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Review: Quantum of Solace

Little Solace for Bond fans
Little Solace for Bond fans
By: PETER KEOUGH  |  November 14, 2008
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Synecdoche, no fun date movie

Doomsday is just a state of mind in Synecdoche, New York
The end of the world has always appealed to movie audiences, no more so than now that the prospect is looking more and more likely.
By: PETER KEOUGH  |  November 10, 2008
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Iranian film festival brings the absurd, romantic

Sex and drugs rock the Boston Festival of Films from Iran
Sex and drugs rock the Boston Festival of Films from Iran
By: PETER KEOUGH  |  November 07, 2008
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Kaufman on misogyny, stool-samples

Straight poop
People either love or hate Charlie Kaufman.
By: PETER KEOUGH  |  November 04, 2008
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Knee Deep in murder

Michael Chandler on his documentary, Knee Deep
Michael Chandler’s documentary, Knee Deep is less a whodunit than a who-wouldn’t-have-done-it.
By: CHRISTOPHER GRAY  |  October 29, 2008
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W. gets a B

Josh Brolin prevails over Oliver Stone’s shaky portrait
By: PETER KEOUGH  |  October 15, 2008
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Putting up W’s

Screen depictions beat around the Bush
How is it that the least popular and possibly worst chief executive in American history has inspired no lasting impersonations?  
By: PETER KEOUGH  |  October 15, 2008
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Paul Newman (1925-2008)

Remembering a movie star who turned himself into a great actor
Paul Newman, who died last weekend at the age of 83, was that rarest of creatures, a movie star who turned himself into a great actor.  
By: STEVE VINEBERG  |  October 01, 2008
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Interview: Simon Pegg

Shaun of the Dead star on losing friends, alienating people, and wanking off to Gillian Anderson
Thirty-eight-year-old British actor Simon Pegg’s US star has been on the rise since his zombie-movie parody Shaun of the Dead shuffled into multiplexes back in 2004.  
By: BRETT MICHEL  |  October 01, 2008
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Movies on the Midcoast

From simulated battlegrounds to Bristol Bay at the Camden International Film Festival
Yet again, this year’s festival tackles an admirable hodgepodge of subjects — online gaming junkies, Harry Potter fanatics, and even Cockney gangsters in London’s East End.
By: CHRISTOPHER GRAY  |  September 24, 2008
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Light Reading

The Coen Brothers have talent to Burn
Every now and then so-called independent filmmakers have to make money and prove to the studios that they have some traction at the box office.
By: PETER KEOUGH  |  September 09, 2008
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Autumn peeves

Films with a full agenda
With pundits already reading political significance into summer blockbusters like The Dark Knight (“Is Batman a stand-in for George Bush? Discuss.”), the meatier movies of fall arrive not a moment too soon.
By: PETER KEOUGH  |  September 11, 2008
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Beautiful Losers

Shallow, reverent
Aaron Rose’s Beautiful Losers offers little more than a chance to see nice people talk about their nice-looking art.
By: CHRISTOPHER GRAY  |  September 03, 2008
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The play's the thing

Steve Coogan masters tragic irony in Hamlet 2
Like Tropic Thunder , Hamlet 2 makes its satirical intent known straight away with a flurry of phony, funny commercials.
By: PETER KEOUGH  |  August 19, 2008
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Two days, a theme, and a prop

Overnight developing
If you see a bunch of people running around town this weekend singing and dancing, John Wayne style, you can bet they drew “Musical or Western” as their 48 Hour Film Project genre.
By: DEIRDRE FULTON  |  August 13, 2008
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Tropic Thunder

Tropic Thunder is stupid-funny
Despite a few soft spots along the way, Thunder combines the dark absurdity of Stiller’s underrated Cable Guy with the unrestrained dumbness of his Zoolander .
By: PETER KEOUGH  |  August 13, 2008
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The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2

Disjointed, sketchy, and saccharine
Like Sex and the City: The Movie, Sanaa Hamri’s continuation of the journey of a pair of jeans that magically fit four girls of disparate genes feels tailored for the small screen.
By: BRETT MICHEL  |  August 05, 2008
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The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Empire

A flashy, ludicrous threequel
Lines like “I will crush any idea of freedom!” may or may not be intended to reflect current Chinese leadership.
By: CHRIS WANGLER  |  August 05, 2008
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The X-Files: I Want To Believe

You’ll want to believe this movie was never made
X-Files creator Chris Carter resurrects Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, only they’re no longer special, and neither are they agents.
By: BRETT MICHEL  |  July 30, 2008
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Flying high

Is The Dark Knight the best movie ever?
Every summer, it seems like another superhero movie has broken some box-office record or other and made movie history.
By: PETER KEOUGH  |  July 23, 2008
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