Articles by James Keast

Tortoise

A Lazarus Taxon

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2006

In the body of experimental music in the late ’90s, Tortoise were the beating heart, taking in and pumping out the disparate sounds of an e...

Lady In the Water

M. Night Shyamalan

PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2006

With his latest exploration of mystery, spookiness and the realm of the unknown, Night Shyamalan wants to make an allegory about the magic...

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COMIC

PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2006

Music is magic — most any obsessive culture vulture wouldn’t question that supposition. But according to Britpop-weaned comics obsessives K...

Weeds: Season One

PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2006

It’s a concept made for cable TV — suburban mom turns to selling ganja in order to maintain her swishy lifestyle. It’s got a cast of approp...

Broken Saints

PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2006

The "animated comic epic” Broken Saints has seen several lives already; first available as web-only comic short films, it takes a pit stop...

30 Days

PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2006

In Super Size Me, Morgan Spurlock used his affable on-camera charm and interest in social justice issues to illuminate the disasters of a f...

Syriana

Stephen Gaghan

PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2006

In a year rife with hot button political issues, writer/director Stephen Gaghan’s exploration of the interconnected financial, political an...

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang

Shane Black

PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2006

For all the blather that people spout about not wanting the same old same old from our filmed entertainment, when a quality, quirky offerin...