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Review: Get Low

Duvall goes full hermit
Somewhere it must be written that once a veteran actor starts pushing 80, he has to play the role of a curmudgeonly hermit — preferably armed.
By PETER KEOUGH | August 04, 2010

Review: Inception

Set the snooze alarm
A haggard agent, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, is plagued by hallucinations of his wife and children while searching for the truth about a hospital for the criminally insane. . . . I'm sorry, that's Shutter Island . Where was I?
By PETER KEOUGH | February 24, 2011

Review: Harry Brown

The trouble with Harry
It's formula with a vengeance.
By PETER KEOUGH | June 09, 2010

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A royal scam

TBTS' terrific Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Admit it — we are all a little perverse. How else to explain the difficulty, unless you are comatose, in not laughing heartily at Dirty Rotten Scoundrels , the tale of two con men plying their criminal trade on the French Riviera.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | August 25, 2009

Review: Is Anybody There?

Bored boy befriends down-and-out magician
This seems to be the year for nostalgia films. Here we have relative newcomer John Crowley directing an English working-class yarn from Peter Harness's autobiographical script.
By PEG ALOI | April 29, 2009

Shuffling off to infamy

Buffalo doesn't have a counterfeiting problem — but it does need to curb its bad Bills
Tasering Donte . Sounds like a movie title, doesn't it?
By MATT TAIBBI | April 22, 2009

Muddled musical

A mostly rotten Scoundrels
We sure do love our stage rascals.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | March 24, 2009

Dramatic Success

Arts thrive at the Courthouse Center
The little black box theater that is West Kingston's Center Stage, with little room for scenery, has to be ingenious with its space.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | February 25, 2009

Crossword: ''Hit the bricks''

A classic case of one-upmanship
A classic case of one-upmanship
By MATT JONES | August 20, 2008

Darkness falls in the Dark Knight

Scars run deep in Christopher Nolan’s Götterdämmerung
“The night is darkest just before the dawn,” says District Attorney Harvey Dent in The Dark Knight .
By BRETT MICHEL | January 12, 2009

Flawless

Strange but slickly done
Demi Moore in a British heist caper and dressed like Jackie O?
By TOM MEEK | March 27, 2008

Sleuth

Michael Caine remaking Michael Caine
Think Carlton Fisk and Thurman Munson.
By MARK BAZER | October 17, 2007

America Blows

Since George W. Bush took office, the United States has sunk to unprecedented lows in sports and pop-culture domination
The United States of America is a nation with a proud history.
By MIKE MILIARD | June 29, 2007

Dark passage

Insemination, 12-hour tanning, and . . . modka
As we grind collectively toward the Apocalypse, let us pause for a moment to salute the last-ditch efforts of the Institute of Zoo and Wildlife Research.
By JAMES PARKER | June 05, 2007

A hero in Pawtucket

French fete McBurney with Legion of Honor
John Jr. is the paterfamilias.
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | May 30, 2007

Portland scene report: February 16,2007

Sibilance starts now
Pigboat have posted a “new” tune on MySpace, “Ted Kennedy Dance Mix Radio,” which is actually the first-ever Pigboat tune, recorded in 2003.
By PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | February 14, 2007

Reflections on a golden filmmaker

John Huston at the Brattle
John Huston had such a long, illustrious career as a film director — just a few years short of half a century — that any series in his honor that isn’t comprehensive has to feel truncated.
By STEVE VINEBERG | September 27, 2006

Glower power

The films of Peter Whitehead at the HFA
It’s a mysterious career. To Whitehead’s credit, it’s not a career in the normal sense at all.
By A.S. HAMRAH | September 06, 2006

The ball buster

Celebrating the career of John C. McGinley
You could make a convincing argument, particularly if you’re under 30, that John C. McGinley is better known for his role in Office Space than his role in Platoon.
By RYAN STEWART | June 29, 2006

Not ready for prime time

The 20 best and 20 worst performances from SNL alumni
With the release of yet another film starring former Saturday Night Live stars trying in vain to recapture the glories of their Lorne Michaels days - that would be The Benchwarmers starring David Spade and Rob Schneider
By RYAN STEWART | April 13, 2006

Grow jobs

Why penis enlargement is poised to become the next big thing
Until a few years ago, Tom Hubbard didn't put much stock in penis enlargement.
By CHRIS WRIGHT | October 27, 2008

Ralph Hamilton

1946–2006
My lovable, impossible friend of more than 30 years, the artist Ralph Hamilton, died on February 19, of complications from diabetes. He was only 59. It’s a very sad loss. He was one of Boston’s most original and searching painters and had been doing some of his most ambitious and moving work.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ | March 09, 2006

In all languages

Winter concert preview: looking ahead to jazz in 2006
For the past half decade or so, saxophonist Chris Potter has alternately traveled with two of the best bandleaders in jazz, Dave Holland and Dave Douglas.
By JON GARELICK | January 14, 2006