REVIEW: American Dharma (2018) dir. Errol Morris
“People keep asking me, ‘Why did you make this movie?’” said Errol Morris, the award-winning documentarian, following a preview screening of his…
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Oscar Goff’s Top Ten Films of 2018
Oscar Goff has been the managing film editor for Boston Hassle and the Boston Compass since 2015, and has been writing for…
Mandy (2018) dir. Panos Cosmatos
When I reviewed Luca Guadagnino’s remake of Suspiria late last year, I mused that it would likely take me some time to…
EARLY WARNING: Dispatches from the Underground presents GORT’S SHORTS!
It should come as no surprise to regular Film Flam readers that we’re huge fans of both the Boston Underground Film Festival…
Black Narcissus (1947) dir. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
If you’re anything like me, you spent much of the month of November feverishly trying to burn through your watchlist on Filmstruck….
Häxan (1922) dir. Benjamin Christensen
One of the great things about alternative cinema spaces is the potential for counterprogramming. For every superhero blockbuster, you’re liable to find…
Child’s Play (1988) dir. Tom Holland
Long before Scream laid down the law on horror cinema’s “very specific formula,” it was accepted as a truism that iconic slashers…
REVIEW: The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot (2018) dir. Robert D....
As hard as it is to believe, it’s now been over a decade since the release of Grindhouse, Quentin Tarantino and Robert…
REVIEW: Suspiria (2018) dir. Luca Guadagnino
When it was announced in 2008 that Suspiria, Dario Argento’s legendary blacklight poster of a horror film, would be receiving a remake,…
A Bucket of Blood (1959) dir. Roger Corman
Roger Corman occupies a curious place in Hollywood history. Over the past sixty-five years (and counting!) he has directed and/or produced over…
(10/26-10/31) The Afterlives of Frankenstein @HFA
Over the past couple of centuries or so, the veritable white whale of fiction writers has been to create work as immortal…
The Innocents (1961) dir. Jack Clayton
No one does ghost stories quite like the British. The locale obviously lends itself to spookery, with its centuries-old buildings, cramped quarters,…
