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Paul Newman (1925-2008)

Remembering a movie star who turned himself into a great actor
Paul Newman, who died last weekend at the age of 83, was that rarest of creatures, a movie star who turned himself into a great actor.  
By: STEVE VINEBERG  |  October 01, 2008

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Interview: Simon Pegg

Shaun of the Dead star on losing friends, alienating people, and wanking off to Gillian Anderson
Thirty-eight-year-old British actor Simon Pegg’s US star has been on the rise since his zombie-movie parody Shaun of the Dead shuffled into multiplexes back in 2004.  
By: BRETT MICHEL  |  October 01, 2008

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Movies on the Midcoast

From simulated battlegrounds to Bristol Bay at the Camden International Film Festival
Yet again, this year’s festival tackles an admirable hodgepodge of subjects — online gaming junkies, Harry Potter fanatics, and even Cockney gangsters in London’s East End.
By: CHRISTOPHER GRAY  |  September 24, 2008

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Light Reading

The Coen Brothers have talent to Burn
Every now and then so-called independent filmmakers have to make money and prove to the studios that they have some traction at the box office.
By: PETER KEOUGH  |  September 09, 2008

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Autumn peeves

Films with a full agenda
With pundits already reading political significance into summer blockbusters like The Dark Knight (“Is Batman a stand-in for George Bush? Discuss.”), the meatier movies of fall arrive not a moment too soon.
By: PETER KEOUGH  |  September 11, 2008

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Beautiful Losers

Shallow, reverent
Aaron Rose’s Beautiful Losers offers little more than a chance to see nice people talk about their nice-looking art.
By: CHRISTOPHER GRAY  |  September 03, 2008

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The play's the thing

Steve Coogan masters tragic irony in Hamlet 2
Like Tropic Thunder , Hamlet 2 makes its satirical intent known straight away with a flurry of phony, funny commercials.
By: PETER KEOUGH  |  August 19, 2008

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Two days, a theme, and a prop

Overnight developing
If you see a bunch of people running around town this weekend singing and dancing, John Wayne style, you can bet they drew “Musical or Western” as their 48 Hour Film Project genre.
By: DEIRDRE FULTON  |  August 13, 2008

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Tropic Thunder

Tropic Thunder is stupid-funny
Despite a few soft spots along the way, Thunder combines the dark absurdity of Stiller’s underrated Cable Guy with the unrestrained dumbness of his Zoolander .
By: PETER KEOUGH  |  August 13, 2008

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The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2

Disjointed, sketchy, and saccharine
Like Sex and the City: The Movie, Sanaa Hamri’s continuation of the journey of a pair of jeans that magically fit four girls of disparate genes feels tailored for the small screen.
By: BRETT MICHEL  |  August 05, 2008

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The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Empire

A flashy, ludicrous threequel
Lines like “I will crush any idea of freedom!” may or may not be intended to reflect current Chinese leadership.
By: CHRIS WANGLER  |  August 05, 2008

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The X-Files: I Want To Believe

You’ll want to believe this movie was never made
X-Files creator Chris Carter resurrects Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, only they’re no longer special, and neither are they agents.
By: BRETT MICHEL  |  July 30, 2008

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Flying high

Is The Dark Knight the best movie ever?
Every summer, it seems like another superhero movie has broken some box-office record or other and made movie history.
By: PETER KEOUGH  |  July 23, 2008

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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  |  July 16, 2008

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Our superheroes, ourselves

What the current crop of comic-book action movies tells us about America's identity crisis
Is there a breed of person more tenderly optimistic, more winsomely hopeful for the best, more loyal to the possibility of good, than the American summer moviegoer?
By: JAMES PARKER  |  July 09, 2008

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The ultimate balancing act

An extraordinary documentary opens the 2008 Maine International Film Festival
About 100 films deep, MIFF ’08 has intriguing offerings for cineastes of all stripes. Here’s a slice of what to look out for.
By: CHRISTOPHER GRAY  |  July 09, 2008

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Control freaks

Get Smart dumbs down
Back in the ’60s, those crafty cranks Mel Brooks and Buck Henry spun the red-scare spook biz into a sit-com full of wit and absurdity featuring rival agencies KAOS and Control.
By: TOM MEEK  |  June 17, 2008

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Hulk sulk

The new version keeps his pants on
After two hugely budgeted adaptations in five years, my biggest question about the Hulk remains: what’s with the pants?
By: PETER KEOUGH  |  June 10, 2008

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Ignoring the void

Surfwise leaves the ties that bind knotty and frayed
A deceptively conventional, open-minded documentary.
By: CHRISTOPHER GRAY  |  May 21, 2008

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Numb Skull

Indiana Jones’s mild Kingdom
You can’t say they don’t warn you.
By: PETER KEOUGH  |  May 22, 2008
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