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Review: Rampart

Oren Moverman's portrait of a rotten cop
The rotten cop flick has become a mini-genre of sorts, a subset of noir, going back at least to Orson Welles's Touch of Evil .
By PETER KEOUGH | February 15, 2012

Interview: Woody Harrelson cops a plea for Rampart

Officer down
Woody Harrelson knows bad guys; Natural Born Killers and No Country for Old Men set the bar for charismatic villains.
By ED SYMKUS | February 15, 2012

When traders equal traitors

Turncoats on Wall Street. Plus, ecori, celebrating Susan, and Rock ’n’ Roll
It is about time someone pointed out that the vile crooks of Wall Street aren’t just greedy, thieving bastards. They are, in fact, traitors to this country and its citizens.
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | April 28, 2010

Oscar predictions 2010

With 10 Best Picture noms, is Oscar up in the air? Our critic predicts.
After years of shrinking audiences and low-grossing Best Picture nominees, the Academy this year is hedging its bets.
By PETER KEOUGH | January 29, 2010

Review: The Messenger

The Iraq War hits suburbia
The Iraq War hits suburbia
By SHAULA CLARK | November 17, 2009

Review: 2012

Doom and doomer: the bullshit hits the fans
Doomsday is good therapy. What does it matter that billions die if that brings a family together in one big hug?
By PETER KEOUGH | November 12, 2009

Interview: Jesse Eisenberg and Woody Harrelson

Picking the brains of Zombieland 's stars
Vampires may have taken a bite out of the popular zeitgeist in the past couple of years, but the nearly $25 million in ticket sales that greeted the opening of Zombieland, as it shuffled into theaters this past weekend, just goes to prove that while flesh-eating ghouls might be (un)dead, you should never count them out.
By BRETT MICHEL | October 07, 2009

Review: Zombieland

Young actors need to make a living too.
Does it mean anything that Jesse Eisenberg's follow-up to Adventureland is Zombieland and that it also includes a theme park?
By PETER KEOUGH | October 05, 2009

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October lite

The outlook is still gloomy, but film finds time for childish things
We expected the vampires, the werewolves, the zombies, and the homicidal maniacs. Same thing with the android doubles, the alien abductors, the sexually abused pregnant teenager, the Apocalypse, and the post-Apocalypse. But kids' movies?
By PETER KEOUGH | September 17, 2009

Review: Management

Logic checks out
With a tip of the name badge to Norman Bates, a mama's boy of a motel manager hooks up with an emotionally stunted executive for a romance that's stiffer than a Radisson bedspread.
By ALICIA POTTER | May 13, 2009

Epochalypse soon

The end is nigh! Or not.
The end times do indeed commence on December 21, 2012. On that date, this fragile blue orb of ours will suddenly cease to be a very fun place to live.
By MIKE MILIARD | March 25, 2009

TransSiberian

A sleekly crafted Hitchcockian thriller
The payoff might be superficial, but the suspense and the intrigue compel.
By PETER KEOUGH | August 13, 2008

The Grand

Painfully funny poker fanatics
Having followed this band of winners and losers as they sort out their cards and their problems, you may just find yourself caring who wins in the final showdown.
By ELIZABETH FLOCK | April 02, 2008

Semi-pro

A grand idea
This Will Ferrell send-up attempts to do for bush-league basketball what Bull Durham did for baseball and Slap Shot for hockey.
By TOM MEEK | February 27, 2008

Quiet men

The Coens step back in No Country for Old Men
At heart, the Coen Brothers’ movies are about death — arbitrary, relentless, insidiously clever, with a gallows sense of humor.
By PETER KEOUGH | November 06, 2007

War zones

Fall films face terror at home and abroad
The party’s over. Time for the lessons to begin.
By PETER KEOUGH | September 12, 2007

Art of darkness

on an average day is well above
If the New Testament were rewritten for modern times in language that included four-letter words and psychotic outbursts against the inscrutable will of God, the Good Book might read something like John Kolvenbach’s on an average day .
By IRIS FANGER | August 22, 2006

Route 666

Natural Born Killers is Oliver Stone's comic debut
This article originally appeared in the August 26, 1994 issue of the Boston Phoenix .
By PETER KEOUGH | August 10, 2006

Scanner brained

Richard Linklater animates Philip K. Dick’s Darkly
In 1977, in his novel A Scanner Darkly , Philip K. Dick invented the perfect drug — at least from society’s point of view. True Dick?: Looking for fidelity to the cyber-punk master. By James Parker
By PETER KEOUGH | July 06, 2006

Prairie state

Altman spins Keillor’s Companion piece
I never listened to more than a few minutes of Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion .
By PETER KEOUGH | June 07, 2006

Politics as usual?

Or will Hollywood cover the issues in 2006?
Conspiracy, corruption, catastrophe — politics and world events sure can be exciting. Even the mainstream news is taking an interest.
By PETER KEOUGH | January 26, 2006