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A very animated Saturday, as my "grew up in the 1980s and that's when you watched cartoons" brain says should be the case. Sure, Demigod is technically puppetry, but you get the idea. Just the one guest, My Grandfather's Demons director...

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...

So, let's start off with some unfinished business: By that, I obviously mean Arabian Nights: Volume 3, the Enchanted One, where I was thinking I might wind up by myself before a small handful of other people arrived. I'm kind of curious as to w...

Spent the early part of last week on a business trip, and, man, it was like the only part of Texas that doesn't have an Alamo Drafthouse. Then again, there's a whole lot of nothing in at least the part of Frisco, Texas where I was staying and mee...

I heard some pretty enthusiastic things about this series from various folks, and the premise - a combination of fantasy and realism used to examine Portugal during the recent economic crisis - sounded interesting enough to give it a shout at somepla...

Not shown: The episode of The Blacklist that aired Monday was the first half of a pretty darn good Joe Carnahan action movie. Shame someone else handled the back end. Stubless: Watching the Korean Oldboy on Blu-ray (Monday the 2nd) and the Hind...

Since the Regent isn't primarily a film venue - and even if it was, these screenings don't necessarily pack the house - December looks like it's wound up being full of conflicts. During the first week of the month, an event later in the week needed...

Not a busy week, but makes up for it by being pretty good. Stubless: We Are What We Are, Thursday 19 September 2013, 7:30pm, Regal Fenway #2 ... Although, I suppose you could say I did have a stub for that, in the form of the piece of paper taped...

We'll wrap this up quick because I've got a self-imposed deadline for a couple things tomorrow and, well, this isn't something I want to linger on. This day was spent in de Seve, watching the off-beat stuff that are de Seve-type movies, and all thre...

Blah blah lousy commute blah blah cold blah fairly busy weekend, actually:Stubless: Boston Sci-Fi Film Festival short programs ("Dangerous Visions", Friday 11 February, 7:30pm Somerville Theatre #2; "Retro Speculatives", Sunday 13...

I'd honestly really rather not harp on the age of this movie's writer/director, Manoel de Oliveira, but, man... One hundred and two. Granted, he was likely only a hundred - a hundred and one, max! - when this film was shot, but he's been working sin...