Articles by James Keast

Emmylou Harris

The Exclaim! Questionnaire

PUBLISHED May 24, 2008

What are you up to? We just finished this record, so I just got back from a week of press in New York and London. I’m going back to New Yor...

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Steven Spielberg

PUBLISHED May 23, 2008

Catching up with old friends, you want to know what they’ve been up to, not marvel at how much they’ve changed. And so it’s with warm famil...

Iron Man

Jon Favreau

PUBLISHED May 1, 2008

From the stable of Marvel characters created by Stan "gee whiz true believers” Lee in the mid-to late ’60s, most are fantasy figures, from...

Standard Operating Procedure

Errol Morris

PUBLISHED May 1, 2008

On its surface, documentarian Errol Morris’s new film Standard Operating Procedure concerns the abuses by the American military at Abu Ghra...

Frisky Dingo Season 1

PUBLISHED Apr 24, 2008

Frisky Dingo addresses the challenges of daily life for a hoof-footed, sociopathic terrorist out to destroy the world but who can’t manage...

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

Terry Gilliam

PUBLISHED Apr 24, 2008

Cleopatra, Titanic, Apocalypse Now, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen — troubled film productions all but Liz Taylor and Richard Burton, a...

Friday Night Lights Season 2

PUBLISHED Apr 24, 2008

More football, less parents, more high school, less drama, more drama but less serialised - heads must have been spinning when the creators...

Leatherheads

George Clooney

PUBLISHED Apr 4, 2008

George Clooney deploys his charming smile to make blockbuster movies (the Oceans films), to get small movies made (Good Night and Good Luck...