This Is Your Brain on Drugs: JOHN DIES AT THE END Film Review
4 / 5 stars If you like your horror-comedies with drug-induced delusion, disjointed humor (and disjointed body parts), and villains made of reconstituted frozen meat, then John Dies at the End is your...
View ArticleFree Preview Ticket Giveaway – Boston Only: DEAD MAN DOWN
David Fincher may have put his own English-language slant on The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, but the original Swedish film remains as, well, the original adaptation and a Netflix favorite. The...
View ArticleNew Movie Poster and Preview: Zack Parker’s PROXY
One of the great indie cinema finds in 2011 was Zack Parker’s timeline-skipping drama, Scalene, a cool little shocker that carefully dissects a storyline shared by three connected characters. The film...
View ArticleWhite Smoke Rising: WE HAVE A POPE Film Review
3.5 / 5 stars There’s a vacancy in the Papacy. In following centuries-old tradition, the Cardinals convene, the conclave begins, and more than a billion Catholics await word that one man has ascended...
View ArticleCulture Crash: The Quirky Queue’s THE INFIDEL Film Review
4 / 5 stars It has been theorized that the roots of the Arab-Jewish conflict lie in one of the earliest tales of the Torah. Before Abraham begot Issac, he impregnated Hagar who gave birth to Ishmael....
View ArticleThe Wonderful Tale of Captain Super Sperm: STARBUCK Film Review
4.5 / 5 stars Sweetness and sentimentality have lost their way in popular film, either booted miserably by another Nicholas Sparks adaptation, or often replaced by snide cynicism, the entertainment...
View ArticleFree Boston Preview Ticket Giveaway — G.I. JOE: RETALIATION
If there are two film actors you just don’t see that often, it’s Channing Tatum and Bruce Willis. We’re kidding! These guys appear in so many movies, they’ve decided to co-star in one, the second entry...
View ArticleA City on Fire: BURN Film Review
4.5 / 5 stars If you know anything about modern U.S. civics, you know there are few cities that have seen troubles like those in Detroit, Michigan. And after seeing Burn, an engrossing documentary that...
View ArticleThe Creepy, Eclectic Movie Posters of ROOM 237
Some documentaries celebrate film. Others spotlight the filmmakers themselves, or devoted film fans. But the documentary Room 237 goes far beyond sharing a passion or dedication for the movies — it’s a...
View ArticleTribeca Film Festival Preview: RAW HERRING
There’s a film entering next week’s Tribeca Film Festival World Documentary Competition that was just completed Thursday. As in, two days ago. This down-to-the-wire effort is about as unique an entry...
View Article2013 Independent Film Festival Boston: 12 Movies to Watch
The Boston area boasts a hell of a lot of culture. The Institute of Contemporary Art. The American Repertory Theater. The Marshmallow Fluff Festival. But each spring brings my favorite annual arts...
View ArticleSaturday Update: Independent Film Festival Boston 2013
If you’ve read my list of the 12 “movies to watch” at this year’s 11th Independent Film Festival Boston (IFFB), you may have already made your choices and are ready to hit the festival. But if you’re...
View ArticleSunday Update: Independent Film Festival Boston 2013
Day 4 of the 2013 IFFB featured a faithful Joss Whedon audience fawning over every frame of the director’s version of Much Ado About Nothing (with critics’ opinions’ wildly across the board),...
View ArticleStories from the (Un) Funny Farm: SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK Film Review
3.5 / 5 stars There’s no logical reason why Golden Globe voters categorized Silver Linings Playbook as a comedy during the 2012 awards season. Even at its most effective and appealing, David O....
View Article1980s Video Stardom: The Quirky Queue TAPEHEADS Film Review
5 / 5 stars I still recall the first night that MTV hit the airwaves. Although most footage at the time was merely from old concerts, it didn’t take long for the music video format to take the record...
View ArticleSpock Meet Spock: New Audi TV Spot With Nimoy and Quinto
Even the most casual fan of J.J. Abrams’ version of Star Trek knows that we get two — yes, two! — Mr. Spock appearances: One young Spock played by Zachary Quinto (already a geek convention favorite...
View ArticleNot So Novel: THE GREAT GATSBY Film Review
2 / 5 stars You don’t have to be an F. Scott Fitzgerald purist to dislike Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby. It’s easy for anyone to find wrongdoing with this new-look adaptation, even those who embrace...
View ArticleExtended Family: STORIES WE TELL Film Review
3.5 / 5 stars During the introduction of Sarah Polley’s documentary Stories We Tell, the writer-director’s sister, Joanna, poses the most relevant question: “Who f%*king cares about our family?!” A...
View ArticleThe MITL Mother-In-Law Film Review: THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES
Ed. Note: For years, my retired, moviegoing mother-in-law has been texting me capsule reviews of films she’s seen, usually right after she leaves her local theater with her also-retired friends....
View ArticleThree “Movies to Watch” from Cannes Film Festival 2013
Any worthy movie critic could spend days writing about the myriad of cinema offerings at the Cannes Film Festival. And many do. But with the 2013 edition of Festival de Cannes coming to a close, and...
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