
Bob Chipman and Steve Head break down the Boston-area September repertory scene
Jake Mulligan profiles GOOD TIME’s Safdie Brothers.
Spoilerpiece Theatre talks LOGAN LUCKY, THE PRODUCERS, HEAD and AN INCONVENIENT SEQUEL
Nick Casaletto reviews TWIN PEAKS and REMEMORY
Norm Schrager catches up with THE FOUNDER
Bob Chipman talks Nintendo movies and catches up with DAVE MADE A MAZE
Andrew Crump reviews THE VILLAINESS, LEMON, BUSHWICK and helps rank The 50 Best Samurai Movies
GOOD TIME
“It’s one thing to make a film with great inspiration and another to use that inspiration to harbor and hone a unique vision.” – Sam Cohen, Substream Magazine
“… an edgy, electrifying movie that feels a little bit dangerous.” – Sean Burns, The ARTery
“With GOOD TIME, the Safdies have created something decidedly poppier, leaving behind the melodrama of HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT in favor of something more like a crime odyssey.” – Jake Mulligan, Dig Boston
“Swiveling from gut-busting laughter to nail-biting danger, heart-racing panic attacks to heartbreaking desolation, playful surrealism to staggering social commentary, GOOD TIME is a hell of a thing and will remain one of the year’s very best films.” – Greg Vellante, Edge Boston
INGRID GOES WEST
“…INGRID GOES WEST has a lot of great material to work with — mental illness, loneliness, alcoholism, narcissism, the desolate vacuum of social media — but it never quite grasps any of the ideas and themes its aiming to put on the table.” – Greg Vellante, Edge Boston
“…despite all the film’s qualities, it becomes just as basic as the people it mocks—because who needs to go to the movies to feel superior to a typical Instagram post? ” – Jake Mulligan, Dig Boston
Jaskee Hickman reviews THE ADVENTURERS
Bob Chipman talk THE DEFENDERS, classic TMNT games and the Joker Origin Movie
Andy Crump looks at THE DEFENDERS, BEACH RATS, MARJORIE PRIME,
Spoilerpiece Theatre talks THE HITMAN’S BODYGUARD, THE B-SIDE, BREAKER MORRANT AND AGUIRRE: THE WRATH OF GOD
Daniel Kimmel joins a new short-story anthology
Joyce Kulhawik reviews MARJORIE PRIME
THE HITMAN’S BODYGUARD
“There are a lot of blazing thrills in this film, from Hayek’s scorching turn to ceaseless weapons fire, to a late-breaking detonation or two (not to mention an unexpected moment featuring a human torch), but despite its fever-pitch sound and fury this action flick is a misfire.” – Kilian Melloy, Edge Boston
“Samuel L. Jackson prevents THE HITMAN’S BODYGUARD from falling apart.”- Jaskee Hickman, Cinematic Essential
“It mixes the violence, the chases, and some quirky humor into a potent late summer cocktail.” – Daniel M. Kimmel, North Shore Movies
LOGAN LUCKY
“The film has the tossed-off, casual sophistication of an old master’s late work, the kind of thing great directors make when they’ve already forgotten more than a lot of filmmakers will ever know.” – Sean Burns, The ARTery
“…with Soderbergh back in the driver’s seat you know you’re in or an enjoyable ride.” – Kilian Melloy, Edge Boston
“Once more unto the breach he goes with LOGAN LUCKY, which stuck out to this writer as a retooling of what Soderbergh does incredibly well: ensembles.” – Sam Cohen, Substream Magazine
“Steven Soderbergh makes it look easy.” – Brett Michel, The Improper Bostonian
“Even though very few will see it, LOGAN LUCKY will delight the people who do.” – Jaskee Hickman, Cinematic Essential
“Soderbergh knows precisely how the formula works: likable leads, eccentric supporting characters, a complicated plan, unexpected glitches, and a reason to sympathize with the robbers rather than the victims.” – Daniel M. Kimmel, North Shore Movies
MENASHE
“..a sharp, moving dissection of personal identity and self-agency. You don’t need to know Yiddish to make sense of that.” – Andy Crump, Paste Magazine
“It immerses us in this community, and by the end of the film, it’s hard not to feel like a part of it.” – Greg Vellante, Edge Boston
THE TRIP TO SPAIN
“It’s all just more of the same, so frequent flyers get rewarded. It’s all a matter of what lens you’re viewing the franchise through.” – Greg Vellante, Edge Boston
“These movies have yet to fizzle out and lose their appeal or run out of creative space to explore, and frankly, because they use the lives of two very real people as their bases, they probably never will.” – Andy Crump, Paste Magazine
THE ONLY LIVING BOY IN NEW YORK
“If anything, one might wish the film had gone even farther, but for it to have done what it has — sitting in a pit of its own urban provincialism, hard and bright as a diamond and as alluringly lethal as a hateful smile — is, in itself, nothing short of refreshing.” – Kilian Melloy, Edge Boston
MARJORIE PRIME
“…you feel active while you’re watching MARJORIE PRIME — engaged in a way you don’t at films that lazily spell everything out for you.” – Sean Burns, The ARTery