(4/21) THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991) DIR. JONATHON DEMME @SOMERVILLE THEATRE
“Hello, Clarice.” The most famous line that was NOT actually said in Jonathan Demme’s 1991 hit THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. How…
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(4/21) THE MUPPET MOVIE (1979) DIR. JAMES FRAWLEY @BRATTLE
My girlfriend is obsessed with the Muppets, an obsession which often ran very perpendicular to my intense childhood fear of the oversized…
(3/26) PSYCHO (1960) DIR. ALFRED HITCHCOCK @SOMERVILLE THEATRE
Be it in the secret activities of our neighbors or in a pack of pigeons staring down from atop a telephone line,…
(3/9 – 3/13) A FIELD IN ENGLAND (2014) DIR. BEN WHEATLEY @BRATTLE
While drug use in the 1960’s may have produced some interesting music, literature, and a penchant for paisley patterns, drug use centuries…
(2/9) PSYCHEDELIC CINEMA (1967-1969) DIR. KEN BROWN @ICA
While New York City and San Francisco are the touchstones of the 1960’s counter culture, it’s important to remember that other parts…
REVIEW: NIGHT ACROSS THE STREET (2012) DIR. RAOUL RUIZ @BRATTLE
“What’s the film about?” “It’s hard to explain.” “Why do you come to the cinema if you don’t even know anything about…
(12/13) MILLER’S CROSSING (1990) DIR. JOEL & ETHAN COEN @BRATTLE
A proto-BOARDWALK EMPIRE (hell, even Steve Buscemi is in it), Joel and Ethan Coen’s MILLER’S CROSSING offers up a slice of prohibition…
(11/21) TERMINATOR 2: JUDGEMENT DAY (1991) DIR. JAMES CAMERON @VU
Proving that robots cannot tell a lie, Arnold Schwarzenegger DID come back to reprise his role as the Terminator in James Cameron’s…
REVIEW: SOVIETS PLUS ELECTRICITY (2001) DIR. NICOLAS REY @HFA
While watching Nicolas Rey’s 2001 film, THE SOVIETS PLUS ELECTRICITY, I couldn’t help from wondering how on earth I was going to…
(10/26) CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON (2000) DIR. ANG LEE @HFA
With it’s stunning aerial combat and intense swordplay, it’s the film that launched possibly even more rip offs and spoofs than the…
REVIEW: DRUG WAR (2012) DIR. JOHNNIE TO
Here in the land of the free, we often complain about how lame the drug laws in America are, and for good…
