Twit 2018 - Buzz Talk & News

New year, new calendar! Take a look: It looks a little different because not only do I have to shrink it down more, but I accidentally bought one that's actually too large for a two-page spread to fit on my scanner, so I'm kind of cut-and-pastin...

Christmas smack in the middle of this period, so really no time to do a TWIT for the first week on its own. Another day off on Monday the 17th, and I pre-purchased tickets for They Shall Not Grow Old in 3D that afternoon so that I could make i...

A three-day workweek here, but you'd never tell. This is why I take full weeks and run off to some other continent; knowing you won't be back to a city for years if ever is good motivation for not just being a bump on a log. Seriously, what the...

I had use-it-or-lose it vacation time, so I took Friday off, but you'd never be able to tell. The Brattle and Harvard archaeology departments don't necessarily show Raiders of the Lost Ark absolutely every fall, but it can seem like they do, and...

The theme for this week: Use the chance to see something in theaters wisely. What that means is that when The Great Buddha+ shows up on the Harvard Film Archive's schedule after you've been seeing the distributor tweet it up for a year (though s...

Someone dropping a whole bunch of TV that comes from one of my favorite filmmakers explains why not a whole lot of scotch tape was necessary this week: AMC rolled out an old-school miniseries this week - three movie-length presentations on consec...

Some good stuff this week, but the one that made my phone blow up was the one I reviewed at Fantasia. Aidan Turner has some fans who will retweet the heck out of people who tweet that review you wrote. I started the week off with Intimate Strange...

Hey, I made some progress on recent Blu-ray orders, in part because scheduling got weird with other stuff. First up: I suppose there were more pressing gaps than The Great Buster: A Celebration on Tuesday, especially since I know it's going to b...

All that blue takes a while to write up, but it was a pretty fair Fall focus weekend. First up, All About Nina, which I'd anticipated based upon the cast of Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Common, but wound up not really liking much, getting me more...

There was baseball and a birthday party this week, so this happened: There was a night or two when I might have been able to sneak something in there, but it was too rainy to hang around, waiting for the movie to start. So, yeah, nothing until S...

Averaging a movie a day even with playoff baseball going on, the sort of schedule that kind of makes my scrapbook grateful they didn't send my a physical ticket. It was a good week to catch up with some of the stuff that has been getting good rev...

They're doing a lot of renovations downstairs at the Somerville, and let me tell you: If they replaced the Museum of Bad Art with a kitchen so that I didn't have popcorn for dinner on weeks like this, I would happily accept the tradeoff. But, in...

The good folks at the Somerville Theatre have broken out the big film,and I am there for it. Quiet toward the start of the week, though, with just Pick of the Litter, which is cute enough, what with all the puppies being trained as guide dogs, bu...

Man, this weekend did not go as planned. The good news - Tuesday's baseball game was a lot of fun, a nice night, the score tight until it wasn't, the first game with Sale back from injury, enough 9/11 commemoration to be respectful but far from g...

Kind of a boring week at the cinemas, but one where I finally caught up with some of the stuff I'd been meaning to see for a while. I mentioned being a slug all last weekend, at it lasted through Labor Day, when I finallly caught a new release an...