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Tom Tangney

  • Fame defamed
    September 25, 2009 6:42 am
    It seems the timing for this couldn’t be more ideal. We’re currently awash in overexuberant praise for the likes of Patrick Swayze and John Hughes,…
  • Dabis’ Amreeka: A Palestinian family’s journey to America
    September 23, 2009 5:09 pm
    A Cannes Film Festival prizewinner, AMREEKA tells the semi-autobiographical tale of a Palestinian family that leaves the Middle East and settles in a rural town…
  • “The Informant!” – American Idiot
    September 18, 2009 6:30 am
    That exclamation point says it all. This movie is not really about the most important corporate whistle-blower in the history of FBI investigations. It’s about…
  • TBTL – Why it mattered
    September 11, 2009 6:13 am
    The KIRO radio show TOO BEAUTIFUL TO LIVE has attained its own apotheosis . The show whose very title dared to foretell its demise has…
  • Extract – too long on the shelf
    September 4, 2009 6:28 am
    Mike Judge has impeccable comedy credentials. Anyone with BEAVIS AND BUTTHEAD, KING OF THE HILL, and OFFICE SPACE on his resume has earned his place…
  • It Might Get Loud: Ron & Tom talk guitars
    September 2, 2009 1:30 pm
    The rock guitar documentary IT MIGHT GET LOUD accomplished what a good doc film can do. It got me interested in a subject I didn’t…
  • Lorna’s Silence – What price, humanity?
    August 28, 2009 6:03 am
    Befitting its title, LORNA'S SILENCE starts out quietly and ends even more so . But over the course of its 103 minutes, it builds up…
  • Tarantino’s war movie – Misspelling his way to Gloury
    August 21, 2009 6:09 am
    INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS is Quentin Tarantino’s World War Two movie, which means it has more to do with World War Two movies than with World War…
  • Interview with Paul Giamatti
    August 20, 2009 3:28 pm
    Paul Giamatti is the unlikeliest of movie stars. But he’s also proof that talent will out, if given half a chance. That his acting career…
  • DISTRICT 9: Resident Aliens
    August 14, 2009 6:12 am
    In a dispiriting summer dominated by the likes of X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE, TERMINATOR SALVATION, TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN, and G.I. JOE: THE RISE OF…

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