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Tom Tangney

  • SIFF: A marathon festival merits marathon coverage
    May 21, 2009 6:52 am
    The 25-day Seattle International Film Festival is a marathon, and like any marathon, we festival-goers who do it seriously get the cinematic equivalent of a…
  • “Angels and Demons” – beat the clock, Vatican style
    May 15, 2009 8:47 am
    When the first NATIONAL TREASURE movie came out, a lot of people thought it had been rushed into production to cash in on the Da…
  • Star Trek: Space Fluff
    May 8, 2009 8:38 am
    This new STAR TREK movie is a goof, a lark. It’s cinematic cotton candy that dissipates as soon as it strikes your eyeballs. For cotton…
  • Sunshine of the spotless Wolverine
    May 4, 2009 6:25 am
    It turns out “memory” is the key to X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE and that’s a double-edged sword for the fourth installment of a franchise. By this…
  • Sunday in the Park with George – A Dazzling Bust
    April 27, 2009 8:02 am
    Ever since I caught a glimpse of the latest revival of Stephen Sondheim’s great musical SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE on the Tony Awards…
  • State of Play: Newspaper Nostalgia
    April 17, 2009 8:16 am
    STATE OF PLAY is ostensibly an action thriller about the unholy alliance between business, politics, and journalism. But what ends up being the most compelling…
  • Crying in baseball (Movies)
    April 14, 2009 7:58 am
    Baseball is a curious thing – it’s the most statistics-oriented sport I know and at the same time it’s the sport that generates the most…
  • Observe and Report: Punch-Drunk Dumb
    April 10, 2009 7:56 am
    OBSERVE AND REPORT goes so far off the rails, one is almost tempted to do a critical salvage operation on it, to try to save…
  • ADVENTURELAND: Post-Apatow?
    April 3, 2009 6:34 am
    Sometimes it feels like Judd Apatow has taken over the world, or the world of comedy at least. His reign of comic terror started a…
  • Immodesty becomes me
    March 30, 2009 7:24 am
    “Tom Tangney isn’t just a reviewer, he’s a critic with a point of view. He has his own angle on the key to each movie,…

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