Review: The Essence of Boston’s Oldest Gay Bar is Captured in ‘Playland’
“Playland,” from director and screenwriter Georden West, premiered at the Wicked Queer Documentary Film Festival last month, intriguing an audience…
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5 Off the Beaten Path Thanksgiving Movies
5. ‘Shoplifters‘ (2018), dir. Hirokazu Koreeda This film starts off the list by bending the rules slightly. “Shoplifters” isn’t necessarily…
America’s Largest Documentary Festival – Nov. 8-26
Anselm Kiefer, Liv Ullmann, Little Richard, Jack and Sam Top DOC NYC How does one approach a film festival too…
New York Film Festival September 29–October 13
Film at Lincoln Center knows its audiences. Christian Petzold’s Afire (2023), a German drama of wildfires setting an entire forest…
‘American History X’: An Independent “Classic” Turns 25
In a recent career retrospective for GQ, Director Martin Scorsese said, “Every other person is like Travis Bickle now.” This…
John Carpenter’s ‘Halloween’ Celebrates Its 45th Anniversary
Redefining holidays is a classic practice in the horror genre. Bob Clark’s “Black Christmas” (1974) haunts the Christmas season, Steven…
‘Rumble’ Review: How Indigenous Sound Gets Made and Lives On
“Rumble” shines a spotlight on both Indigenous rock history and cultural preservation. Rezolution Pictures’s film uses the name of Link…
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…
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…