Steven Boone
Steven Boone is a native New Yorker whose film criticism and articles have been published in The Star-Ledger, The Village Voice, Time Out NY, RES and Show Business Weekly. He contributes to the blogs The House Next Door, Vinyl is Heavy and his neglected but beloved pet project, Big Media Vandalism. He is proudest of coining a term for post-1966 corporate Hollywood: Ho'wood.
August 29, 2008 – 3:18 pm
A short film set in a halfway house. Our hero, Steven Boone, traverses the odds to hear Obama’s historic acceptance speech for his party’s nomination.
August 22, 2008 – 12:28 pm
“Yo, Steve, you got any movies, my dude?”
One of the youngbloods, a relatively new arrival here at the halfway house, is standing by my bunk with a look of desperation. It’s Sunday afternoon and he’s too broke to do anything but languish in here with us old timers. I slide my pile of Brooklyn Public [...]
August 14, 2008 – 1:37 pm
I wish I had smuggled the Polaroid snapshot of Nolte from my former employer, a men’s homeless shelter. Nolte wasn’t his real name, but I’ll be damned if the scruffy, gin-blossomed, gravel-voiced Vietnam veteran wasn’t a ringer for Nick Nolte playing a Nam burnout. He wore mirror shades and ratty field jacket festooned with medals [...]
August 8, 2008 – 12:00 pm
Will Michael Mann direct, with Jamie Foxx as Jesse Jackson? Or will Robert Zemeckis shoot the whole thing green screen? Steven Boone imagines what the inevitable Obama biopic will look like.
August 1, 2008 – 12:31 pm
Steven Boone reports from China, where the third MUMMY movie is working diplomatic magic.
Steven Boone explains why WALL-E qualifies as “another brilliant and devastating visual statement on American life dulled and softened by an overbearing orchestral score that says, ‘It’s only a movie, y’all…’”
Kid and Hef, two old-timer felons, shame CSI with their collection of crime dramas (which includes a “bitchslapping” Perry Mason)
“Isn’t it inspiring for you as a young black man to see a black man standing up, flying around, fighting crime, saving people’s lives?”
“Nah, he was drunk and joint.”
Steven Boone talks to Hunter S. Thompson’s documentarian about, among other things, how the writer “got very depressed when Bush won in ‘04 and not long after that he committed suicide.”
A short story by Steven Boone––by a film critic, about film critics, meant exclusively for an audience of film critics.
