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Review: The Dilemma

Note to Vaughn: it's time to move on.
Such defining efforts as Cocoon and Apollo 13 seem light years away for Ron Howard after his meanderings in the pages of Dan Brown ( The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons ) and this tripe about men behaving badly.
By TOM MEEK | January 19, 2011

Review: Black Swan

Fowl play: Aronofsky, Portman take flight
Darren Aronofsky's bizarre and brilliant Black Swan might remind you of many other movies, from All About Eve to David Cronenberg's The Fly . But it's also like nothing you've ever seen before.
By PETER KEOUGH | February 24, 2011

A.F.I. | Crash Love

DGC Interscope (2009)
First they alienated hardcore kids; now they're alienating the Internet.
By BARRY THOMPSON | September 29, 2009

Review: Star Trek

Going boldly and well
The original Star Trek , after all, didn't even complete its five-year mission. Four spinoff TV series, 10 theatrical releases, and millions of dollars of merchandise later, the Enterprise goes back into space with the original cast, if not the original actors. Live long and prosper indeed.
By JEFFREY GANTZ | May 11, 2009

Hope springs infernal

Brimstone and buddy movies are on the Hollywood agenda
Given the current economic climate, spring this year is a season more of dread than of hope for change.
By PETER KEOUGH | March 16, 2009

Simple blood

Twilight puts the life back into the undead
Twilight puts the life back into the undead
By PETER KEOUGH | November 24, 2008

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Pants afire

Fakeries and the faking fakers who fake them
The ratio of falsehood to truth in the universe has not, of course, altered one jot since the world began.
By JAMES PARKER | March 13, 2008

The Ten

Hallelujah the hodgepodge
Winona Ryder, for example, plays a newlywed who gets sexually liberated by a dummy (the wooden kind).
By TOM MEEK | August 01, 2007

Potter-schmotter!

25 fantasy films that lock horns, swords, and wands with Harry Potter
No reading required.
By ELLEE DEAN AND MADDY MYERS | July 24, 2007

Midsummer muses

Smashing Pumpkins redux and Velvet Revolver
It’s been almost 20 years since Corgan first bared his barren soul to the world and not a whole lot has changed.
By MATT ASHARE | July 23, 2007

Smoking hot

Cigarettes on the silver screen
In honor of May 31, International No Tabacco Day, we’re listing the some of the most seminal smoking scenes on the silver screen.
By PHOENIX STAFF | June 01, 2007

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