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Tribeca Festival June 7-18
The surest sign that big screen movies are alive and well in New York City came from festival co-founders Jane…

Boston Underground Film Festival 2023 Recap and Review
I lined up at the little ticket booth outside the Brattle Theatre near Harvard, unsure of what to expect. My…

The 48 Hour Film Project in Boston begins Friday
The 48 Hour Film Project (48HFP) announced that it will kick off in Boston this Friday at 7:00 p.m. In…

There’s a Lee’s Garden for All of Us
“If Catholics are having a crisis of conscience, they go to the church, if Jews are having a crisis of…

Bright Sun Films’ “Closed for Storm” Explores the Legacy of Six Flags New Orleans
“Closed for Storm” succeeds at revealing the history of Six Flags New Orleans and honoring it as a symbol of…

Wicked Queer Film Fest Offers a Virtual Encore
The 39th annual Wicked Queer film festival kicked off Friday, March 31, and ran until Sunday, April 9th. The festival…
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In Conversation: Megan Kapler and Harry Cullen
In advance of the Bright Lights Cinema Series screening of Laura Poitras’ 2022 documentary “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,”…

The Life, the Light, and the Shadows: The Stroll
The world premiere of “The Stroll,” a documentary from directors Kristen Lovell and Zackary Drucker (“Transparent,” “The Lady and the…

Reconsidering Andrea Dworkin’s Legacy in “My Name is Andrea”
It is early in director Pratibha Parmar’s “My Name is Andrea” when its subject comes alive in brilliant, flaming righteousness….