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Review: Red Riding

Yorkshire pudding
The '70s were ugly enough wherever you lived, but to judge from the three 2009 British TV movies adapted from David Peace's Red Riding quartet (each novel named after a year between 1974 and 1983 — 1977 somehow got lost in the shuffle), nowhere more so than in the West Riding of Yorkshire
By PETER KEOUGH | February 16, 2010

Style meets stylus

Eastern-inspired digital delights at the Brattle
It's a credit to Pixar's success that so many animated films of the past decade have been compelled to sport the sheen of CGI. But now that filmmakers have wrung reality out of 1's and 0's, they're starting to cast their eyes on the next frontier.
By SHAULA CLARK | June 16, 2009

Black and white and red all over

The stylish ultraviolence of MadWorld
The most common problem afflicting video games these days is a deficit of imagination. So many releases look alike, sound alike, and play alike.
By MITCH KRPATA | April 02, 2009

The pile-up

A blizzard of new games
No longer is there an off-season or even a chance to catch our breath after the fall deluge.
By MITCH KRPATA | December 31, 2008

Review: The Spirit

Awful on every level
Awful on every level
By PETER KEOUGH | December 23, 2008

Cinema of Shadows

We’re five years into the Iraq crisis, and Hollywood hasn't made a film about the war. Or is every film is about the war?
It’s not likely, but Judd Apatow’s pitch for Knocked Up might have sounded something like this.
By PETER KEOUGH | June 06, 2007

300

So much testosterone...
Outside a Chippendale show you’ll never see this many half-clad beefcakes in a single gander.
By TOM MEEK | March 06, 2007

Storyboarding

Brian K. Vaughan’s world of comics
Brian K. Vaughan is one of the highest-profile writers in American comics right now, a hyper-prolific idea man whose projects are driven by crisp, suspenseful pacing and built around resonant metaphors.
By DOUGLAS WOLK | January 02, 2007