REVIEW: BOYHOOD (2014) DIR. RICHARD LINKLATER @KENDALL
When Mason (Ellar Coltrane) turns 16, his divorced father (a ne’er-do-well played with loose-limbed likability by Linklater-regular Ethan Hawke) fails to give…
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REVIEW: SCANNERS (1981) DIR. DAVID CRONENBERG
To mark the Criterion Collection’s release this week of SCANNERS on Blu-ray — notable, among other reasons, for the inclusion of Cronenberg’s…
WENT THERE: KEITH FULLERTON WHITMAN @ FRESH AIR ’14
Our Fresh Air at Ringer Park show in Allston featured some transcendental vibes to help compliment the sun-drenched, city-park landscape against which…
REVIEW: VENUS IN FUR (2013) DIR. ROMAN POLANSKI @KENDALL & COOLIDGE
There is something voyeuristic about watching VENUS IN FUR, Roman Polanski‘s newest film. The film stars his wife, Emmanuelle Seigner, playing an actress…
WENT THERE: HORSE LORDS @ Neverland (JP) 5/31/14
Baltimore’s polyrhythmic krautrockers HORSE LORDS spun a web of shifting, dense jams at Neverland in JP just a month or so ago…
TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION (2014) DIR. MICHAEL BAY @AMC
Last year, Michael Bay made the best film of his career. PAIN & GAIN was an unfiltered and brutally hilarious black comedy…
WENT THERE: FREE PIZZA & IAN – LIVE @ FRESH AIR ’14
Now that summer has arrived and the weather trends towards the oppressively humid, it’s as good a time as any to cast…
WENT THERE: PALBERTA – LIVE @ DEEP THOUGHTS, 6/22/14
It’s too easy to directly compare a band like Palberta to their No Wave/Post-Punk brethren. Sure, the similarities are there, but their…
(7/4 – 7/10) AI WEIWEI: THE FAKE CASE (2013) DIR. ANDREAS JOHNSEN @KENDALL
Early on in the Danish documentary AI WEIWEI: THE FAKE CASE, we see our hero at home taking his son Ai Lao…
SCORCHED EAR: DOOMSDAY STUDENT @ CeL 6/13/14
Crazy is as crazy does, and the members ofDOOMSDAY STUDENT (they being also mems of ARAB ON RADAR) are still crazy after…
WENT THERE: ZIPPERHEAD @ Roggie’s 5/14/14
Dipping a little further back into the putrid pile of WENT THERE vids in my stash is this over before you know…
WENT THERE: BUGS AND RATS @ NEVERLAND (JP) 5/31/14
Caught the nasty trio of BUGS AND RATS over in JP in the basement of a house on a steep hill, just…
