Mexico - Buzz Talk & News

Go figure, the two-plus-hour group of short features took some effort to get through. Good news/bad news is that the last few days only have a few "scheduled" items that have screeners, so maybe I'll be able to catch up a bit. I struggled...

You know what the best part of being behind on your blogging is? Trying to write up 14 short films with an average length of 7-ish minutes a month and a half later. You can either zip through it or make yourself absolutely crazy! Obviously, I we...

Huh, were there actually no guests for Industrial Accident? You'd think there would be, but if there were, I didn't get any pictures. So here's Chris Hallock talking to The Girl on the Third Floor director Travis Stevens: He's had a hand in othe...

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...

I very nearly wound up skipping the last day of the Fall Focus entirely - the closing night film sold out before I could buy my tickets, but that was okay because it's not like I really wanted to deprive anyone who wanted to see the new Yorgos Lanthi...

I joke a bit in the opening about how one of the things that got brought up in the pitches for Museo during other recent movies at the Brattle mentioned how, in real life, the stolen artifacts wound up sitting in the thieves' closets for a few years,...

BUFF can fill a weekend up, and staying up for the midnight secret screening, so I was just not making it to the noon presentation of "Something Wicked This Way Comes", which in the couple years since Wicked Bird Media showed a promo reel a...

If you're in Boston and you run out to the theater now, you just might be able to catch these two before they leave (I gather Keanu has a few more days of very early shows, but it's effectively done). Didn't get to see them until Monday, and I haven...

Hey, TWIT template, desk calendar, tickets, scanner, and scotch tape: I've missed you. Yes, I'm skipping a couple weeks to start this bit of catch-up; it's a funny frustrating story I'll get to when I can (hopefully) post the middle weeks of Febr...

Folks, I am close enough to the end to taste it. Literally, as there are two bottles of Crush Creme Soda (which, near as I can tell, you can't get in the United States) that I save for the complete and final end of the festival chilling in my fridge...

I did not expect the day to go quite so long, but waking up early (7am is early on vacation, even if you're dialing in to work at nine), having most of the movie really stacked one on top of the other, and seeing a media/VIP line for the midnight Tur...

This weekend's solution to the Mad Lib of "Hollywood doesn't make romantic comedies any more but ________ does" is, apparently, "Mexico". Like the last couple of Mexican movies to pop up at Boston Common, A la Mala is distribut...

It's a rare year that the shorts categories at the Oscars, especially the documentaries, are less than very strong: There are a lot of filmmakers working at forty minutes or less, and while it's far from easy, the sheer volume means that taking five...