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Were the World Mine

A clumsy, queer take on the Bard
High School Musical 3 not quite the gay romp you were hoping for?
By BRETT MICHEL | December 03, 2008

Going on sale: September 19, 2008

Breaking news from the concert ticket trade
Barbara Morgenstern, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Los Straitjackets and more.
By GOING ON SALE | September 17, 2008

Learning curves

SpeakEasy’s The History Boys; Trinity’s Paris by Night
From Mr. Chips to Miss Jean Brodie, charismatic teachers have been the stuff of drama.
By CAROLYN CLAY | May 08, 2008

Dance, Monkey: Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim

We put visiting comics on the hot seat
Kenyans are fast runners. They have endurance and can keep up with Mr. McCain. (Note: it’s Josh McCain, right? You might want to double-check that.)
By SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | April 15, 2008

Words in action

Wild Porcelain lives up to its name
Have you ever had one of those dreams where a lot of wacky things don’t make much sense, but your psyche is having such a good time pumping them out that you wake up shaking your head laughing?
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | December 04, 2007

August Rush

An antidote to intelligence and insight
Kirsten Sheridan’s movie is about Music: how Music connects all of us, how Music is everywhere, how all Music is uplifting, dammit, no matter what.
By RICHARD BECK | November 20, 2007

Bad will hunting

Ben is back with Gone Baby Gone
Films about Boston tend to be no better than their worst Boston accent.
By PETER KEOUGH | October 18, 2007

War zones

Fall films face terror at home and abroad
The party’s over. Time for the lessons to begin.
By PETER KEOUGH | September 12, 2007

Dirty politics

Has the Right Wing hijacked raunch?
The last resort of the true patriot is a fart joke.
By PETER KEOUGH | October 27, 2008

Potter-schmotter!

25 fantasy films that lock horns, swords, and wands with Harry Potter
No reading required.
By ELLEE DEAN AND MADDY MYERS | July 24, 2007

License to wed

Sniveling toady of a film
From its anonymous title down to every last moment of its pleading humor and shoehorned uplift, License To Wed is soaked in sloth and cowardice.
By CHRIS BRAIOTTA | July 03, 2007

Scotch on the rocks

Billy Connolly perseveres with his ad-libbed life
Billy Connolly regularly has sex with farm animals.
By JIM SULLIVAN | May 31, 2007

Golden anniversary

The SF Film Fest turns 50
Happy 50th anniversary to the San Francisco Film Festival.
By GERALD PEARY | May 16, 2007

Happy Feet

Equals sappy feet
Taking up where March of the Penguins left off, George Miller’s animated film imagines penguins who find love based on their heart songs — songs from the soul that speak to the penguin they’re meant to be with. Watch the trailer for Happy Feet (QuickTime)
By BROOKE HOLGERSON | February 20, 2007

Night at the Museum

Matinee worthy, but not a dime more
“This is not worth $11.50 an hour,” blurts exasperated dreamer Larry Daley when his night-watchman job at New York’s Museum of Natural History takes on a life of its own. Watch the trailer for Night at the Museum (QuickTime)
By BRETT MICHEL | December 28, 2006

Guest appearance

Comedy is hard in For Your Consideration
Those who expect ingratiating clowning and motormouth shtick from Christopher Guest, funny-ha-ha filmmaker of Waiting for Guffman , Best of Show , and A Mighty Wind , guess again. In public, he’s deadpan and somber.
By GERALD PEARY | November 14, 2006

Man of the Year

Not the movie of the year
“The free world will be led by a comedian,” intones pundit Chris Matthews in Barry ( Wag the Dog ) Levinson’s latest fusion of humor and politics. Watch the trailer for Man of the Year (QuickTime)
By BRETT MICHEL | October 11, 2006

Life, examined

Delving deeper with Mike Daisey
Solo performer Mike Daisey has been described as a cross between Noam Chomsky and Jack Black, Spalding Gray and Robin Williams and — my favorite — “Jackie Gleason meets Franz Kafka.”
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | September 26, 2006

Laughing allowed

Norm Crosby comes home to the Boston Comedy Festival
When Norm Crosby says he “buried” pioneering television comedian Milton Berle, he’s being literal.
By TED DROZDOWSKI | September 05, 2006

Where it was

Boston Movie Tours gets wheels
As a wee lad, Jeff Coveney went down to the sea on Martha’s Vineyard in search of where Steven Spielberg and crew shot bits of Jaws . “Where’s the beach?” he remembers shouting out.
By GERALD PEARY | August 02, 2006

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