, Willoughby
Women in Lovenew
This film adaptation of a two-woman show about the beginning of a lesbian relationship means well, but it's a failure.
East Bay Express |
Melissa Levine |
05-16-2005 |
Reviews
Club Lifenew
A dreamy mood movie, 3-Iron is at times deliciously sensual, creepily somnolent, whimsically spiritual, and disturbingly violent. But it is never quite coherent.
Legendary Parts: The Slint Legacy Becomes Realitynew
Slint has reunited for a tour. When they called it quits in 1991, that wasn’t headline news. Over the next dozen years, however, they would take on a legendary, almost sacred status.
Boston Phoenix |
Matt Ashare |
03-23-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
A Lot to Swallownew
Inside Deep Throat unveils the hardcore porn groundbreaker.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Dennis Harvey |
02-09-2005 |
Reviews
Band of Brothersnew
All families are complicated. The Nourallah Brothers are more complicated than most. One brother, Faris, has become afraid to leave the house while the other, Salim, has gone solo.
Dallas Observer |
Sarah Hepola |
02-07-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Michael Powell: Unlikely Crusadernew
A notorious moment on television allowed libertarian technocrat and FCC chair Michael Powell to save his career. The Great Deregulator morphed into the Moral Crusader.
Boston Phoenix |
Dan Kennedy |
12-23-2004 |
Media
The Man Who Rolled the Beatles' First Jointnew
Al Aronowitz says the '60s wouldn't have been the same without him. Now, as he types away alone in his cluttered New Jersey apartment, the "Blacklisted Journalist" looks back.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
12-03-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Bitter Bingonew
Tired of getting hit on in bars? We have no solution for you. But we do have a game that might make you happy when The Guy Who Compliments Weird Things or The Musician/Waiter shows up.
Baltimore City Paper |
Anna Ditkoff |
11-03-2004 |
Recreation
Mother Couragenew
Hanif Kureishi's new drama is an excellent film -- one that feels like life, sharpened to its finest points.
Phoenix New Times |
Melissa Levine |
10-19-2004 |
Reviews
Gallo's Polenew
Despite its formalistic failings and truly absurd Porn Moment, there's a morbidity here that feels quite genuine, and after the movie is over, it amounts to rough-hewn poetry.
A Dose of Suburbia: Chain Drugstores in the Citynew
Chain drugstores have been taking aim at downtowns and urban neighborhoods for several years now, and even as the industry shrinks, they are clinging to their unpopular building models that emphasize drive-throughs and lots of parking out front.
Metroland |
Miriam Axel-Lute |
09-23-2004 |
Business & Labor
RNC Protests: Don't March on the Grassnew
New York's City Hall has told protesters that Central Park's Great Lawn is off-limits during the Republican National Convention. So where's a good spot to congregate on a hot summer day? Try the West Side Highway.
Boston Phoenix |
David S. Bernstein |
08-16-2004 |
Politics
Delusions of Power
U.S. censorship and American propaganda are leading the country in the wrong direction.
Random Lengths News |
James Preston Allen |
06-15-2004 |
Commentary
