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2009 Oscar predictions

Martyr complex
This year the Oscars will honor the men who suffer for our sins and the women who don't wear make-up.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  February 11, 2009
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Dead end

Sam Mendes's not so Revolutionary Road
It's a masterful, devastating portrait of a marriage crumbling and a merciless critique of the torpor and predictability of 1950's suburbia.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  December 30, 2008
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Review: The Reader

Tiresome and callow
It's Christmas, and our thoughts turn toward the Third Reich.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  January 09, 2009
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Shaggy frog

Interview: Michel Gondry goes lo-fi
Michel Gondry is not a household name.
By BRETT MICHEL  |  February 20, 2008
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Masterpieces and mysteries

‘The Complete Jane Austen’ on WGBH, and making book on the Austen detectives
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that there cannot be too many Jane Austen adaptations for film and television.
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  January 14, 2008

The Austen adaptations



By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  January 09, 2008
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King and Queens

Romance + Cigarettes , plus Salton Sea
In Romance & Cigarettes , which opens this Friday at the Kendall Square, Gandolfini has been dropped by writer/director John Turturro into drab, treeless, white-ethnic Queens.
By GERALD PEARY  |  November 28, 2007

Crossword: 'Don't be shocked'

This is the current situation
This is the current situation
By MATT JONES  |  February 21, 2007
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Little Children

Bums out suburbanites and makes Oscar happy
Suburbia is hell, and serious Hollywood movies from The Graduate to American Beauty have been there to point fingers on the lawns of the damned. Watch the trailer for Little Children  (QuickTime)
By A.S. HAMRAH  |  February 20, 2007
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Background chatter

Ricky Gervais’s hilarious Extras
Thanks, Ricky Gervais, for getting the dread “A” word into the open: ATHEIST!
By GERALD PEARY  |  February 06, 2007

Babel rousers

Oscar opts for liberal gilt
It’s not often that I feel this way, but this year I’m kind of proud of my profession.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  January 17, 2007
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The Holiday

A safe box office bet
A reminder to all producers: alluding to iconic romantic comedies in a bid for legitimacy can be a dangerous game, even when you have appealing stars. Watch the trailer for The Holiday  (QuickTime)
By BROOKE HOLGERSON  |  December 06, 2006
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Flushed Away

Not just a title
In its first foray into computer animation, Aardman ( Wallace & Gromit ) retains its lovably lumpy, Claymation look. Watch the trailer for Flushed Away  (QuickTime)
By ALICIA POTTER  |  November 01, 2006
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Stark realization

Steve Zaillian can’t put All the King’s Men together again
Zaillian gives a workout to the elements that make this book such a favorite with high-school English teachers: the neat symbolism, the themes of good and evil, guilt and innocence. But the ideas remain abstract. Watch the trailer for All the King's Men (QuickTime) King maker: The director on the campaign trail. By Peter Keough
By PETER KEOUGH  |  September 22, 2006
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Dream job

Michel Gondry is skilled in the science of film
In a recurring scene in Michel Gondry’s La science des rêves , Stéphane (Gael García Bernal), who’s clad in a tight-fitting lavender suit, frantically runs around his “television studio,” its walls constructed from egg cartons, its cameras from cardboard. Watch the trailer for The Science of Sleep (QuickTime)
By BRETT MICHEL  |  September 22, 2006
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Tristan & Isolde

 
Everything you expect from a mainstream adaptation of an ancient legend is here: grand vistas, mist and blood, brooding romantic score, PG-rated nude lovemaking.
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  January 14, 2006

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