His Girl Friday (1940) dir. Howard Hawks
Around this time last year, I crafted something of a private ritual that I came to call “Screwball Saturdays.” Each Saturday morning,…
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REVIEW: Midsommar (2019) dir. Ari Aster
Skål!
REVIEW: The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019) dir. Joe Talbot
"You're not allowed to hate it if you don't love it."
REVIEW: The Dead Don’t Die (2019) dir. Jim Jarmusch
It’s funny how expectations can set the tone for a film’s perception. When it was announced that indie film legend Jim Jarmusch…
FIVE QUESTIONS: ‘GEORGIE’ Creators John Campopiano & Ryan Grulich
Readers of Film Flam will be familiar with John Campopiano: the local filmmaker (and erstwhile cryptid) is one of the foremost scholars…
Cockfighter (1974) dir. Monte Hellman
“To my knowledge, no one had ever made a picture about cockfighting,” producer Roger Corman recalled in his autobiography. “Now I know…
REVIEW: Ma (2019) dir. Tate Taylor
If you aren’t the sort of person who follows the minutiae of trash cinema (or, honestly, even if you are), you might…
The Color of Pomegranates (1969) dir. Sergei Parajanov
There are times when writing about film for the Hassle feels a little like being a missionary. The thought stepping up to…
INTERVIEW: Aswad Singer & ‘BABYLON’ Star Brinsley Forde
In a just world, anyone reading this would already be familiar with Babylon, Franco Rosso’s underseen 1980 cult film about London’s legendary…
BIG 3 FILM: Satanic Panic!
SATANIC PANIC! Fri 5/3 – Sat 6/1 Midnights @ Coolidge Corner Theatre All shows $13.25 Ahh, springtime in Boston, when the Charles…
The House of the Devil (2009) dir. Ti West
"Are you not the babysitter?"
IFFBOSTON REVIEW: Gutterbug (2019) dir. Andrew Gibson
There are movies that hit close to home, and then there’s Gutterbug, the feature debut from local music video director Andrew Gibson….
