Brendan Kearns

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• Freedom Fighter

  Jan. 19, 2006 at midnight

  Reading a newspaper in January 2006, one feels a tragic sense of deja vu. Stories of violent insurgencies, military operations and ceaselessly rising body counts are reported with such regularity ...

• The Price of Freedom

  Jan. 12, 2006 at midnight

  Freedom is a subjective concept. Just ask the stars of “After Innocence.” The documentary film, which screens at the James Bridges Theater tonight courtesy of Melnitz Movies, tells the stories ...

• Woody Allen’s new style doesn’t ‘Match’ past

  Dec. 8, 2005 at midnight

  This is definitely not your parents’ Woody Allen film. With “Match Point,” the latest offering from the filmmaker, Allen has departed from many of the conventions of his earlier work. ...

• Comic-book heroes illustrate valuable life lessons

  Nov. 10, 2005 at midnight

  Imagine Miles Davis playing at Schoenberg, Ernest Hemingway reading his work at Royce, or Michelangelo presenting one of his masterpieces at the Sculpture Garden, and one gets the idea. A ...

• In superhero tights, self-esteem can shrink

  Nov. 3, 2005 at midnight

  Superheroes just don’t get enough respect. Recently, a group of friends assembled at my apartment to watch “Spider-Man 2.” The behavior of my buddies during the film appalled me: they ...

• Stars can shed eye-opening light

  Oct. 27, 2005 at midnight

  Celebrity activism has long been a part of American culture. From Jane Fonda’s appearance with the Viet Cong in 1971 to Kanye West’s televised rant on the president’s disaffection for ...

• Falling starlet needs to find a new job

  Oct. 20, 2005 at midnight

  Dear Tara Reid, I was so sorry to hear about the recent cancellation of your E! television program “Taradise.” While the show – in which you traveled the world pursuing ...

• Authors' lives far more riveting than ‘Dukes’

  Oct. 13, 2005 at midnight

  While watching the new film “Capote,” a stellar account of the struggles and successes experienced by writer Truman Capote during the composition of his seminal book “In Cold Blood,” I ...

• A sweeping change in women’s empowerment

  Oct. 6, 2005 at midnight

  At a recent family dinner, I was lamenting the challenge of writing a weekly entertainment column. “How about something on ‘Desperate Housewives’?” my mother suggested. “Maybe about how women love ...

• Complexity rules in film about family life

  Oct. 6, 2005 at midnight

  Sometimes brevity is impossible. Anyone seeking to summarize Noah Baumbach’s new film, “The Squid and the Whale,” quickly becomes acquainted with this fact. Above all, complexity prevails. The movie explores ...