April 30, 2009 1 Comment
BROOKLINE — It appears they saved the best for last. The closing film for the Independent Film Festival of Boston, “World’s Greatest Dad” represents the work of a mature, intelligent, thoughtful director, a man who wants to discuss loneliness, pain and the strange environment of middle age. Written and Directed by: Bobcat Goldthwait Starring: Robin [...]
April 30, 2009 5 Comments
SOMERVILLE – It is always a question in documentary about how the camera effects its subject- how do documentary filmmakers consciously or unconsciously affect the film they are making, and hence the truth they are trying to tell? This question kept ringing in my head while watching the screening of “Invisible Girlfriend,” a documentary about [...]
April 30, 2009 2 Comments
The most frustrating thing about watching “The Brothers Bloom” is that if it had ended 20 minutes earlier it would have been just about perfect. Rian Johnson, who came out of the ether with a bang two years ago with his brilliant and sophisticated “Brick” makes all the classic mistakes for a sophomore director in [...]
April 30, 2009 Leave a Comment
Is watching this movie about film critics completely self-involved? In the immortal words of Sarah Palin, you betcha! An unapologetic sermon on the importance of film criticism in American culture, this Boston-made documentary chronicles the little-known history of the film industry’s relationship to those that sought to find its meaning. The film itself is not [...]
April 21, 2009 Leave a Comment
I’ll preface this by saying that I feel writing this review is somewhat of a conflict of interest. Not that I know anyone that had to do with its production. But as a member of the print media, I feel as if this film was made especially for me. “State of Play” is a reasonably [...]
April 8, 2009 Leave a Comment
Emma Rose Johnson and the Miller brothers discuss inspiration, fate and Brad Dourif’s theories on goat milk.
April 7, 2009 Leave a Comment
It is almost universally agreed upon that Hollywood is a terrible place. A soulless corner of the earth where creativity, ingenuity and love go to die. Watch any film or read any book about making movies, and you’ll find a coterie of deceitful producers, unpleasant agents and wide-eyed blondes from the mid-West who do Terrible [...]
April 7, 2009 Leave a Comment
My favorite summer was three years ago; I remember every day of it, in sounds, and smells and orange-tinted light. “Adventureland” may not have much of a plot, but it perfectly captures the essence of that one great summer: a lazy, sensory stop-gap to the next big adventure in your life.
March 5, 2009 1 Comment
CAMBRIDGE — One of the less pleasant aspects of the American film industry is its unwritten mandate that films about non-Americans are distributed rarely and with little fanfare (unless, of course, they’re nominated for an Oscar). If one does not live in a major metropolitan area where art house theaters allow access to foreign films, [...]
March 4, 2009 Leave a Comment
McSweeney’s video about new Spiegelman book.
Feb. 25, 2009 Leave a Comment
Blast spoke to Tamara Anghie, the producer of “New Boy,” two days before her debut at the Oscars.
Feb. 23, 2009 Leave a Comment
“Slumdog Millionaire” struck it rich at the 81st Academy Awards Sunday. The Danny Boyle film about life in the slums of Mumbai garnered eight Oscars, leaving its competition “Milk” and “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” in the dust. Boyle, upon taking the stage to receive his award for Best Director, jumped up and down [...]
Feb. 8, 2009 1 Comment
I love Steve Martin. I loved him on Saturday Night Live. I love his classic roles in “The Jerk” and “Roxanne.” And I love his newer roles, particularly his bit part as a hippie business owner in “Baby Mama” and a guest star appearance he made on 30 Rock. But I cannot forgive him this. [...]
Jan. 29, 2009 Leave a Comment
In one of the major deals brokered during the Sundance Film Festival last week, Fox Searchlight Pictures acquired the worldwide distribution rights to “Adam,” a film by Max Mayer. Searchlight President Peter Rice announced the deal Jan. 20.The film, an unconventional love story starring Hugh Dancy and Rose Byrne, will be released some time in [...]
Jan. 28, 2009 Leave a Comment
Michael Buckley, star of the wildly popular “What the Buck?” web show on Youtube, will host the new online series “Minisode Maniac.” The show premiered Jan. 27 on Crackle.com. “Maniac,” produced by Sony Picture Television, will showcase and comment on different “minisodes” from The Minisode Network. A minisode is a five-minute adaptation of a popular [...]
