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Film Review: “Infinity Pool” — Consumers Consuming Themselves

In Infinity Pool, people who are dead inside essentially play with their own corpses as shiny, new toys. The savagery of that idea is, simply, delicious.

By: Michael Marano Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Brandon Cronenberg, Infinity Pool

Sundance Film Festival 2023 Dispatch #1 — Girls Just Wanna

The three films I selected to start my 2023 Sundance journey were very different from one another, but they shared one common theme: girlhood.

By: Peg Aloi Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Charlotte Regan, Daina Reid, Laurel Parmet, Peg Aloi, Run Rabbit Run, Scrapper, Sundance 2023, The Starling Girl

The Boston Festival of Films from Iran returns to the MFA — Beneath The Veil

These films provide a glimpse into the workings of a culture and society increasingly cut off from the rest of the world as well as a taste of a cinema that had once been among the world’s greatest and which may one day be again.

By: Peter Keough Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Ali Abbasi, Holy Spider, Iran Cinema, Mahmoud Ghaffari, MFA Boston, Saeed Gholipour, The Apple Day, THE BOSTON FESTIVAL OF FILMS FROM IRAN, The Runner, This Is Not Me, Zar Amir Ebrahim

Film Review: “Alice, Darling” — Toxic Romance

Alice, Darling is a potent reminder to women that they should trust their instincts — and rely on their friends.

By: Peg Aloi Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Alice Darling, Anna Kendrick, Charlie Carrick, Kaniehtiio Horn, Mark Winnick., Mary Nighy, Peg Aloi, Wunmi Mosaku

Doc Talk: Making Reparations, Restoring a Reputation, Redrawing Identities

Reviews of the cogent and well-crafted The Big Payback, the comprehensive if conventional Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space, and No Straight Lines: The Rise of Queer Comics, which expertly balances whimsy and gravity, though the version of the film shown by PBS has been heavily censored.

By: Peter Keough Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Alison Bechdel, Come Out Comix, Erika Alexander, Howard Cruse, Mary Wings, No Straight Lines, Peter Keough, Rupert Kinnard, The Big Payback, Whitney Dow, Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space

Book Review: “Run Towards the Danger” — Grappling With Memories of Trauma

Sarah Polley’s essay on sexual assault by itself is worth the price of the book, essential reading for anyone interested in the physical and psychological after-effects of violence against women.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Books, Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Jian Ghomeshi, Run Towards the Danger, Sarah Polley, Women Talking

Film Review: “M3GAN” — Child’s Slay

M3GAN is a movie algorithmically generated to spawn as many memes about itself as possible before undiscerning viewers realize what they’re watching is a reworked Black Mirror draft.

By: Nicole Veneto Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: M3GAN, Nicole Veneto

Film Review: “Saint Omer” — Medea Redux?

Director Alice Diop wisely avoids offering a neat solution to Saint Omer‘s exploration of a mother who murders her child.

By: Steve Erickson Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Alice Diop, Guslagie Malanda, Kayije Kagame, Saint Omar

Film Review: “The Pale Blue Eye” — A Gothic, and Poetic, Murder Mystery

For viewers weary of horror that embraces the minimalist and dystopian, The Pale Blue Eye — chock-full of emotion, mystery, and romance from a bygone era — is a welcome sight indeed.

By: Peg Aloi Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Peg Aloi, Scott Cooper, The Pale Blue Eye

Film Commentary: The Gratuitous Comic Cruelty of “The Banshees of Inishiren”

The island scenery is stunning and the acting is fine, but at is core Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inishiren is bitter and mean-spirited

By: Ed Meek Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Film Tagged: Brendan Gleeson, Colin Farrell, Ed Meek, Martin McDonough, The Banshees of Inishiren

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