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Review: The Company Men

We're supposed to feel sorry for this guy?
Call it compassion fatigue, but I can't muster a lot of sympathy for Bobby Walker when he gets laid off and has to sell his Patriots season tickets.
By PETER KEOUGH | January 19, 2011

Pointing fingers in the Gulf

The disaster was waiting to happen; kudos for Grover; and gangsta talk
Now that we have enlisted the aid of James Cameron, Kevin Costner, Betty White, and the Olneyville New York System Oil, Olestra, and Anal Leakage Institute to help plug the BP underwater gusher in the Gulf of Mexico, let’s take a look at what is really behind this debacle.
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | June 09, 2010

Review: Love Happens

Melodrama also happens
Half an hour into the screening of this tearjerker from Brandon Camp, three women exited. They made the right choice.
By BRETT MICHEL | September 23, 2009

Swing Vote

Politically neutral father/daughter drama
Some clever scenes lay bare the excesses of campaign TV culture, but overall the humor is as lame as anything on the Blue Collar Comedy Tour .
By CHRIS WANGLER | July 30, 2008

Fishing for filmmakers

Maine struggles to attract the movie industry
When you can make Shreveport look like Bridgton for less money, what’s the bottom-line allure of filming in Maine?
By DEIRDRE FULTON | April 02, 2008

Mr. Brooks

A film with a split-personality
The press notes for Bruce A. Evans’s thriller begin with a quote from Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde .
By BRETT MICHEL | May 30, 2007

The Guardian

Stays afloat
Andrew Davis released The Fugitive to appreciative audiences back in 1993, and he’s been chasing box-office success ever since. Watch the trailer for The Guardian (QuickTime)
By BRETT MICHEL | September 27, 2006

The plot thickens

Oliver Stone rewrites history with lightning in JFK
This article originally appeared in the December 20, 1991 issue of the Boston Phoenix .
By PETER KEOUGH | August 10, 2006

Dirty rotten scoundrels

Kenneth Fearing’s prescient creeps
According to Fearing, American success consists of mediocrity, corruption, ruthlessness that’s so second nature it’s business as usual, paranoia that’s actually a sensible determination to watch your back.
By CHARLES TAYLOR | August 05, 2006