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Enjoy my week of seeing movies and losing things! Like, start with the stub to Little Joe. Just not in my pocket when I got home, and I don't know that I was pulling things in and out of that pocket enough on the way home that it could have slip...

For some reason on Saturday, I started looking to see if The Crossing was available somewhere, even though I was pretty sure that it hadn't mysteriously gotten a new Region A release since the last time I checked, but maybe some streaming service had...

10am for the first show. Ten. Ay. Em! Doesn't seem like much, but some in the audience might have been at the midnight "Fantasia Retro" show the night before, and I'm guessing that the people looking to watch these older movies like Full...

Unless I have a weird impulse to get to the ballpark one last time, this is my last trip to Fenway of the year, and at least it's memorable. Tough to end on a more memorable game than this one, though - picked up a bobblehead, saw the grandson of...

Let us observe a brief moment of silence for MoviePass, which sputtered and hung on for far longer than was expected (or dignified). Even with the last year or so when I could almost never find a way to use it despite the regular $10/month charge ta...

I think Fagara is one of the bigger local releases in Hong Kong this year; it was getting prominent placement on the Hong Kong film times app that is still hanging around on my phone when I checked it for other reasons a month ago, and maybe more. I...

The next time someone talks about superhero movie fatigue, remind them that the Brattle was able to program a whole series of films noirs celebrating their 75th anniversary this summer, and I don't know how many people were talking about "murder...

The Nightingale isn't quite the platonic ideal of the movie I skip at IFFBoston despite trying to find reasons not to, but it's close: Already has distribution lined up, the cast and crew aren't traveling from Australia to Boston from for a Q&A,...

I joke about needing to ease out of Fantasia slowly rather than just doing four movies on Thursday and stopping every year, but I suspect I probably could. Someone just always happens to open something at the Cineplex Forum on that Friday that doesn...

Not a whole lot of guests in the movies I went to on Sunday, but as the halfway mark, it's another good chance to do some counting: 35 features, 26 shorts, 9 attached and 17 as part of two programs. That actually gets my feature pace down a bit, to...

I left after doing some work this morning to have my company laptop say it had 27 updates to install when I shut it down. I hope that wasn't a complete mess with how my laptop will sometimes just decide not to see the internet via wifi every once in...

This long day at the movies was brought to you by hunger and caffeine. The hunger comes from not having breakfast stuff in the hotel room and writing until something like five minutes before the first movie of the day started (perks of staying in a...

Nothing better than living in Noir City for the weekend. Well, sort of. An actual noir city would be a dangerous place where you can't trust anyone and life is cheap, but the Brattle when they're showing noirs all weekend is pretty nice. The we...

I understand why AMC booked this out of the two Asian gangster movies Well Go had opening this week - they're next to Chinatown, not a Korean neighborhood, and Ma Dong-seok has not quite broken through here yet. Still, that one seems to have people...

February was a month of long days at the movies when I wasn't feeling lousy, whether they be actual marathons or just multiple movie days. The week started on Chinese New Year with The Wandering Earth, whose opening that day was kind of a s...