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Control Freaks: 'Get Smart' Favors Dumb Slapstick over Cold War Tensionnew
The spy spoof trades cold-war tension for dumb slapstick.
Boston Phoenix |
Tom Meek |
06-19-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Peter Segal, Get Smart
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
Assy McGee is the Butt of the Jokenew
Clambake Animation has created one of the more unique characters ever to waddle across a television screen -- a walking, talking pair of heinie cheeks named Assy McGee.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
04-10-2008 |
TV
Soul Controlnew
VH1's new rock-doc treatment of James Brown's April 5, 1968, concert at Boston Garden -- The Night James Brown Saved Boston -- has a much broader scope than its title would suggest. And that's precisely why it's so good.
Boston Phoenix |
Adam Reilly |
04-03-2008 |
TV
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
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
Who I Amnew
A brief interview with Paris Hilton, in which it is revealed, "So I have, like, thousands of shoes." Then again, we asked.
Boston Phoenix |
Sharon Steel |
02-14-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
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
Masterpieces and Mysteriesnew
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that there cannot be too many Jane Austen adaptations for film and television, and PBS stations have compiled seven for an all-Jane week. Plus, a look at the Jane Austen mystery novels.
Boston Phoenix |
Jefffrey Gantz |
01-10-2008 |
TV
Tags: TV, The Complete Jane Austen
Lifting the Veilnew
If we've learned anything in the past five or so years of our foreign policy, it's that we should know a few things about a country -- its history, people, culture, and religion -- before bombing the crap out of it.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
01-10-2008 |
Reviews
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
Never See TVnew
Striking WGA writers want the TV industry to know "what kind of fantastic blockbusters and hit TV shows and dinner-time background noise that America is missing out on."
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Millard |
12-11-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
Tila Tequila Terrifies Menew
Tila Tequila's ass-ets and what's really scary about this former Pants Off Dance Off phenom turned MTV love object.
Boston Phoenix |
Sharon Steel |
11-15-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
The Wasted Landnew
Lethal baby farts have been cut, the better for Richard Kelly's doomsaying Donnie Darko follow-up to emphasize more-familiar threats to our national security -- including Justin Timberlake, Mandy Moore, and Kevin Smith.
Boston Phoenix |
Rob Nelson |
11-15-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Richard Kelly, Southland Tales
