Final Destination (2000) dir. James Wong
11/16 @ Coolidge
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REVIEW: The Report (2019) dir. Scott Z. Burns
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REVIEW: The Irishman (2019) dir. Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese is our greatest working filmmaker. At this point, this is scarcely up for debate; no director has given us so…
REVIEW: Doctor Sleep (2019) dir. Mike Flanagan
or: Still Shinin'
Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971) dir. Yoshimitsu Banno
11/2 @ Coolidge
REVIEW: The Current War: Director’s Cut (2017/2019) dir. Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
It’s become a bit of a cliche that we live in accelerated times. Where movies, TV shows, and other pop cultural touchstones…
REVIEW: Dolemite Is My Name (2019) dir. Craig Brewer
When I was 14 years old, I got my first turntable. This was the late ‘90s, when collecting vinyl was deeply unfashionable;…
INTERVIEW: Director Robert Eggers on ‘THE LIGHTHOUSE’
No one working in cinema today does New England dread quite like Robert Eggers. The New Hampshire native’s first movie, 2015’s modern…
Buffoween Day Four: Blood and Flesh, Daniel Isn’t Real
And so we’ve made it to the end to the first annual Buffoween, the Boston Underground Film Festival’s abundantly welcome expansion into…
BUFFOWEEN DAY THREE: Tammy and the T-Rex, Blood on Her Name
For the most part, genre film festivals play by the same general playbook as “straight” festivals: they serve as a showcase for…
BUFFOWEEN, DAY TWO: Born of Woman, The Golden Glove
Welcome back! In case you’re just tuning in, I’m covering each night of the Boston Underground Film Festival’s first annual Buffoween series….
BUFFOWEEN DAY ONE: Extra Ordinary (2019) dir. Mike Ahern & Edna Loughman
As any longtime reader of the Hassle’s film section will know, few events are nearer or dearer to our hearts than the…
