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Review: Anonymous

Absurd entertainment
For most folks, if Shakespeare didn't write those plays, it wouldn't be the end of the world. Nor does it seem a likely topic for Roland Emmerich, whose films usually are about the end of the world.
By PETER KEOUGH | October 25, 2011

Review: All's Faire In Love

Scott Marshall's Renn Faire stinker
It seems that before actually performing in a Renaissance Faire, actors first have to appear in a movie about one.
By PETER KEOUGH | October 25, 2011

Headstart! go where they wanna go

B real
There was a time when we wouldn't review EPs in this space (Sontiago is still bitter about it). Times have changed.
By SAM PFEIFLE | October 20, 2010

Fall Film Preview: Underground big-screen shows

The local film scene revs up for fall
One of the happiest and most unexpected developments in local arts culture over the past year has been the subtle yet persistent proliferation of DIY and/or locally-oriented movie nights in the area.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | September 15, 2010

Review: Great Directors

Documentary about filmmakers nearly derailed by its own not-so-great director
The chore is to blank out Greek filmmaker Angela Ismailos's clueless, indulgent voiceover and moony on-camera presence and enjoy the commentary of the filmmakers she's tracked down in Europe and America.
By GERALD PEARY | July 28, 2010

The Big Hurt: ICP take on magnets

Plus Slash loves Axl and Dre does Freddie
Would that I could simply post the entire lyric to “Miracles” by INSANE CLOWN POSSE and call it an article.
By DAVID THORPE | April 13, 2010

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Prep rally

Rock's rich history of boarding-school brats
Much of the early backlash that followed the Strokes' meteoric rise had to do with the idea that a '00s punk revival couldn't be spearheaded by a band of moneyed prep-school twerps — as if boarding school and rock stars didn't go together like marmalade and scones.
By DANIEL BROCKMAN | January 05, 2010

The Big Hurt: Woo ware

This one goes out to all the ladies
A friend of mine offered a suggestion: I should make a ton of money by compiling and selling the most foolproof ladykiller of a romantic mixtape ever conceived.
By DAVID THORPE | August 11, 2009

The Big Hurt: Devil music

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When I was around 10 years old, I wandered into a rural flea market and found one of the greatest pieces of music journalism ever written: a forgotten crank masterpiece called Backward Masking Unmasked that had been written in 1983 by Texan minister Jacob Aranza.
By DAVID THORPE | May 05, 2009

Royal pain

Mirren and Frears save The Queen
Every tragedy reaches a point where mourning turns to kitsch. Watch the trailer for The Queen (QuickTime)
By PETER KEOUGH | February 20, 2007