AltWeeklies Wire
'The War' Is Swellnew
Ken Burns's WW2 documentary seeks to impose truth on the legend. Still, the specifics of WW2 have been such a closely guarded (Greatest) generational secret that you want him to say more.
Boston Phoenix |
Clif Garboden |
09-24-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
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
We Watch QubeTV So You Don't Have Tonew
On the video-sharing site "run by conservatives for conservatives," the racism is thinly veiled, the homophobia vigorous, the jingoism loud and proud.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
06-07-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
'Road' Rulesnew
An interview with Red Road director Andrea Arnold.
Boston Phoenix |
Gerald Peary |
05-10-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Andrea Arnold, Red Road
The Eyes Have Itnew
We've come a long way from Kieslowski's Red, in which a retired judge falls into disgrace for listening in on his neighbors -- now, spying on citizens is a virtue, no more so than in Britain, where it's estimated that the average person appears on camera some 300 times a day.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
05-10-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Andrea Arnold, Red Road
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
Purists and Touristsnew
The reputation of San Francisco's fabled 1967 alternative-culture explosion has suffered mightily at the hands of revisionists, apologists, and merchandisers -- now PBS takes a refreshingly honest look with Summer of Love.
Boston Phoenix |
Clif Garboden |
04-19-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
Planet of Assnew
Dirty pictures that aren't that dirty: what's the point in that? Exploring the limits of porn TV with Playboy's Naked Happy Girls and Fox's My Bare Lady.
Boston Phoenix |
James Parker |
01-18-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
'Babel' Rousersnew
Awards predictions for 2007; Oscar opts for liberal guilt.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
01-18-2007 |
Movies
Why Must I Be a Teenager in Love?new
Degrassi: The Next Generation and South of Nowhere put the dirt back in teen soaps.
Boston Phoenix |
Sharon Steel |
10-05-2006 |
TV
Tags: TV
Dam Shamenew
Spike Lee's New Orleans Requiem on HBO reverberates with the power of truth in a muted tone of dignity, tragedy and respect.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
08-21-2006 |
TV
Tags: TV
The Feel-Good Movie of the Summernew
Stone makes a movie on a politically loaded subject and tries really, really hard not to make it political, and he's still called a conspiracy nut, this time for not politicizing his subject.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
08-10-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Oliver Stone, World Trade Center
The Cartoon Network Goes Metalnew
Heavy metal remains fertile ground for satire on all fronts, but what sets the Cartoon Network's new animated series Metalocalypse apart is the reverence that precedes the ridicule.
Boston Phoenix |
Larissa Glasser |
08-03-2006 |
TV
Tags: TV
