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Even before I bought my ticket, I was wondering to myself which niece would be receiving a copy of this for her birthday or Christmas, because, as you might imagine, that's my thing: Getting the girlies the movies that they might not get from anyone...

Is there a more intriguing category during the Academy Awards telecast than the animated short subjects? Depending on how over-produced the ceremony is, each nominee might get a few seconds of screen time at a weird angle as if projected onto a bill...

I feel a little bad about waiting the better part of a week after Tai Chi Hero arrived from Amazon to watch it - sure, there was giant monster stuff at the Brattle and trips north and I wanted to carve out time to re-watch the first as well, but, wel...

This week's distractions: More baseball (the Yankees being stomped by the Tigers was great fun) and trying to make my way through Charles Stross's Rule 34. I love the guy, but an entire book with multiple viewpoint characters in the second person w...

Pretty good turnout at Boston Common for this last night, well ahead of what I'm used to seeing for Chinese imports there! I've got to admit, I was a little worried - even though the IFFBoston folks have been pushing this and it's had a higher profi...

Shall we say, not my favorite night of the festival. There were worse, but this was a one-two punch of a thing I'd hoped to be good that turned out to be terrible and a thing I wasn't really jazzed for that was about what I expected, leaving me to w...