SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS October 12 » 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. There are indeed seven psychopaths, played by the usual suspects — actors such as Christopher Walken, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, and Tom Waits. ut then it gets complicated. Storylines multiply, the distinctions blur between what is imagined and what is real, and allusions to movies pile up as rapidly as the body count.
Related:
Review: Remember Me, Review: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The Big Hurt: Clench and release(1), More
- Review: Remember Me
Director Allen Coulter bites off more than he can chew in this rote romantic drama.
- Review: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
How are the kids going to take to preachy C.S. Lewis after the pagan Harry Potter and the titillating Twilight ?
- The Big Hurt: Clench and release(1)
Press-release time again!
- Sonny, Pat, and all the cats
The primo jazz event of the spring will be SONNY ROLLINS 's concert at Symphony Hall on April 18 (bso.org). The great master saxophonist and peerless improviser often hits town in April, and this time it's to kick off his 80th-birthday tour. Whew.
- PHX @ SXSW!
Don't be so shocked if the coming week brings with it not just a stretch of balmier weather but also a palpable decrease in the douche point. That's because the vast majority of the music industry has up and JetBlued 2000 miles south to Austin for SXSW (a/k/a South by Southwest).
- Must Flee TV?
If Jersey Shore and Last Comic Standing had a threesome with Curb Your Enthusiasm in the men’s room of Great Scott, the bastard issue might look a little something like Quiet Desperation .
- Review: Prodigal Sons
Adopted four weeks after he was born and brought up in Helena, Montana, Marc McKerrow suffered through the stress of being compared with his brother, Paul, his high school's valedictorian and star quarterback.
- Review: The Art Of The Steal
Henri Matisse once declared the Barnes Foundation "the only sane place to see art in America."
- Review: My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?
Not so much Werner Herzog's return to his former persnickety, off-the-wall, idiosyncratic feature-film-making self as a reprise of his greatest hits, the overloaded My Son, My Son staggers and sometimes comes to a complete halt.
- Review: The Yellow Handkerchief
Like Tony Orlando & Dawn's 1973 #1 single, "Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Old Oak Tree," Udayan Prasad's Southern-fried sudser descends from a 1971 column Pete Hamill penned for the New York Post .
- Photos: Silversun Pickups at the Ames Hotel
Photos of the Silversun Pickups' visit to the Ames Hotel
- Less
Topics:
Features
, Anna Karenina, twilight, Lincoln, More
, Anna Karenina, twilight, Lincoln, Life of Pi, Cloud Atlas, fallpreview2012, Seven Psychopaths, Less