(12/23) DOUBLE FEATURE: DIE HARD (1988) DIR. JOHN MCTIERNAN & DIE HARD 2 (1990)...
A friend of mine once posed a question: How does Bruce Willis get to keep making movies? It’s a fair question when…
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(12/12 & 12/13) BLACK CHRISTMAS (1974) DIR. BOB CLARK @COOLIDGE
As I’ve described in this space before, horror movies are one of pop culture’s greatest tools for counter-programming. For nearly every popular…
(12/12 – 12/14) BURROUGHS @BRATTLE
It’s difficult to overstate the impact William S. Burroughs had on the counterculture of the 20th century. To get a general idea…
(12/5 & 12/6) BATMAN RETURNS (1992) DIR. TIM BURTON @COOLIDGE
For one of the most iconic pop cultural characters of the twentieth century, Batman can be tough to pin down. The basics…
(12/3) WONDER WOMAN (1974) DIR. VINCENT MCEVEETY @BRATTLE
Jill Lepore, author of THE SECRET HISTORY OF WONDER WOMAN, introduces one of its strangest chapters: the failed pilot to a pre-Lynda…
(11/21-11/22) THE ROOM / THE NEIGHBORS (2003/2014) DIR. TOMMY WISEAU @COOLIDGE
Enough has been written about THE ROOM, Tommy Wiseau’s weirdly hypnotic anti-masterpiece, that a decent article about its unlikely success practically writes…
(11/14 – 11/15) SHOCK WAVES (1977) DIR. KEN WIEDERHORN @COOLIDGE
It must have been hard to be an independent producer in the golden age of exploitation cinema. Working on a minuscule budget…
(11/14 – 11/15) URGH! A MUSIC WAR (1981) DIR. DEREK BURBIDGE @BRATTLE
In 1820, naturalist James Audubon declared his intention to paint and describe every bird in North America in a single volume. Using…
(10/30) THE TINGLER (1959) DIR. WILLIAM CASTLE @BRATTLE
William Castle isn’t exactly a household name, but it would not be an exaggeration to call him a household archetype. Decades of…
(10/10) J. CANNIBAL’S FEAST OF FLESH XII FEAT. BAD TASTE @COOLIDGE
It’s the end of an era for local cult movie aficionados: tonight, at the stroke of midnight, local entertainer/mortician/bad motherfucker J. Cannibal…
(9/26 – 10/2) 20,000 DAYS ON EARTH (2014) DIR. IAIN FORSYTH & JANE POLLARD...
Few musicians embody their work as fully as Nick Cave. You don’t have to hear a note of Murder Ballads or The…
(9/22) POPEYE (1980) DIR. ROBERT ALTMAN @BRATTLE
There are two types of family traditions in this world. The first is the long-standing cultural tradition, the kind that millions of…
