Articles by James Keast

Mommie Dearest: Hollywood Royalty Edition

Frank Perry

PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2006

These days, Oscar-winning actresses damage their careers propping up uncertain fan-boy franchises for big paycheques (Catwoman, Aeon Flux)....

Art School Confidential

Terry Zwigoff

PUBLISHED May 1, 2006

There’s a moment early in Terry Zwigoff’s art school parody when a student outlines for our protagonist Jerome (Max Minghella) who the walk...

American Dreamz

Paul Weitz

PUBLISHED May 1, 2006

On the Saturday Night Live paved road to parodying American Idol and the Bush administration, there are at least some large, soft targets t...

Wonder Showzen: Season One

PUBLISHED May 1, 2006

The Wonder Showzen phenomenon hasn’t caught on north of the 49th, in part because we only just got MTV, the former music channel that airs...

Eraserhead

David Lynch

PUBLISHED May 1, 2006

When I’ve seen Eraserhead before — on badly damaged prints in rep cinemas or on poorly dubbed VHS — I found both its grainy, underdeveloped...

The Da Vinci Code

Ron Howard

PUBLISHED May 1, 2006

For all its purple prose and complete lack of fleshed out, interested characters, there’s a reason why Dan Brown’s novel The Da Vinci Code...

Feist / Various

Open Season

PUBLISHED May 1, 2006

The first notes on Leslie Feist’s remix and collaboration record Open Season are of soft, elegant piano, a cover of "One Evening” by cohort...

A History of Violence

David Cronenberg

PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2006

There is a thesis dissertation's worth of material contained in David Cronenberg's masterpiece A History of Violence. Hell, there's an enti...