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By | January 01, 0001

Review: Super 8

8 and a half
Arriving on a wave of secrecy that the projects of J.J. Abrams have become known for, Super 8 turns out to contain hardly any secrets at all.
By BRETT MICHEL | June 13, 2011

Review: Morning Glory

Rachel McAdams gets perky
Rachel McAdams gets perky
By PETER KEOUGH | November 10, 2010

The Unthanks | Here's the Tender Coming

Rough Trade (2010)
Rachel and Becky Unthank appear to have stepped out of another time and place.
By ZETH LUNDY | April 14, 2010

Hot Vulcan
If Leonard Nimoy’s acting work had been limited to that deliriously crazy music video for “The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins,” he’d probably still be celebrated by a lot of us.
By ROB TURBOVSKY | November 16, 2009

Cross country trek

A two-day mission
A two-day mission
By BRETT MICHEL | May 05, 2009

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

Science? Or fiction?

J.J. Abrams’s oddball Fringe
“It’s not an exact science,” Dr. Bishop says. His wise-ass son Peter interjects: “It’s not even science.”
By RYAN STEWART | September 08, 2008

Bewilderedbeests

Letters to the Boston editor: September 14, 2007
In two weeks of “Talking Politics” columns about Massachusetts politics, David S. Bernstein has left us bewildered about what candidates think.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | September 12, 2007

Mission implausible

Mission: Impossible III will self-destruct in 7500 seconds
Like the adrenaline shot that invigorates one of his characters, television wunderkind J.J. Abrams’s stab at the billion-dollar Tom Cruise spy franchise briefly gets your heart pounding, only to ultimately fail at bringing much-needed life to the latest reworking of Bruce Geller’s TV relic.
By BRETT MICHEL | May 05, 2006