Twit 2014 - Buzz Talk & News

Wait a minute, that's only six days! What the heck is going on here? Oh, the calendars I've been using as scrapbooks for the past five years have gone from running Monday-to-Sunday on a page to running Sunday-to-Saturday. Why would they do tha...

My cunning plan for using vacation time this year: Take the week of Christmas off and see if I'd be better off shopping during the hours when other folks are working than on the weekend or in the evening. It's not a bad plan, although it works best...

Another slow week, and this time work did have a little something to do with it. That and it being cold and rainy enough that if I couldn't walk out of the subway and almost directly into the theater, I needed to be convinced. The first few day...

First of two weeks full of stuff at work that kept me busy until the weekend. Well, okay, I'll be honest, work didn't keep me terribly late that week other than one day, despite it being "spirit week". That's when the multibillion doll...

I don't know how much this applies as a general statement, but I find that the weeks when a lot of people are making their "once every few months" trips to the theaters, I'm going less frequently. See, while studios are mostly giving e...

After Christmas, just getting to writing up the week of Thanksgiving. I think catching up will pick up speed from here, though. Things started off heavy, with John Stewart's Rosewater, the sort of film whose intentions are the best and whose eve...

The goal for next year: Use a lot more vacation while it is warm out so that I'm not scrambling to use it at the end of the year and kind of enjoying my vacation less because it's so cold. This year, I was trying to save a bit of money and opted...

A relatively not-busy week, but with a lot of love, even if some of it is my love of pancakes. For insurance, Wednesday had me stopping at the Regent Theatre on the way home for the first time in a while. The movie was The Canal, an Irish horro...

Sometimes the page looks like slow and steady but contains double features. Sometimes it's about pacing yourself, sometimes it's about taking advantage of your location. On Monday, for instance, I must have either been working from home or out of...

Plays & pictures, which became a lot more of a theme as I was writing up Birdman. It's been a while since I saw these movies, so those two empty days involved the Giants winning the World Series in large part because of Pablo Sandoval, who is...

The plan during October: Try to see movies that start early and run short so that you can also catch a full night of playoff baseball. ... And sometimes have work run just late enough that you can't get to the ones you planned to see at all. Tha...

Some people claim Columbus Day is a real holiday, but the MBTA didn't even mess with my commute on Canadian Thanksgiving. Actually, the somewhat lower number of people heading to their reflective offices did make the system somewhat quicker, show...

When we last left "This Week in Tickets", Jay had managed to catch a cold just before heading to Maine for various family things. Would the lingering effects of said ailment put a crimp in his moviegoing schedule? No, not really. I di...

Here's what a page out of the movie ticket scrapbook of a normal person looks like, presuming that non-lunatics would be keeping such a thing: It's not exactly that I meant to make My Old Lady the only movie I saw last week - Boyhood was actually...

Last major film festival of the year for me in Austin's Fantastic Fest, and it needs a little talking about on its own. ... but first, here's what I did before and after. And, yeesh, do I take a lousy picture. There were a couple things I want...