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Review: South of the Border

Oliver Stone's look at Hugo Chavéz, among others
Oliver Stone may have been easy on W. in his bio-pic, but he chops the dummy's head off in this revealing documentary about the social-welfare-minded neo-liberal leaders running South America, and the liars in the Bush administration who compared them to Hitler and bin Laden.
By CHRIS FARAONE | September 29, 2010

The Looey Guv lunacy; a few endorsements; notable quotes; fond farewells

Fodder by the ton
"You guys have the easiest job in the world," our fellow Vo Dilunders often tell Phillipe and Jorge. "There’s so much political fodder in this state you have enough material for a lifetime."
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | September 22, 2010

Review: Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

Not even Oliver Stone can make derivatives sound all that exciting
Oliver Stone can't be blamed for not knowing that his ironic "Greed is good" would be taken seriously as a motto by a generation of ruthless buccaneers.
By PETER KEOUGH | September 21, 2010

Four to watch for

From Cannes to the multiplex
These Cannes-debuting films will soon be appearing in your local neighborhood googleplex.
By LISA NESSELSON | May 26, 2010

Review: When You’re Strange

Doesn’t open any new Doors
If you’re a Doors fan, your inner Jim Morrison will be stoked by the vast archival footage in When You’re Strange .
By TOM MEEK | April 08, 2010

Interview: Ray Manzarek of the Doors

The return of the Lizard King, sort of
It’s been nearly 40 years since the death of Jim Morrison, but the surviving members of the Doors, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger and percussionist John Densmore have kept soldiering on, playing in various reformations of the ground-breaking band. The meteoric rise of the band is chronicled in the new documentary, When You’re Strange.
By TOM MEEK | April 05, 2010

Murderabilia

A serial killer seeks a payoff
Incarcerated in a maximum-security prison in Cranston, Rhode Island, Jeff Mailhot grabbed a pen and a sheet of stationery and traced an outline of his beefy left hand.
By JOHN LARRABEE | April 05, 2010

Silly season

Spring pimps for summer
Now that the Oscars are over, let's get dumb.
By PETER KEOUGH | March 09, 2010

Mean everything to nothing

True tax stories
My favorite movie-advertising phrase is "based on a true story." Translated into English, it means: "more or less, a big fat lie."
By AL DIAMON | January 13, 2010

The Doors | Live in New York

Rhino (2009)
In 1970, Doors producer Paul Rothchild assembled a tight “live set” out of a bunch of different concert recordings from the band’s 1969/early-1970 shows and Elektra released it as the Absolutely Live LP.
By GUSTAVO TURNER | December 09, 2009

Review: Z (1969)

Z lives on 40 years later
John F. Kennedy wasn't the only political leader murdered in 1963. On May 22 of that year, Gregoris Lambrakis, a left-leaning, pacifist member of the Greek parliament and an aspiring presidential candidate seeking to replace the reigning right-wing government, was assaulted after a peace rally in Thessaloniki. He died five days later.
By PETER KEOUGH | December 01, 2009

Lights out

Tila Tequila goes off. Plus, Lawrence Taylor takes a hard right-hand turn.
Not sure this has a whole lot to do with sports crime, but . . . it does involve Tila Tequila naked, so that's a start for an interesting exploration of something .
By MATT TAIBBI | November 25, 2009

Interview: Lone Scherfig

An Educated Lady
Born in Denmark in 1959, Lone Scherfig first gained international attention in 2000 with Italian for Beginners, a charming little film that won her the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. A couple of years later, she followed up with Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself, her first English-language effort, filmed in Scotland and starring Adrian Rawlins and Shirley Henderson.
By BRETT MICHEL | November 16, 2009

The plots thicken

9/11 Truthers, Tea Parties, Birthers — conspiracy is in the air. No wonder Hollywood is embracing paranoia.
Eight years after the destruction of the World Trade Center — the result of one of the most devastatingly successful conspiracies in history — Americans still take comfort in paranoia.
By PETER KEOUGH | September 11, 2009

Review: Virtual JFK: Vietnam If Kennedy Had Lived

What would JFK do?
There's not much "virtual" in Kosi Masutani's thoughtful if artless documentary about the JFK administration — which is to its credit.
By PETER KEOUGH | April 08, 2009

Oscar predictions: Liberal gilt

Oscar wants to be a Millionaire
It's like a fairy tale for Hollywood liberals.
By PETER KEOUGH | February 18, 2009

Review: Frost/Nixon

Tricky flick
Dick gets off easy in Frost/Nixon
By PETER KEOUGH | December 12, 2008

100 Unsexiest Men of the Year Follow-Up

Because There Was an Election
The problem with dropping our Unsexiest list in March of an election year is that we never know what kind of weasels, Republicans, and Republican weasels will urinate in America’s stream of consciousness down the final stretch.
By CHRIS FARAONE | December 12, 2008

W. gets a B

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

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

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

Smoke screens

Does a surge of stoner movies mean America is going to pot?
What does it say about America that marijuana movies are a hot genre right now, perhaps hotter even than in the heyday of Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong’s 1978 Up in Smoke ?
By PETER KEOUGH | August 18, 2008

The 16 greatest stoner movies

Our favorite marijuana movies
We’re picking the best 16 stoner films of all time — one for every easily weighable segment of an ounce.
By LANCE GOULD | August 11, 2008

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Prodigy

H.N.I.C. Pt 2 | AAC
By the time this goes to press, Prodigy will be roughly 10 books and 2000 push-ups deep into the three-and-change prison term he picked up last year for illegal gun possession.
By MARTÍN CABALLERO | April 22, 2008

Movie music

The BSO, Handel and Haydn, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, the Cantata Singers, David Daniels, and Teatro Lirico d’Europa’s Tosca
Classical music in 2008 Boston did not get off to a brilliant start.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ | January 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

All the Wright moves

The deadpan master is still happy not to laugh
“I was born. When I was 23 I started telling jokes. Then I started going on television and doing films. That’s still what I am doing. The end.”
By TED DROZDOWSKI | April 23, 2007

Of pols and pop culture

A fifth, and final, cardinal rule for presidential wannabes
The Tote Board’s preliminaries are almost over, meaning next week we begin to set the odds.
By STEVEN STARK | February 28, 2007

Factory guy

Images of Andy on the big screen
“If you want to know all about Andy Warhol,” Andy Warhol is quoted on the US Post Office stamp commemorating him in 2002, “just look at the surface: of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There’s nothing behind it.” Wasted again: Factory Girl isn’t the bio-pic Edie deserves. By Gary Susman
By PETER KEOUGH | February 07, 2007