BOFCA’s Bob Chipman and Steve Head break down the Boston-area repertory screening scene for October 2015
THE TRANSPORTER: REFUELED
“It’s easy to see why Jason Statham has no interest in doing anymore of these.” – Jaskee Hickman, Cinematic Essential
“It’s the cotton candy of action films. It’s fun while you’re enjoying it, but not something that you’ll remember” – Daniel Kimmel, North Shore Movies
GRANDMA
“Tomlin’s playing the Billy Bob Thornton role here, as a tough-talking, take-no-prisoners sort on a journey through her checkered past asking for money on her own terms.” – Sean Burns, Spliced Personality
“A gripping reminder that accessing abortion is a problem predominantly faced by people with low incomes or few means to travel to a clinic that might be hundreds of miles away.” – Monica Castillo, Bitch Media
A WALK IN THE WOODS
“Broad, sitcommy and would by all rights probably be unwatchable if it didn’t happen to star Robert Redford and Nick Nolte.” – Sean Burns, Spliced Personality
Jaskee Hickman looks at SAMBA
Joyce Kulhawik reviews THE RUNNER
John Black looks at ASSASSINATION
Bob Chipman looks at Forgotten Video-Game Heroines
Sean Burns reviews COP CAR and PAT GARRETT & BILLY THE KID
Sam Cohen reviews THE END OF THE TOUR
Jared Bowen looks at WAITRESS and David Lynch
Monica Castillo reports on AWKWARD Season 5
Spoilerpiece Theatre talks FANTASTIC FOUR and SHAUN THE SHEEP
Andy Crump looks at HOUSE and the Best of Criterion’s New Releases
Sean Burns looks back at Robert Altman’s POPEYE and reviews LISTEN TO ME MARLON
Bob Chipman was profiled in The New Yorker
David Riedel looks at A PIGEON SAT ON A BRANCH REFLECTING ON EXISTENCE
Andy Crump reviews BEST OF ENEMIES and PAULO COELHO’S BEST STORY
Spoilerpiece Theatre talks MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: ROGUE NATION
Charlie Nash reports from Fantasia International Film Festival: I AM THOR, A CHRISTMAS HORROR STORY, HARUKO’S PARANORMAL LABORATORY and THE BLUE HOUR
Deirdre Crimmins reports from Fantasia International Film Festival: JERUZALEM, OBSERVANCE, CASH ONLY and CHERRY TREE
BOFCA’s Bob Chipman and Steve Head examine the wide variety of films playing on the Boston-area repertory scene for the month of August, 2015