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Shaw business

The HFA proves there’s more to Hong Kong than kung fu
The Shaw Brothers dominated Hong Kong film production in the ’60s and ’70s, and they produced not only martial-arts epics but also musicals, ghost stories, and melodramas.

By: PETER KEOUGH | May 28, 2008

Frill rides

Getting an Indy history lesson on DVD
Looking back on a time when action sequences unfolded without the currently fashionable veil of rapid editing and CGI.

By: PETER KEOUGH | May 22, 2008

Numb Skull

Indiana Jones’s mild Kingdom
You can’t say they don’t warn you.

By: PETER KEOUGH | May 22, 2008

A Four Letter Word(1)

Truth in stereotypes?
At a certain point in its history, a movie genre achieves self-reflection, pondering the validity of its conventions before it sets forth toward self-parody.

By: PETER KEOUGH | May 14, 2008

The Dhamma Brothers

Meditation rehabilitating prisoners
Since the US has more people in prison than any other country, shouldn’t we be working on an effective method of rehabilitation?

By: PETER KEOUGH | May 14, 2008

Duplicate Prince

Caspian walks the lion
“Things never happen the same way twice,” says the messianic lion Aslan (voiced by Liam Neeson) near the end of Prince Caspian .

By: PETER KEOUGH | May 14, 2008

Mister Lonely

Weird meets revelatory unsuccessfully
Harmony Korine aspires to the weird and revelatory but too often achieves the merely creepy.

By: PETER KEOUGH | May 07, 2008

Saving bonds

Unconventional wisdom at the Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
Moral and ethical quibbles aside, society’s objection to queers amounts to a question of power.

By: PETER KEOUGH | May 06, 2008

Iron Man

Robert Downey, Jr. saves the day
Though a Marvel Comics fan, I never thought much of Iron Man.

By: PETER KEOUGH | May 01, 2008

Bad seeds?

Errol Morris checks the apples, not the tree, in Standard Operating Procedure
For Errol Morris, film doesn’t show reality, it organizes it in an attempt at arriving at the truth.

By: PETER KEOUGH | April 30, 2008

The World Unseen

Totally toothless
The ladies should demand something better.

By: PETER KEOUGH | April 30, 2008

A Four Letter Word

Self-reflection and parody
At a certain point in its history, a movie genre achieves self-reflection, pondering the validity of its conventions before it sets forth toward self-parody.

By: PETER KEOUGH | April 30, 2008

Seoul mates

The films of Lee Chang-dong
Korean filmmakers reinvent Hollywood genres and conventions much the way their Asian counterparts do, but my sense is that they tend to put everything in a broader context.

By: PETER KEOUGH | April 29, 2008

Photo op?

In Errol Morris’s Standard Operating Procedure , a picture is worth a thousand words
After 11 days on the road promoting Standard Operating Procedure , his film about the Abu Ghraib prisoner-abuse scandal, Errol Morris is back in his Cambridge office.

By: PETER KEOUGH | May 01, 2008