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Ah, the Tuesday of IFFBoston. The "showcase day", when the festival shows two movies that aren't deemed to be opening/closing night material but are worthy of being shown without alternative screenings. During the three previous years, a...

Actually, three nights at the Capitol this week, including The Avengers on Monday. As a venue, it's got its issues - five of the six screens have center aisle, which is a bit of a nuisance for those of us who like to sit in the center - but like the...

This is how it starts... I know I'm not going to get a This Week In Tickets post done during the festival, but I figure the next week isn't unreasonable, and then when that week passes I'm barely done writing up February, and before you know it it's...

I planned for this to be the crazy marathon day and maybe the fact that it wasn't that kind of gauntlet wound up being for the best - watching six films doesn't sound like a whole lot more "work" than four, but running from one theater to a...

Picked my press pass up on the way from work Monday, got out of work with plenty of time to spare on Wednesday, and saw (most of) the usual suspects doing their thing while waiting in line. Still, there just seemed to be something missing... THER...

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...

Sorry, folks, no Horrible Photography; as great as BUFF is, it didn't quite draw Bengali and Danish filmmakers out to do Q&As, and I have to imagine that everybody involved with Some Guy Who Kills People is onto their next project by now. As I m...

In short, this is an all-around really good movie that you should check out if you're in one of the cities where it's playing - Boston, New York, Washington D.C., San Francisco, L.A., Santa Monica, and Seattle in the U.S, with Houston being added nex...

Okay, I'm past having to watch absolutely every Red Sox game that comes on TV. 50%, 75% max will do.Not much more to go with here, as all three movies I saw last week (The Lady, Detention, and L!fe Happens) are covered in last night's post. If you'...

I'll keep this short because these movies really aren't long for Boston: The Lady will be hanging around with half a screen at Kendall Square next weekend, but Detention and L!fe Happens won't be hanging around past Thursday. A shame; although Dete...

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)...

For all the talk of how it's hard for anything but gigantic blockbusters to get onto American screens these days, consider this: Love in a Puff came out in Hong Kong just about exactly two years ago, played a few film festivals, and has not, as of y...

A day mostly spent at the Boston Underground Film Festival didn't figure to be a day when I saw good work from a bunch of young actors. But, go figure, I liked the kids in both of these movies, and the little girl in Some Guy Who Kills People, and t...

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...