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So, I'm sitting down in the front row of the theater, writing something or other while getting ready to watch Diamonds Are Forever on Friday night, and ten or fifteen minutes before the movie, I hear "obsessed lunatic?", and Dave Kornfeld i...

Hey, rest of the country, why don't you have Patriot's Day like Maine and Massachusetts do? Sure, it's more of an elective holiday than one that everybody gets these days, but if you do take it, it's a day off when spring is just getting nice, an ex...

Let's have some Horrible Photography!That's Manborg's Steve Kostanski along with the directors of the shorts that preceded his movie, both of which were pretty good. They were all united by a sort of lo-fi throwback aesthetic, although expressed in...

Hey, that Horrible Photography isn't so bad:BUFF's Nicole McControversy and Excision director Richard Bates Jr.Nice guy, who seemed genuinely disappointed to tell someone asking a question that a character died. I must admit that I didn't like his m...

Aaaand let's slow it down from last week:The Red Sox have started playing! This cuts into my movie-watching a little, but theoretically increases writing time (it's great background). They're going to win eventually.I'm sure of it. (written at 8pm)...

Look at all these tickets:Yep, festival time, so the weekend was spent on ever-increasing numbers of movies and even a shorts program. Sunday was especially nuts, with five movies in three venues in as many different cities.It was also a weird day f...

The joke has been making the rounds more lately, but probably started roughly ten seconds after somebody read a description of Suzanne Collins's young adult novel: "What do they call The Hunger Games in France? Battle Royale with cheese."...

It was warm last week. Like, after working from home on Monday, I got a potato and some steak tips from the grocery store, fired up the grill, and had a delicious dinner. I watched (spring training) baseball on Thursday night, and it didn't feel ri...

Not a huge amount to say here other than that the weekend practically living at the Somerville Theatre was a genuine delight. I don't know if the folks who run that place get the credit they deserve for having the lowest prices of any theater on a s...

I'm going to try and keep this quick, in large part because most of what's on it is going to be getting its own review as well, and who really needs to write about things twice?In some ways, seeing this particular line-up this was was the result of p...

You get early admission to the marathon with the festival pass, and apparently that's what most people by them for - when some of the fest's later shows were sold out, Garen said that technically all of them were, because they sold many more passes t...

Have some Not-Quite-Horrible Photography:Let me tell you, Antony Neely is a dedicated Scot: I'm not running around New England in a kilt as a joke for even one day, but he was rocking something similar the next evening at the Marathon. Sure, it pro...

Shall we say, not my favorite night of the festival. There were worse, but this was a one-two punch of a thing I'd hoped to be good that turned out to be terrible and a thing I wasn't really jazzed for that was about what I expected, leaving me to w...

Let's get straight to the Terrible Photography:Time of the Robots director Erik Hammen and Garen Daly.Not a whole lot to say about this movie that I didn't say in my review, and let's face it, I'm kind of surprised at how much I had to say there, con...

Today's lesson: Crossing the street, ordering a burger at Boston Burger Company, having it cook, and eating it will not fill the entire two and a half hours between the end of one movie and the start of the next one you haven't seen, which is not a...