REVIEW: Phantom Thread (2017) dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
Not long ago, my brother and I were talking about revisiting Gangs of New York (2002) upon its addition to Netflix’s streaming…
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Not long ago, my brother and I were talking about revisiting Gangs of New York (2002) upon its addition to Netflix’s streaming…
Sometimes, and with what seems like increasing frequency, Boston skips the spring. Instead of a gradual, gentle fading of winter which gives…
Even the first time you see it, even if you have no idea what’s in store, there’s something unsettling in the way…
Early in Jem Cohen’s collaborative document of the legendary Washington D.C. band, Fugazi, Ian MacKaye describes the band’s name as “a quite…
Contemporary Color is a blast. The unique concept was devised by the pop-styled genius of David Byrne to marry inquisitive dance music…
I have loved the Beatles as far back as I can remember, and think that their music was, in fact, art. I…
Vladimir Wormwood is a Mainer currently living in Allston, and a regular contributor to Film Flam at Boston Hassle. He devotes himself,…
Louis Malle doesn’t exactly fit in with the French New Wave. Malle was never a critic, wasn’t close to François Truffaut or…
At the time of its release Orson Welles described Chimes at Midnight (1965) as a story of a friendship betrayed. He would…
Kate Plays Christine (2016) unfolds as an unavoidably nauseating experience of speculative fiction. It is an inventive and relentlessly self-conscious document of…
“Everyone’s entitled to one good scare,” says a policeman in an American horror classic somehow not screening this October around Boston. Scary movies…
Growing up, my parents used to read my sister a book called Pish Posh Said Hieronymus Bosch. This fragment of memory is…