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MORE MIDDLE-EARTH: THE CONCLUSION OF PETER JACKSON’S TRYING TRILOGY

Written by KRISTOFER JENSON Posted December 16, 2014 Filed Under: A+E, Film

Eru help us all if Peter Jackson ever decides to adapt War and Peace.

Filed Under: A+E, Film Tagged With: Battle of the Five Armies, film review, J.R.R. Tolkien, Lonely Mountain, LoTr, Middle-earth, Peter Jackson, Rocky II, Smaug, The Desolation of Smaug, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, Thorin Oakenshield, Tim Burton, trilogy, War and Peace

BOYS AND CURLS: ‘BAD HAIR’ EXPLORES THE COLLISION OF ADOLESCENCE, MASCULINITY AND SOCIETAL EXPECTATIONS

Written by KRISTOFER JENSON Posted December 3, 2014 Filed Under: Film

One of the more frustrating ordeals our society subjects children to is the way we categorize their behavior into personality types we’ve created before they’ve had any time to figure out who they are for themselves. How pointless it is to tell a girl who doesn’t like dresses that she’s a ...  read more

Filed Under: Film Tagged With: Bad Hair, Billy Elliot, Dig Boston, DigBoston, film review, Junior, Mariana Rondon, MFA, Pelo Malo

JONES UNCHAINED: ‘THE HOMESMAN’ RETHINKS THE REVISIONIST WESTERN

Written by KRISTOFER JENSON Posted November 21, 2014 Filed Under: Film

At a time when the Revisionist Western is now more common than the traditional variety it subverted, the market for new angles from which to deconstruct America’s expansion has gotten a bit flooded. There are no more tales of do-gooders and lawmen versus scoundrels and ruffians who want to exploit ...  read more

Filed Under: Film Tagged With: Clint Eastwood, Dig Boston, DigBoston, film review, Kevin Costner, The Homesman, Tommy Lee Jones, Unforgiven, Westerns

REVIEW: HER

Written by KRISTOFER JENSON Posted January 2, 2014 Filed Under: A+E, Film

Unh Unh Her

Filed Under: A+E, Film Tagged With: Boston, Dig, DigBoston, film review, Her, Joaquin Phoenix, Manic Pixie Dream Girl, movie review, scarlett johansson, Spike Jonze

REVIEW: I DECLARE WAR

Written by KRISTOFER JENSON Posted August 28, 2013 Filed Under: A+E, Film

MV_IDeclareWar

War is H-E-Double-Hockey-Sticks

Filed Under: A+E, Film Tagged With: Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, children, film review, harvard square, I Declare War, imagination, Jason Lapeyre, kids, movie, Robert Wilson, underground filmmaking, war

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