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Film Review: “Nowhere Special” — Searching for a Heart of Gold

May 4, 2024
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The relationship between the two leads keeps Nowhere Special grounded in what is the film’s moving core — a high-stakes love story between a father and a son.

Film Review: “The Old Oak” — Still Standing Tall

May 4, 2024
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Veteran British director Ken Loach turns over a new leaf in “The Old Oak”.

Film Review: “Challengers” — Match Point

May 4, 2024
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“Challengers” is an exploration of eroticism in the broadest sense: the eroticism of competition, the sensuality of sport, and the messiness of human relationships.

Film Reviews: DocTalk at the Independent Film Festival of Boston — Bands of Outsiders

May 1, 2024
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Documentaries celebrating communities shine at the Independent Film Festival of Boston.

Film Preview: Independent Film Festival Boston — Two By Two

April 30, 2024
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Want to see some excellent new films? How about in pairs?

Film Interview: At the IFFB — “Road to Ruane” Pays Tribute to Boston’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Benefactor Billy Ruane

April 30, 2024
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“Billy Ruane built a legacy, and 14 years after his death you can still feel his presence in local clubs. He fermented a scene that still lives on today.”

Book Review: “Double Indemnity and the Rise of Film Noir” — A Rehash

April 21, 2024
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The best part of the Silver/Ursini book is the padding, the last forty pages in which the two authors go past “Double Indemnity”‘s release to contextualize it within the generic stream of “film noir”.

Film Review: “Sasquatch Sunset” — Creatures of Nature, Walking Proud and Standing Tall

April 19, 2024
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“Sasquatch Sunset”‘s directors claim they were interested in respecting the universal connection between man and nature, albeit with plenty of humor.

Book Review: “Hollywood’s Imperial Wars” — Darkness Visible

April 16, 2024
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“Hollywood’s Imperial Wars” is at its best as a bold and informative survey of the movies that the studios felt it was “credibly possible” for them to make after Vietnam.

Film Review: “The People’s Joker” — Intellectual Clown Property

April 15, 2024
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Whatever else 2024 has in store for queer filmmakers and audiences, there’s likely to be nothing else that’ll put a smile on your face quite like “The People’s Joker.”

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