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Boston Underground Film Fest 2016 – Day 1: ‘The Lure’

Opening night at Boston Underground Film Festival is always a jovial, if not transformative, experience at the movies. The first night that I attended there in 2014, I got to see Sion Sono’s Why Don’t You Play in Hell? Which resulted in all of my preconceptions about the festival’s programming being shattered. Seeing the new […]

Let’s get weird: Our 5 most anticipated films at Boston Underground Film Festival 2016

Some may regard Christmas as “the most wonderful time of the year,” but I save that kind of praise for the beautiful months of March and April. Why? Because in Boston, these months are filled with film farther than the eye can see. And first off, from March 23-27, we have the 18th incarnation of […]

MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Allegiant’ isn’t the last ‘Divergent’ movie and that’s unfortunate

Film: The Divergent Series – Allegiant Directed by: Robert Schwentke Starring: Shailene Woodley, Jeff Daniels, Theo James, Naomi Watts The Divergent series always seemed a bit of an enigma to me. These movies are churned out once a year, they don’t make that much money in comparison to other big budget fare, and they always […]

MOVIE REVIEW: Run, don’t walk, to see ’10 Cloverfield Lane’

Film: 10 Cloverfield Lane Directed by: Dan Trachtenberg Starring: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Goodman, John Gallagher Jr. It’s been 8 years since the original Cloverfield took theaters by storm. I fondly look back on opening night when my father and brother had no idea what they were about to watch, having seen none of the […]

MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Whiskey Tango Foxtrot’ is a bit too kind-hearted for its own good

Film: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Directed by: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa Starring: Tina Fey, Martin Freeman, Margot Robbie Whiskey Tango Foxtrot carves out a nice little space for itself next to other breezy, matinee, fish-out-of-water tales. Directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa let their mean side take a back seat in this earnest little film about […]

MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Gods Of Egypt’ mixes old with new, still sucks

Film: Gods Of Egypt Directed by: Alex Proyas Starring: Gerard Butler, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Brenton Thwaites There’s something really admirable about Hollywood’s eagerness to keep pumping out loud, big budget, mythological epics with the hope of striking gold. It sometimes provides auteurs with a chance to run rampant through centuries-old material while making it their own. […]

MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Triple 9’ is dirty, mean and really, really good

Film: Triple 9 Directed by: John Hillcoat Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Woody Harrelson, Kate Winslet “You gotta out-monster the monster,” Woody Harrelson’s joint-smoking detective, Jeffrey Allen, says before chugging another drink. Boilerplate truths like this one are littered throughout director John Hillcoat’s Triple 9, a cinematic piece of slam poetry dealing in dirges of nasty crime […]

MOVIE REVIEW: ‘The Witch’ flies above all the hype

Film: The Witch Starring: Anya Taylor-Joy, Kate Dickie, Ralph Ineson Directed by: Robert Eggers If there’s anything we’ve learned from horror cinema, it’s that witches have the immense power to take an already awful day and make it exponentially shittier. Considering that last statement, The Witch’s witches are so hellbent on screwing with a 1630s […]

MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Cabin Fever’ is more of a Winter cold

Film: Cabin Fever Starring: Gage Golightly, Matthew Daddario, Nadine Crocker Directed by: Travis Z Remaking a horror film is probably one of the trickiest things someone can do today. Rarely does the remake trump the original, especially because the original can have a vision that can’t be replicated or repurposed for the sake of another […]

MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Southbound’ Is A Decent Grab Bag Of Horror Cinema

Film: Southbound Directed by: Roxanne Benjamin, Radio Silence, David Bruckner, Patrick Horvath Starring: Mather Zickel, Chad Villella, Matt Bettinelli-Opin, Larry Fessenden The road to redemption is filled with potholes like demons, satanic cults, and masked villains. That much we’ve learned from the horror genre up until now, right? Southbound takes those familiar genre stamps for […]

MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Zoolander 2’ is for someone, apparently

Film: Zoolander 2 Directed by: Ben Stiller Starring: Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Will Ferrell, Kristen Wiig The original Zoolander still remains as a bit of an enigma, in my head. It was about a dumb man saving the world and the hijinks that would ensue because of that idiocy, maybe with a little bit of […]

MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Deadpool’ Thinks It’s Different, Is Totally Not

Film: Deadpool Directed by: Tim Miller Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, Ed Skrein, T.J. Miller It’s almost every time a comic book movie comes out that you hear “it’s like all of the other ones!” People, not just critics, decry the lack of voice and personality behind your favorite intellectual properties gracing the screen. That’s […]