Why, they ask, would we remind Greater Bostonians about the hell that awaits?
READY AND CHILLING: YOU MAY FEAR THE IDEA OF A WINTER PREVIEW, BUT YOU STILL NEED TO PREPARE
Netflix
COOKING ON HIGH: MORE THAN JUST ANOTHER SHOW TO WATCH ON NETFLIX WHILE YOU’RE GETTING STONED
It’s not the most polished show streaming, but it is pretty damn picture-perfect in its tone and approach, and that’s quite an accomplishment considering how often other marijuana media misses the mark.
THE NATURALS: STARTUP BOSTON CRIME DRAMA AIMS TO KILL WITHOUT CLICHES
“The Naturals” takes the traditionally hypermasculine crime genre and turns it on its head, placing a queer female lead at its center and making her the driver of the action.
NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND: REPORT #1 FROM BUFF 2017
The happening plays host to the too strange, the too scary, the too sexual—the films that are all too something to play anywhere else around here.
HOW RORY GILMORE FAILED LOCAL MEDIA
This is not a review of the new Gilmore Girls ... just my cheap personal gripe that seemed worth sharing
STREAMING PILE: ON NETFLIX, FILMSTRUCK, AND ALBERT BROOKS
On Netflix, Filmstruck, cord-cutting, and hoping that Albert Brooks can save it all
FROM TIFF TO FLIX: BEASTS OF NO NATION
Brutally emotional and physical warfare played out across children's faces
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT: MORE THAN JUST A PLOT DEVICE
The government has maintained that there is no systematic use of solitary confinement in America, but evidence shows otherwise.
DOPE INTERVIEW: “DOPE” STAR SHAMEIK MOORE ON SUDDEN STARDOM AND THE SWAG GAME AT SUNDANCE
When we asked if he was concerned he’d been seen as an actor-first, musician-second, he (no hesitation) compared himself to Drake.
SNOW MORE, THANKS
Battle the elements by way of films, sloth, and Netflix
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.
CHARLESTOWN DRUG FLICK ‘OXYMORONS’ KEEPS THE WAR ON OPIATES RAGING
When Johnny Hickey first cold-called DigBoston more than five years ago looking for us to write about him, he was a twenty-something Charlestown tough with an unlikely story: He had survived a plummet into the Quincy quarries, the end result of a drug deal gone wrong, and was determined to ...
SMALL SCREEN HEROES
Some eggs have chickens, some just have chicken shit.
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 ...
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE: BEHIND THE SCENES WITH BOSTON’S FILM PROGRAMMERS
NERDY JOBS: FILM PROGRAMMERS EDITION
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 ...
