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By | January 01, 0001

Thomas McCarthy's game plan for Win Win

Putting up w's
As an actor, he usually plays the colorful minor character. Which might explain why when he's a director, Thomas McCarthy's movies feature leading roles that would be bit parts in any Hollywood picture.
By PETER KEOUGH | March 25, 2011

Marwencol and Jafar Panahi star at Boston Society of Film Critics awards

Critical Acclaim Dept.
From Boston to Oscar.
By PETER KEOUGH | January 27, 2011

Review: Fair Game

Naomi Watts and Sean Penn tell the real Valerie Plame story
Naomi Watts and Sean Penn tell the real Valerie Plame story
By PETER KEOUGH | November 03, 2010

By | January 01, 0001

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

Interview: Dakota Fanning

Runaway talent
Dakota Fanning may be just 16 years old, but already she’s built a body of work that shames some starlets twice her age.
By BRETT MICHEL | April 13, 2010

Letter Rip

The Phoenix discovers secret messages in Hollywood-connected political correspondence
Hollywood celebrities who fancy themselves pols and pundits don’t just bring impassioned everyman views to the legislative banquet.
By CHRIS FARAONE | November 12, 2009

Flaherty's fix for the BRA

Letters to the Boston editor, August 21, 2009
Your recent article regarding the upcoming preliminary election for mayor of Boston, inaccurately portrays my proposal for the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA), the city’s planning and development agency.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | August 19, 2009

Review: Pedro

An inspiring life reduced to sound bites, clichés, and hugs
There's no other reason to see the film.
By PETER KEOUGH | April 28, 2009

69. Sean Penn and Hugo Chavez

HARVEY LECHE
Sean Penn can kick back with this Caracasshole all he wants, but he needs to seriously reevaluate his journalistic skillz. The laughably awful dud he penned for the December issue of The Nation should have been titled “I’m Cool Enough To Hang With Hugo Chavez.” We stopped taking him seriously just after he played Spiccoli and just before he married Madonna.
By Boston Phoenix Staff | March 25, 2009

Keough sweeps Oscars

Way better than average
Is our Phoenix film editor good, or what? This past week, Peter Keough predicted six major Oscar categories and earlier went out on a limb and called the two short-subject winners.
By CLIF GARBODEN | February 25, 2009

Live Blogging the Oscars 2009

Follow the Academy Awards in real time with our #Oscars Twitter feed and talk back live!
The Boston Phoenix's Chris Faraone and Sara Faith Alterman go blow-for-blow -- and shot for shot -- as the 2009 Academy Awards unfold live. Plus, follow real-time feedback from fellow viewers on our live #Oscars Twitter feed!
By SARA FAITH ALTERMAN AND CHRIS FARAONE | February 24, 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

By | January 01, 0001

Media kills hero pilot

Herd-mentality pack lacks sufficient imagination to find another story
US Airways Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, who pulled off the "Miracle on the Hudson" emergency landing, was found beaten to death by the national media.
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | January 28, 2009

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

By | January 01, 0001

Review: Milk

Van Sant's gay of reckoning
Van Sant's Milk of human kindness
By PETER KEOUGH | December 05, 2008

What Just Happened

Half-baked insider parody
“There isn’t a film there,” Ben tells the screenwriter. Sounds like What Just Happened .
By PETER KEOUGH | October 28, 2008

Wasilla rock city

Alaskan indie rockers on Palin: WTF?!
The Republican National Convention hardly attracted as many glitterati as its Democratic counterpart did a week earlier.
By CHRIS FARAONE | September 08, 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