Articles by James Keast

A Serious Man

Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

PUBLISHED Feb 18, 2010

By setting their latest effort both in the '60s and in an unnamed Midwestern Jewish community, the Coen brothers invite more "autobiographi...

Chuck: The Complete Second Season

PUBLISHED Jan 15, 2010

Spy life hasn't done well in the relatively small scale world of television, but Chuck succeeds ― creatively, if not necessarily rati...

The Hurt Locker

Kathryn Bigelow

PUBLISHED Jan 15, 2010

Taking a break at about the halfway mark of director Kathryn Bigelow's Iraq war drama, The Hurt Locker, I realized my jaw was sore. I had b...

Scott Cooper

Crazy Heart

PUBLISHED Jan 14, 2010

Crazy Heart, in which Jeff Bridges adds another career achievement notch on his belt as a down-to-his-last-drink country singer, might be m...

District 9

Neill Blomkamp

PUBLISHED Jan 7, 2010

District 9 is the coolest movie of the year, and one of the most interesting entries into the sci-fi realm in quite a while, a visceral, ex...

Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut [Blu-Ray]

ZacK Snyder

PUBLISHED Jan 7, 2010

This third iteration of Watchmen ― after a three-hour theatrical cut, with another half-hour added to an initial DVD director's cut ― is de...

Sherlock Holmes

Guy Ritchie

PUBLISHED Dec 24, 2009

Robert Downey Jr. lands himself another potential blockbuster franchise with Sherlock Holmes, in which he proves himself the perfect cerebr...

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James Cameron

PUBLISHED Dec 18, 2009

Director James Cameron once declared himself "king of the world"; now he's become a creator of worlds, in particularly, Pandora, the lush,...