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Apple loses its cool

Once the underdog cult darling battling the evil empire, Apple is fighting an image problem — and critics, who say it’s betrayed the digital revolution
Sheez, they’re getting awfully touchy out in Cupertino.
By WEN STEPHENSON | May 14, 2010

Review: Flame and Citron

Scandanavian Nazi-assassin film gets a bit bogged down
The two Danish Resistance fighters of the title ( Flammen og Citronen in the Danish original) don't have nearly as much fun killing Nazis as do Quentin Tarantino's Basterds.
By PETER KEOUGH | September 02, 2009

Hot Nazi beach reads

The new wave of Reich books: pop genres, good Germans
Nazis aren't blitzing just the movie screens this year, though — they're also invading the bookstores, with battalions of novels and non-fiction tomes published or upcoming.
By PETER KEOUGH | August 18, 2009

Conscientious objectors

Two films on being fanatic
How do people become fanatics? When does individual conscience take a stand?
By PETER KEOUGH | October 27, 2008

Don't expect too much

Politics and other mistakes
"We think we will be paid. We think we will be paid in full."
By AL DIAMON | August 12, 2008

A child of Hitler

Growing up in the Third Reich (a memoir)
This article originally appeared in the February 1, 1983 issue of the Boston Phoenix.
By ALFONS HECK | January 30, 2008

Loving abuse

No one can be ruder than your family, and the holidays provide the perfect stage for the kindest cuts of all
Oh, the holidays.
By KARA BASKIN | December 10, 2007

Ordure in the court

Barbet Schroeder’s L’avocat de la terreur
“He couldn’t be a terrorist, living in a cellar and eating canned food,” says a perceptive friend of the notorious French attorney Jacques Vergès.
By GERALD PEARY | November 06, 2007

Secrets and spies

Black Book ’s mismatched conventions
Paul Verhoeven has made a brilliant study of the origins and consequences of Fascism. That film, of course, is Starship Troopers.
By PETER KEOUGH | April 11, 2007

Only in The Movies

A virtual movie studio gives hope to gamers who really want to direct
The Movies , released by Activision in late 2005, is a video game that lays out a simple, beautiful tool set that empowers its players to create their own films.
By IAN MAISEL | August 11, 2006

Out of the shadows

Jean-Pierre Melville’s rediscovered gem
Jean-Pierre Melville's L’armée des ombres was dismissed and forgotten and only now is receiving US release.
By STEVE VINEBERG | June 14, 2006

Sophie Scholl: Die Letzten Tage|Sophie Scholl: The Last Days

Talky Oscar nominee inferior to other films on the subject
Germans dealing with the Nazi period have to excavate for local heroes who opposed Hitler’s regime in a forthright, courageous way.
By GERALD PEARY | March 10, 2006