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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
Talkin' Trashnew
Footballers Wives is anything but desperate, and Love Monkey is no High Fidelity.
Boston Phoenix |
Jon Garelick |
02-09-2006 |
TV
Tags: TV
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
Fast Tonynew
As a Kiwi traveling to the Bonneville Salt Flats in hopes of setting the world's land-speed record, Anthony Hopkins projects more sex appeal than actors a third his age.
Boston Phoenix |
Brett Michel |
02-03-2006 |
Reviews
With Candor Comes Charmnew
Taking as your subject a sexual free-for-all might seem an exercise in excess, but in the case of this Joseph Lovett documentary, libido-on-display can serve as its own means for social change.
Boston Phoenix |
Colin Fleming |
02-03-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Joseph Lovett, Gay Sex in the '70s
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
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
Let's Get Lostnew
Last season's surprise supernatural success, Lost, has inspired no fewer than three imitators -- two of which will be off the air by the time you read this.
Boston Phoenix |
Chris Nelson |
01-09-2006 |
TV
Tags: TV
Power Pointnew
Woody Allen's location switch from New York to London has yielded his most bracing, sure-handed, satisfying film in at least a decade.
Boston Phoenix |
Gary Susman |
01-05-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Woody Allen, Match Point
