‘Super 8’ Review: Spielberg and Abrams do the Monster Mash
I was raised on Steven Spielberg films as a child. I spent countless hours watching them, rewatching, and then trying to recreate them with our family video camera and whatever …
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I was raised on Steven Spielberg films as a child. I spent countless hours watching them, rewatching, and then trying to recreate them with our family video camera and whatever …
Read MoreThe longer Woody Allen goes on making films, the more and more he starts to look like a classic rock band that isn’t sure when to unplug and hang it …
Read MoreI hate cats. I really do. So when a film begins with awkward narration by a homeless, haggard feline, I’m prepared for something miserable. Fortunately, Miranda July’s The Future is not …
Read MoreSubmarine is the kind of film that walks a very thin line between being appropriately offbeat and overblown with quirky pretentiousness. Those who can identify with the film will …
Read MoreThis is the tenth in a weekly series with BU Now that highlights Seniors’ sage advice on absolute must-dos in Boston. Looking for the ultimate list of things to experience …
Read MorePart comedy, part detective story, “The Bengali Detective” is a creative, powerful, and wonderfully entertaining documentary
Read MoreThe Independent Film Festival of Boston, the most attended film festival in the New England area, gets underway this Wednesday, April 27 at the Somerville Theater in Davis Square. For …
Read More“Insidious” is initially effective and shows plenty of promise, but ultimately falls apart because of an overdone ending.
Read MoreZack Snyder’s Sucker Punch is a painful experience, a cheap and violent piece of work that is woefully miscalculated on almost every level. Nonetheless, I’m sure there will be people who defend Sucker Punch, saying that it should be enjoyed as a piece of mindless entertainment. They wouldn’t be wrong about the mindless part.
Read MoreThe Lincoln Lawyer is a film that doesn’t work the way that it should. Oddly enough, that’s a good thing. This is a film that is greater than the sum …
Read MoreThere was a time when the Farrelly Brothers were on making movies like Dumb & Dumber, Kingpin and There’s Something About Mary, films that actually made you laugh so hard it might’ve been unhealthy. Unfortunately, that was well over a decade ago. And so here they still are, armed with their new film Hall Pass, which has the unfortunate distinction of having a truly great premise but still ending up as the worst film I’ve seen thus far in this young year.
Read MoreCedar Rapids, Miguel Arteta’s comic chronicle of a wild weekend in Iowa, is a bit of a surprise on two fronts. The first surprise, that the movie is much smarter than it looks, is a welcome one; the second, that it’s not quite as funny as it could’ve been, is the kind of let down that stays with you a few days.
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