“There was a huge amount of playfulness in the making of the movie. It didn’t necessarily come out frame after frame. But our teamwork, let’s say, or our just hanging out, was an important part of how it evolved.”
THE LONG JOURNEY HOME
A new film aims to shatter stigmas around public housing
DEAR READER: I GUESS THIS TURNED INTO OUR ANTI-OPIATE ISSUE
All these years later, it’s absolutely unbelievable what has become of this mess.
EXCLUSIVE: HICKEY’S NEW HABIT
Oxy Morons writer-director returns with a drug-addled North Shore gore fest
SECRET ASIAN MAN: CENTRAL CASTING
If you can’t beat ’em…
WITH AMC’S MONTHLY MOVIE PASS, A FLICK A DAY JUST GOT A WHOLE LOT CHEAPER
If you were to actually use the $45 monthly movie pass every day in a 30-day month, you’d be spending $1.50 on each screening – the lowest fare I’ve seen in my lifetime. That said, you don’t need to be a die hard to see the benefits. At IMAX tickets of upwards of $18, going to the theater three times in one month with the pass saves you money. With the $35 pass, you’d only need to go four times.
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE: BEHIND THE SCENES WITH BOSTON’S FILM PROGRAMMERS
Images by Scott Murry unless otherwise noted One hour before a midnight screening, Mark Anastasio, program manager at Brookline’s Coolidge Corner Theatre, is firming up his pre-show introduction. Tonight’s film is John Carpenter’s classic They Live, the satirical tale of a man who discovers that many of the planet’s wealthy elite are really aliens in […]
A WELCOME SURPRISE
Jenny Slate’s Obvious Child is the abortion narrative cinema has been lacking
A JEWISH MARXIST’S GUIDE TO XMAS MOVIES
I may never fully appreciate the Christmas spirit, but I can help you get some perspective on yours.
TOP 10 KUNG FU MOVIES YOU COULD BE STREAMING ON NETFLIX RIGHT. NOW.
‘The only thing better than seeing a kung fu master somehow manage to combine parkour with decapitation is watching the severed head explode, gruesomely, in a mix of what is clearly food-dyed oatmeal and Hawaiian Punch.’ The sugar-cookie high is starting to fade, and Uncle Marty’s drunken sex-life questions are only just beginning: Face it, […]
