Peter Keough

Book Review: “My Stupid Intentions” — The Heartbreaking Bildungsroman of a Beech Marten

June 13, 2023
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The fox knows many things in My Stupid Intentions. The beech marten just one.

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Doc Talk: 2023’s Human Rights Watch Film Festival — Inviting Outrage and Action

June 8, 2023
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Reasons to be outraged and hopeful at this year’s Human Rights Watch Film Festival.

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Film Reviews: “Past Lives” and “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” — Jorge Luis Borges Was There First

June 4, 2023
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Multiplication and division in two disparate films (and one short story)

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Film Review: “The Eight Mountains” — Four Decades of Male Bonding

May 28, 2023
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The Eight Mountains offers peak entertainment.

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Doc Talk: Five International Cinematic Treks

May 19, 2023
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The world is yours at the Global Cinema Film Festival of Boston

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Film Reviews: “Huesera: The Bone Woman” and “The Starling Girl” — Unorthodox Appeals

May 17, 2023
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Both debut features by young women directors open with prayers.

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DocTalk: Five Documentaries Probe the Past at The National Center for Jewish Film’s Annual Festival

May 7, 2023
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Four features and one short that explore aspects of Jewish history from its impact on the earliest origins of the United States to the ongoing struggles of the state of Israel.

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Film Review: Cristian Mungiu’s R.M.N. — Baiting the Beast Within

May 5, 2023
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The Romanian director has crafted a grueling fable about hate, lies, and misinformation in a small Transylvanian town.

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Doc Talk: Celebrating Nonfiction Film at the IFFBoston — Seeing Afresh

April 26, 2023
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This is what cinema is all about and these will probably be some of the best movies you will see all year.

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Book Review: Advertisements for Democracy — Norman Mailer’s Anti-Fascist Eloquence

April 9, 2023
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Guns, anti-Semitism, paranoid conspiracy theories — it never gets old.

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