WENT THERE: Director Debra Granik @ Brattle Theatre 5/31/2019
Debra Granik’s debut feature film, Down to the Bone is a story of addiction, poverty, and sheer force of will. Starring Vera Farmiga (most…
Articles by
Kyle Amato
Leave No Trace (2018) dir. Debra Granik
See one of the best films of 2018 at the Brattle Theater this Sunday, June 2nd at 7:00 pm. I reviewed Leave No…
REVIEW: Detective Pikachu (2019) dir. Rob Letterman
This review is probably going to come across as inherently biased. As someone who as never stopped playing the Pokémon video games…
REVIEW: Shazam! (2019) Dir. David F. Sandberg
The DCEU (DC Comics Extended Universe… not a great acronym) has had some very obvious growing pains. When you start off with…
BUFF INTERVIEW: Clickbait Directors Michael J. Epstein and Sophia Cacciola
After Saturday’s screening of Mary Jane’s Not a Virgin Anymore, I sat down with the directors of Clickbait, Michael J. Epstein and Sophia…
BUFF REVIEW: A Lot Like Life (Animated Shorts)
The animated shorts of the Boston Underground Film Festival are always a highlight. Each one brings something unique to the Brattle: some…
BUFF REVIEW: Mary Jane’s Not A Virgin Anymore (1998) dir. Sarah Jacobson – 2K...
Before last week, I had never heard of Sarah Jacobson’s sole feature film, Mary Jane’s Not a Virgin Anymore. Now I’m just angry…
REVIEW: How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019) dir. Dean DeBlois
It feels like a small miracle that Dreamworks Animation, purveyors of such ‘classics’ as Shrek the Third and the Penguins of Madagascar, has produced one of…
BOSTON SCIFI INTERVIEW: ‘LAKE ARTIFACT’ DIRECTOR BRUCE WEMPLE & ACTORS CHRIS CIMPERMAN, CATHARINE DADDARIO,...
Last Saturday, I was lucky enough to interview director Bruce Wemple and the cast of Boston Sci-Fi Festival premiere film Lake Artifact. We…
Kyle Amato’s Year-End Wrap Up
Kyle Amato is a regular contributor to Film Flam, as well as the co-host of the internet’s premiere Ethan Hawke-themed podcast, Hawke…
REVIEW: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse (2018) dir. Bobb Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, & Rodney Rothman
You can be forgiven for rolling your eyes at yet another Spider-Man movie. The latest actor to don the suit, Tom Holland,…
REVIEW: The Favourite (2018) dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
Yorgos Lanthimos does not do normal. What, at first glance, could seem like a standard costume drama about a long dead monarch,…
