ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT
FESTIVAL REPORT: BUFF-O-WEEN AT THE SOMERVILLE
An ongoing local film program that we’ve shamefully yet to cover here in the pages of DigBoston is the Boston Underground Film Festival’s “Dispatches from the Underground,” held monthly at the Somerville Theatre to show both short films and features that embody the BUFF programming mantra. Having thus expanded into a regular monthly fixture within […]
NICK OFFERMAN: THE MAN WHO IS MORE THAN RON SWANSON TALKS ABOUT WOODWORKING, POLITICS & LOVE
I love making people say at some point in the performance, Oh my God, that’s the guy who played that other thing.
LOCAL MOVIE, MAJOR THEATER: HOW FILMMAKER JOHNNY HICKEY GETS HIS MASS FLICKS ON THE BIG SCREEN
“You go to these different places and you’re not Hollywood, you’re a local guy. It was really hard the first time, but Oxy Morons earned me credit in that world—a lot of people I became connected with really came to believe in what I am doing.”
WHAT’S FOR BREAKFAST? INSENSITIVE
FILM REVIEW: “3 FROM HELL”
Returning to the material which produced The Devil’s Rejects (2005), Rob Zombie resurrects his most cherished characters in 3 From Hell (2019)—and in reanimating them, undoes nearly everything the prior film accomplished. Opening with a strong expository prologue filmed in the manner of late ’80s tabloid-news TV, 3 From Hell instructs us that the villains killed off […]
WAR GOSPEL: WALTER SICKERT & THE ARMY OF BROKEN TOYS MARCHES ON THE WORLD
The ARmy is designing a live spectacle for the Hayden Planetarium at the Museum of Science, all while sticking to its annual seasonal schedule of live-scoring Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde in New Hampshire, and performing a music and dance tribute to The Nightmare Before Christmas at OBERON.
EXCERPT: FROM ‘BLACK LIVES, NATIVE LANDS, WHITE WORLDS: A HISTORY OF SLAVERY IN NEW ENGLAND’
The slave quarters standing at 15 George Street is the only freestanding slave quarters north of the Mason-Dixon Line still existing in the United States.
OUR FAVORITE PLACES TO CRY IN BOSTON
Since many of our friends in other cities have included lists of the best places to cry on campus in their back-to-school guides, we thought it would be fun—if not a bit depressing, in a shameless click-whorey kind of way—to expand such a survey to an entire metro region.
FILM REVIEW: “THE HOTTEST AUGUST”
Certain nonfiction and experimental cinema forebears were quite present during the 2019 iteration of the Camden International Film Festival, which exhibited numerous films that were far more than mere tributes to their predecessors but proudly wore citations on their surfaces anyway. The program “Shorts X: The Hermit”, for instance, included two separate works, Ellie Ga’s […]
