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PETER KEOUGH

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Peter Keough has been Film Editor at the Boston Phoenix since 1989 and has become a familiar figure at the office for his endearing habit of coming to work in pajamas and pestering people for soup. He describes his position as “the best deal a guy like me could get, being a tick on the butt of the entertainment industry.” He is a member of the Boston Society of Film Critics and The National Society of Film Critics and both organizations regret including him because of his tendency to stuff his pockets with free food from the lunch table during meetings and using his credentials in a vain attempt to pick up women. In his long tenure at The Phoenix he has reviewed thousands of movies, though he admittedly often confuses them with X-rated features he snuck into in the late 60s. Despite his busy schedule he found time to edit the book Flesh and Blood: The National Society of Film Critics on Sex, Violence and Censorship, published by Mercury House Press in 1995. Critics raved, declaring it “a book with a long title” and “full of amusing typos, factual errors and misspellings.” It sold over seventeen copies, most to now estranged family members and friends.

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Review: Precious

Purple's prose makes for wrenching melodrama
If you thought Celie in Alice Walker's The Color Purple had a tough time of it, wait till you get a load of Precious.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  November 18, 2009

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Invisible playmates

Paul Auster makes promiscuity a virtue
To judge from the titles of some of his recent novels — The Book of Illusion s, Oracle Night , Man in the Dark , and now Invisible — Paul Auster's fiction is receding, Samuel Beckett style, into non-existence.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  November 18, 2009

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Review: Planet 51

Even aliens get paranoid sometimes
The opening for the latest animated kids’ fantasy is promising — but it’s for another movie.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  November 18, 2009

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Review: 2012

Doom and doomer: the bullshit hits the fans
Doomsday is good therapy. What does it matter that billions die if that brings a family together in one big hug?
By PETER KEOUGH  |  November 12, 2009

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Review: Within the Whirlwind

Emily Watson faces her accusers
Those eager to compare the Obama administration to a Communist dictatorship might check out this story based on the memoirs of the poet Evgenia Ginzburg.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  November 11, 2009

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Review: (Untitled)

Jonathan Parker's a little too comfortably bourgeois
Woody Allen might have passed on making this film 35 years ago because it was too dated and middlebrow.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  November 11, 2009

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Review: Ten9Eight: Shoot for the Moon

Spellbound with spreadsheets, but without character development
Despite being pummeled by Mary Mazzio’s infomercial-like film into believing so, I still think that the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship is a worthwhile cause.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  November 11, 2009

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Review: The Men Who Stare at Goats

Bleating hearts tame Goats
Here’s a subject that really could have used a Stanley Kubrick or a John Frankenheimer or a Robert Altman. But are there any great cinematic satirists left, auteurs with the knack for black comedy and cold-blooded irony?
By PETER KEOUGH  |  November 06, 2009

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Review: Disney's A Christmas Carol

State-of-the-art technology allows actors to reach new heights of hamminess
Charles Dickens made a mint with readings of A Christmas Carol , but a century and a half of technological progress has not been kind to the property.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  November 09, 2009

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Review: Gentlemen Broncos

Jared Hess's latest geek fantasy
Having peaked with his debut, Napoleon Dynamite , Jared Hess has settled into being a family-friendly John Waters — which is redundant, since Waters is already rated PG-13.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  November 04, 2009

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Review: 35 Shots of Rum

Claire Denis's film goes down smooth, but with a subtle kick
Most American filmmakers would focus on the multicultural aspect of 35 Shots of Rum — Claire Denis takes it for granted that her characters are immigrants and doesn’t turn her film into a political discussion.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  October 28, 2009

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Review: American Casino

Putting a face on figures
If you’re still curious about what derivatives are after seeing Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story , Andrew and Leslie Cockburn’s drier, more in-depth examination of the meltdown and bailout might help.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  October 30, 2009

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Review: The Canyon

The scenery looks nice at least
The Canyon attests to how a first-rate character actor can elevate a poor film to the ranks of the mediocre.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  October 30, 2009

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Review: Eli and Ben

A different sort of opener for this year's Boston Jewish Film Festival
Unlike most opening-night crowd pleasers, Ori Ravid’s thoughtful coming-of-age tale starts off the Boston Jewish Film Festival with some ambiguity and edge.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  October 28, 2009

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Review: Antichrist

Lars von Trier’s screams from a marriage
Lars von Trier’s controversial freak-out is Saw VI as told by Carl Dreyer. Is that a good thing? It certainly has grabbed everybody’s attention. I’m torn between dismissing the film as gross-out juvenilia and regarding it as raw religious mythmaking.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  October 21, 2009

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Hardboiled hub

The city’s gritty, criminal underbelly has redefined the dark, artistic vision known as Boston noir
When I was growing up in Roslindale a few decades back — among tribes of ignorant, second-generation immigrant kids whose favorite words began with “f” and “n” and who liked to torture small animals and beat up small children before they moved on to their future vocations as petty criminals, dead dope users, or real-estate agents.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  October 21, 2009

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Interview: Lars von Trier of Antichrist

The director on the redeeming qualities of Antichrist
Maybe it’s the blurring effect of the Skype technology through which I’m interviewing him as he sits worried and Buddha-like in his headquarters in Denmark (he has a phobia about airplanes, among other things), but Lars von Trier seems like an okay guy.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  November 02, 2009

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Review: Amelia

Plane bad
The hallowed formula for an Oscar Best Picture nomination — legendary figure, pat rise and fall scenario, overproduced visuals and music, a showboating performance from a name actor, reassuring platitudes — falls flat in what is Mira Nair’s worst picture.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  October 29, 2009

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Review: Where the Wild Things Are

Jonze, Eggers, and Sendak aren’t kidding around
I can’t speak for the kids, but I would rate Spike Jonze & Dave Eggers’s adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s 40-page children’s picture book up there with Up and Wall•E as topping the recent renaissance in children’s movies. If pressed, I’d rank it close to The Wizard of Oz .
By PETER KEOUGH  |  October 19, 2009

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Review: St. Trinians

Earns a passing a grade
Some out-of-work A-list British actors end up at Hogwarts. Others must settle for St. Trinian’s.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  October 15, 2009
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