Comedy - Buzz Talk & News

Aaaand, done, sixteen days after the festival. It probably could have been a couple days earlier, but Talk Cinema's last program screening before summer break was one that had played during IFFBoston (good thing I made other choices on Sunday!), and...

I wasn't originally going to be the guy to review Peeples for eFilmCritic, but then, I wasn't originally going to see it opening weekend; I was figuring to get out to Revere, see No One Lives, and head back to Boston, maybe check something at the bou...

It seems like it's been a while since I've been to either Fresh Pond or the Showcase Cinemas in Revere. That's because Fresh Pond has historically not been very good and Revere is far away, and, well, I don't know how much that's changed since then.

Only nine days behi... Oh, wait, the clock just struck midnight. Ten days behind! Saturday was kind of a wacky day - I got my usual slow start, for a festival weekend day, and would spend some time bouncing back and forth between venues as the day...

So, between BUFF at the start of this four-week period and the chaos at the end, and being busy seeing movies and baseball in between, this has slipped. Sorry. At least there's nothing coming up to keep it from happening again... Oh, right, IFFBost...

I'm sure that the Orson Welles Theater in Cambridge wasn't the only independent theater that had B-movie marathons under the name of "Schlock Around the Clock", but there are apparently still some fond memories of that even though the place...

Ah, at last, the end, two weeks later! Weird day, beyond what you might expect for an Underground Film Festival. I could have started earlier - remember how last year I said maybe I'd actually stay awake through Mondomanila if I saw it under diffe...

Time flies - not even done writing about BUFF, and I'm already starting to obsess about my IFFBoston schedule. Saturday, at least, was a pretty good day, even though it did start out on a high note and have trouble equalling that as it went on. The...

So, when we last left BUFF, I had worked from home so that I could see the first film on the program and not particularly enjoyed it. You can only do that so many times during the work week, though, so the second day I opted to skip the shorts progr...

A quick detour from BUFF reviews, since it leaves the Boston area after Thursday, which is a bummer; it's a fun little movie that I wish I could have let people in on sooner. Theoretically, I could have let people in on it a lot sooner, as it was pl...

There's a part of me that wonders if it's right and proper for BUFF to be the relatively well-oiled machine that it is - shouldn't it be like it was the first years I went, screening things in random rooms of college campuses and community centers as...

Looking at how late this one is running, and how many movies I'll be seeing at BUFF before Sunday's done, I think it's pretty safe to say that TWIT will be doing a festival skip week next week. But, as you can see, this one's late-ish because of a b...

We really need some folks writing at EFC who have kids to watch these movies with. Don't get me wrong, I like them and like reviewing them, but as a single childless almost-forty-year-old, I've got no idea how it plays to kids in the audience. I li...

This is one of those series that makes me think that I really should have a membership at the Harvard Film Archive. They have them every once in a while, and it's always a very pleasant surprise - you pick up the schedule, knowing that what's coming...

Chlotrudis Awards stuff dominating my movie-watching time, for good and ill. Stubless: The three movies I saw to vote on Chlotrudis's Buried Treasure Award (Beauty Is Embarrassing on Monday, Alps on Tuesday, Sound of Noise on Thursday, all in my l...