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Review: The Flowers of War

Unimpressive outing from Zhang Yimou
In 1937 the invading Imperial Japanese Army killed and raped thousands of people in the Chinese city of Nanjing. The atrocity has recently inspired two Chinese films, including Lu Chuan's City of Life and Death and this unimpressive outing from Zhang Yimou.
By PETER KEOUGH | January 17, 2012

Review: Shame

Fassbender is a winner in the Shame game
Director Steve McQueen has only made two films, but in them he explores two extremes of human experience.
By PETER KEOUGH | December 07, 2011

Tom Hooper's film looks like an Oscar winner

Speech impediments?
Given the change in political attitudes after the election of Barack Obama, a reactionary backlash following last year's progressive Oscars - in which Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win Best Director - might be no surprise. But who knew the Academy would get this fuddy-duddy?
By PETER KEOUGH | February 25, 2011

Oscar nominee predictions 2011: Social anxiety

Oscar looks back, turns inward
Last year's Oscar program had a celebratory feeling about it that's not always associated with the most watched ceremony in the world.
By PETER KEOUGH | February 24, 2011

Six Boston accents worthy of Oscar

Pahk the awahds in Hahvahd Yahd
Pahk the awahds in Hahvahd Yahd
By PETER KEOUGH | December 08, 2010

Interview: Mark Wahlberg

The good fight: the actor on bringing Micky Ward to the big screen
Mark Wahlberg on bringing Micky Ward to the big screen
By PETER KEOUGH | December 08, 2010

Review: The Fighter

Family feud: the toughest bouts are outside the ring
David O. Russell might not be the first name that comes to mind when picking a director for a rousing, true-life, Rocky -style boxing movie.
By PETER KEOUGH | February 24, 2011

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Review: Public Enemies

Michael Mann's reheated crime waive
The gangster movie ruled Depression-era cinema — and that might be cause for concern about our present economic difficulties should the genre make a comeback.
By PETER KEOUGH | July 01, 2009

Hard times

A former junkie looks back at tough days in Lowell
"You just shit yourself — every muscle, every joint aches. Your entire body cries for heroin. Just one bag of heroin, you know that's all you need, and you'll feel better."
By MIKE MILIARD | June 08, 2009

Review: Terminator Salvation

Terminator franchise can not be salvaged
The future has not been kind to the Terminator franchise.
By PETER KEOUGH | May 21, 2009

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8. Christian Bale

BRIT FUME
To paraphrase his own now infamous expletive-laced tantrum: what the fuck was Bale doing when he launched that embarrassing, inhumane tirade on the Terminator Salvation set? Is this guy professional or not? Shut the fuck up , Bruce! For fuck’s sake, man. Fucking amateur . Somebody should kick his fucking ass . Bale shouldn’t just be sorry. Next time, he should think for one fucking second.
By Boston Phoenix Staff | March 25, 2009

Crossword: ''60 clues go in''

But in this themeless puzzle, only one solver reigns victorious.
But in this themeless puzzle, only one solver reigns victorious.
By MATT JONES | March 18, 2009

Hope springs infernal

Brimstone and buddy movies are on the Hollywood agenda
Given the current economic climate, spring this year is a season more of dread than of hope for change.
By PETER KEOUGH | March 16, 2009

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2009 Oscar predictions

Martyr complex
This year the Oscars will honor the men who suffer for our sins and the women who don't wear make-up.
By PETER KEOUGH | February 11, 2009

Darkness falls in the Dark Knight

Scars run deep in Christopher Nolan’s Götterdämmerung
“The night is darkest just before the dawn,” says District Attorney Harvey Dent in The Dark Knight .
By BRETT MICHEL | January 12, 2009

Holy multiplicity, Batman!

A Caped-Crusader scorecard
A Caped-Crusader scorecard
By MIKE MILIARD | July 16, 2008

Our superheroes, ourselves

What the current crop of comic-book action movies tells us about America's identity crisis
Is there a breed of person more tenderly optimistic, more winsomely hopeful for the best, more loyal to the possibility of good, than the American summer moviegoer?
By JAMES PARKER | July 09, 2008

The unnamable

Todd Haynes’s not-Dylan movie
If Bob Dylan were a real movie director, I’m Not There is probably the movie he’d make about his own life
By JON GARELICK | November 20, 2007

Bat bummer

Could be verse: poetry ripped from the headlines
Lines upon learning that the actor Christian Bale, playing Batman in a new movie, has been unable to perform stunts in the waters of Hong Kong's Victoria Harbor due to high pollution levels
By JAMES PARKER | December 16, 2008