
Bob Chipman and Steve Head go over the Boston-area repertory screening scene for July, once again recorded on-location at The Video Underground in Jamaica Plain.

BABY DRIVER
“BABY DRIVER is a good source of entertainment that’s easy to appreciate right from the very beginning.” – Jaskee Hickman, Cinematic Essential
“I guess calling him CAR-LORD would’ve been a bit on the nose.” – Bob Chipman, Geek.com
“Does the film ever live up to the bliss of its opening moments? Not quite; but, I’ll be damned if it doesn’t try and succeed in, at the very least, being one of the coolest movies I’ll likely see this year.” – Greg Vellante, Edge Boston
“For a director of such awesome technical proficiency, Wright demonstrates with every precision-tooled edit that he knows how to make a movie, but he can’t seem to convey a compelling reason why.” – Sean Burns, The ARTery
“…the proverbial summer action movie, but done with enough wit and flair that you don’t feel like you’ve seen it over and over again…” – Daniel M. Kimmel, North Shore Movies
THE BEGUILED
“THE BEGUILED’s portraiture of the Southern belle archetype isn’t an endorsement. It’s a mounting indictment verging on satire.” – Andy Crump, Paste Magazine
“The film is full of wry observations about the countless little ways women become competitors once a man is introduced into the picture.” – Sean Burns, The ARTery
OKJA
“We are even ‘treated’ to a scene where a drunken (man) takes samples of Okja flesh, cooks it up and then feeds it to taste testers who proclaim it the best pork they’ve ever eaten…It’s all pretty disgusting.” – John Black, Boston Event Guide
“In OKJA, Bong Joon Ho has created an imaginative film that’s well crafted and delivers much of what you might be hoping for.” – Jaskee Hickman, Cinematic Essential
“Love him or hate him, there’s nobody else making movies quite like this guy.” – Sean Burns, The ARTery
THE BIG SICK
“If you were to spend just under two hours telling me this same story at a party, I’d be making up an excuse to leave the conversation. Just because you decide to film it doesn’t necessarily mean it was worth being filmed in the first place.” – Greg Vellante, Edge Boston
“This isn’t a *bad* movie per se, but it is an extremely frustrating one that left me longing for the days when rom-coms weren’t structured like THE RETURN OF THE KING.” – Sean Burns, Spliced Personality
DESPICABLE ME 3
“Mainly due to the characters and their zany antics, DESPICABLE ME 3 works far better than it probably should have.” – Jaskee Hickman, Cinematic Essential
“This seems like a funny concept, but it turns out to be a handful of tired clichés, accented with some catchy ’80s pop music.” – Michael Cox, Edge Boston
“The real strength of the films is the writing and animation, which manage to provide laughs for all age levels from slapstick to sly pop culture references.” – Daniel M. Kimmel, North Shore Movies
Tim Estiloz interviews Kumail Nanjiani
Dierdre Crimmins joins a podcast on Mummy movies
Andrew Crump interviews Ana Lily Amirpour and Trey Edward Shults
Kilian Melloy reviews new Blu-ray releases for THE VALACHI PAPERS, BRIDGE AT REMAGEN, T2 TRAINSPOTTING, THE LODGER and THE QUIET AMERICAN
Spoilerpiece Theatre talks WAR MACHINE, TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT and THE BAD BATCH
Bob Chipman talks SPIDER-MAN and Classic Gaming
Dan Kimmel has a new short story
Joyce Kulhawik reviews FAT PIG, THE EFFECT and DAYS OF ATONEMENT
TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT
“If there’s a movie worse than this set for release this year, let’s hope the distributor has the good sense not to do it.” – Daniel M. Kimmel, North Shore Movies
“Like the movies that preceded it, TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT is empty in virtually all aspects.” – Jaskee Hickman, Cinematic Essential
“By the obligatory third-act throwdown, we as an audience have been so nauseated and bored for hours that the final epic battle just feels more like work than enjoying an entertaining summer blockbuster.” – Nick Casaletto, We Live Entertainment
“I honestly don’t know how to meaningfully “critique” this nonsense anymore.” – Bob Chipman, Geek.com
THE BAD BATCH
“THE BAD BATCH is the kind of oddity that arrives early in promising careers, leaving the viewer bewildered but nonetheless eager to see what comes next.” – Sean Burns, The ARTery
“It’s messy, though astonishingly well-made, but then, maybe we shouldn’t expect a movie where cannibalism plays a central role to be clean.” – Andy Crump, A Constant Visual Feast
THE EXCEPTION
“You could certainly do worse than to enjoy this film for its brash thrills and sumptuous visuals, while remaining open to its timely message.” – Kilian Melloy, Edge Boston
Kilian Melloy reviews LOST IN PARIS
Andrew Crump joins in on Paste’s Top 100 Horror Films list and reviews KILL SWITCH
Spoilerpiece Theatre talks ROUGH NIGHT, 47 METERS DOWN, THE BOOK OF HENRY and HELL HOUSE LLC
Bob Chipman looks back on FREAKAZOID! and ranks his Top Ten Nintendo NES Games
Nick Casaletto reviews AND THEN I GO, WHAT WE STARTED
Max Covill and Evan Crean talk 80s movies on Its The Pictures Podcast