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Welp, that's not the first time I've found myself going to a different film than I figured on to start the day, but this may be the first time I didn't realize it until introductions started. Those introductions were Mitch welcoming The Elderly di...

How big a star was Anita Mui Yim-Fong in Hong Kong? There are three statues at the end of the Avenue of Stars in Tsim Sha Tsui. One is cartoon piglet McDull, for the kids. One is Bruce Lee. The other is this: (Aside: Just looking through my p...

Even in the pre-Covid times, the Belmont World Film spring series could be an easy one to overlook - you've got to take the 73 bus to get to a theater that always feels like it might be about to shut down (except when a show is someplace else), it ov...

Obligatory eerily-empty multiplex picture: The fact that all those mini-marquees just say "AMC Theatres" rather than the film playing and its showtime doesn't mean that they're empty; the place at Boston Common has just been doing that f...

Looks like this is one week and out in the Coolidge's virtual room, so if you're reading this on 22/23 July 2020, watch it now, if you feel like it might be your thing. Like I say in the review, I don't know how much new material I actually learned...

Gone from Boston, I'm afraid, as this was a last-chance special, where I show up at Kendall Square on the last day, it's in theater 9, and just well-enough attended that I ponder the question of whether they should have kept it around another few day...

Ah, I missed The Man Standing Next in last week's update. Big open space there that wasn't like me. Well, not entirely unlike me, sometimes I have weeks where there's not a whole lot that excites me, I get held up at work, and then, for all that...

Difficult conditions at Fenway this week. On Tuesday, for instance, it was chilly and rainy and windy. I got there late enough to miss the start but early enough for a long rain delay. The game seemed to be going well enough, though, and then...

On the one hand, Elton John is one of the few musicians where I do, on occasion, do a quick search on Amazon to see if there's a new album coming out any time soon, and has been a favorite for a while; on the other, I tend to be so uninterested in mo...

Almost nine years ago, I attended a screening that likely won't be topped any time soon in terms of sheer coolness, seeing a silent comedy about the early days of jazz in the Apollo Theater with a live score performed by Wynton Marsalis and Cecile Li...

Ah, nuts, first lost ticket stub of the year. Short features are fantastic Take Monday, when I got to the Coolidge at 7pm for Detour, enjoy a nice 70-minute movie, leisurely bus ride to Harvard Square, with time to get a burrito before sitting d...

For a guy who often feels like a character actor or ensemble player, John C. Reilly played a title character in four different movies in 2018 (The Sisters Brothers, Ralph Breaks the Internet, Holmes & Watson, and Stan & Ollie). Eric Snider c...

It's a bit odd to be seeing movies while on vacation, especially ones that I could have caught at home - there's this feeling that with limited time in Vienna, I really should have better, only-in-Austria ways to spend my time than watching movies.