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A timeline of time-travel movies
It's a good time for time-travel movies. Looper opens this week, joining Midnight in Paris , Men in Black 3 , The Sound of My Voice , and others as recent examples.

By: PETER KEOUGH | September 27, 2012

The Master — P.T. Anderson's controversial tour de force

Although Paul Thomas Anderson insists that all similarities are coincidental, his astounding new film The Master has riled up Scientologists.

By: PETER KEOUGH | September 20, 2012

Unlike his debut feature, In Bruges, the title of prolific playwright and filmmaker Martin McDonagh's hilarious, ingenious, and sneakily profound second movie, Seven Psychopaths, gives you a good idea of what you're in for.

By: PETER KEOUGH | September 24, 2012

Whack Jobs

Martin McDonagh’s second film, Seven Psychopaths
Unlike his debut feature, In Bruges, the title of prolific playwright and filmmaker Martin McDonagh's hilarious, ingenious, and sneakily profound second movie, Seven Psychopaths , gives you a good idea of what you're in for.

By: PETER KEOUGH | September 17, 2012

Interview: Leslye Headland on the women behaving badly in Bachelorette

Sins & Sensibility
Leslye Headland was flabbergasted.

By: PETER KEOUGH | September 07, 2012

Are we voting at the box office?

Movie projections
The accompanying chart classifies various big budget releases over the past 15 months according to their political leanings based on my interpretation of the film.

By: PETER KEOUGH | August 22, 2012

The Hollywood blockbuster guide to the politics of patriotism

Red, white, and blue screens
Patriotism may be the last resort of the scoundrel, but lately it's proven a hot property in Hollywood.

By: PETER KEOUGH | August 23, 2012

Interview: Julie Delpy explores her neuroses in New York

Days and Confused
Actress, screenwriter, singer, and songwriter Julie Delpy excels at many things, but what she really wants to do is direct.

By: PETER KEOUGH | August 17, 2012

Interview: The RiffTrax crew revisit another 'classic'

MST3K forever!
MST3K took its curtain call in 1999 after 10 years on cable, but the show's end ultimately liberated host Mike Nelson and the revolving cast of cinematic satirists.

By: BARRY THOMPSON | August 07, 2012

Interview: Zoe Kazan brings the write stuff to Ruby Sparks

In your dreams
Her parents are both Hollywood screenwriters, and her grandfather, Elia Kazan, was a legendary director, so it couldn't have been a surprise when Zoe Kazan chose a career in show business as opposed to, say, becoming an accountant or a park ranger.

By: PETER KEOUGH | August 01, 2012

Interview: Lauren Greenfield looks at The Queen of Versailles

Royal treatment
The Queen of Versailles ought to start with a disclaimer: "WARNING: This film may test your ability to laugh at the misfortune of assholes."

By: ROB TURBOVSKY | July 25, 2012

David Kornfeld’s high noon

The most exacting movie projectionist in Boston faces down what he sees as movie history’s most cataclysmic technological “advance”
Ian was warning me about David again.

By: CHRIS MARSTALL | July 25, 2012

Batman — From the comic to the chthonic

Wayne's World
Behind the cowl.

By: NICK JOHNSTON | July 20, 2012

The cast and crew shed light on The Dark Knight

Occupational hazards
More than your average comic-book-hero movie — Green Lantern (2011) and Fantastic Four (2005) come to mind — Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy has demonstrated an uncanny political insight and prescience.

By: PETER KEOUGH | July 18, 2012

Interview: Survivors speak out in Kirby Dick’s shocking War

Invisible no more
The career of documentarian Kirby Dick begins with aspects of individual sexuality, in films like 1986's Private Practices: The Story of a Sex Surrogate and 1997's Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist .

By: PETER KEOUGH | July 09, 2012

The Provincetown International Film Festival honors three indie icons

Triple edged
How do you know you're at the 14th annual Provincetown International Film Festival (June 13-17) and not some other cinephilic shindig?

By: PETER KEOUGH | June 20, 2012

Interview: Justin Theroux brings Rock of Ages to the screen

Heavy mettle
Long before Justin Theroux started getting attention as a movie actor — playing a filmmaker in David Lynch's Mulholland Drive, playing a dueling DJ in Ben Stiller's Zoolander — he couldn't decide whether to be another pretty face or to paint them.

By: ED SYMKUS | June 18, 2012

Aliens: a history

Looking back on past Phoenix reviews of Alien movies
The Phoenix has been reviewing Alien movies for longer than any of us can remember.

By: PHOENIX STAFF | June 07, 2012

A genetic analysis of the Alien franchise

Alien metamorphoses
From Alien to Prometheus .

By: PETER KEOUGH | June 06, 2012

All Things Alien

From Alien to Prometheus
Prometheus offered director Ridley Scott an opportunity to return to the franchise he created more than three decades ago and us a chance to look again at all the Alien spinoffs of the intervening years and their place in our cultural history. And, oh, Peter Keough also tell us what he thinks about the new movie.

By: PHOENIX STAFF | June 08, 2012

Secret identities get a workout in this summer’s movies

Hidden agendas
This summer, it's not enough for heroes to have superpowers; they have to suffer existentially as well.

By: PETER KEOUGH | June 05, 2012

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