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I've been pretty fortunate that, as BUFF has expanded enough to have a few weekend matinees at the Harvard Film Archive over the last couple of years, it hasn't presented me with a lot of really difficult choices. I'm generally cool with skipping th...

Funny thing, timing - I decided to bump Operation Avalanche in the Fantasia review queue because it was coming out in some areas on Friday, and my first thought was to talk about The Blair Witch Project and how, even knowing that it was not actually...

Went out of order on this one, because The Phoenix Incident had a Fathom Events screening on Thursday, so I figured it would make sense to have the review out by then, as that would almost certainly be its biggest release, even if it has a regular re...

So, this was weird - the highly polished movie chock full of recognizable actors is the one being presented as "independent" while the one completely populated by unknowns that I missed seeing at a genre festival last year is the mainstream...

Why is it taking me so long to post this? Well, it's a lot of movies, I've been spending a lot of time seeing movies which obviously cuts down into time to write about them, snow has been keeping me working at home and I do a lot of my writing on th...

Look, folks, if you're going to see one horror movie this weekend, go to the Brattle and see The Babadook; it is better in nearly every way but the presence of ancient Egyptian monsters. But I like this sort of movie a lot more than slashers that do...

Chosen last night so that I'd have something to watch before The 'Burbs and because EFC doesn't have a review, this one turned out surprisingly well. It is always an enjoyable surprise when a cast of mostly unknowns actually includes someone you act...

Kind of running 24 hours behind "schedule" here - this year's week of working mornings is not quite so friendly toward "write on one computer while a query chugs on another" as one might hope - so this is going to be quick. Kind...

I could have seen this during IFFBoston, but figured that it would come back to Boston, probably in the same place (the Brattle Theatre) that it played during the festival. And it did! I was a little late getting to it, though - combination of it o...

You'll notice that there no "day 07" post, though I wasn't planning on punting a day of the festival. After all, I try to squeeze as many screenings out of a festival pass as I can for more or less the same reason that I'm probably a bit h...

Sorry for the lateness. A combination of falling asleep, well, before I'd even left my last movie, but certainly as soon as I got back to the apartment; a relatively early start on Sunday, and my laptop's network connection starting to become extrem...

15 days behind, for those keeping track. It took me a bit of time to get to the theater on Monday, for reasons I don't quite remember. The festival folks announced fairly early on that Willow Creek would be moving to the Somerville Theatre's main a...

The best way to describe the Sunday I spent in Somerville Theatre's screen 2 - or at least, the kindest - is to say that the future is unpredictable. With the previous two days of programming wiped out by the most serious pure snowstorm to hit the N...