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One of the useful things about the way IFFBoston ran this festival online is that, when either my second vaccine shot on Friday (14 May 2021) or just being out and about all had me pretty wiped out at the end of the day, I could basically just push t...

Took my mask off in a movie theater the other day, which felt nice, although it still feels sort of impolite to do so until the lights are down. The staff still has to, and it would be rude to lord it over them, you know? Landmark Theatres Kendall...

Memorial Day weekend is looking like the first big movie weekend in 15 months, with capacities expanding, the Capitol reopening with two new blockbusters and, unless I miss something, just one new virtual offering. It's kind of a weird in-between si...

Whoa - the Coolidge is putting in-person shows on their front page of their website and the virtual room off to the side. Makes sense, but, wow, I've gotten so used to the other lineup over the past year that this is going to take some re-acclimatiz...

As much as I kind of knew that the guy who I hear opening every all-employee "Town Hall" call at work was going to show up in this movie, it's still awfully dispiriting when your employer's parent company appears prominently in a movie abou...

I think America was roughly fifteen minutes into the pandemic before people started talking about not wanting to see masks, isolation, distancing, etc. reflected in entertainment, either as a way to pin a date down or as a metaphor, and it's been kin...

Let's mostly go with release date rather than watch date , with this getting split up because I was doing all the Sunday crosswords and making pizza, so I got to I Was a Simple Man relatively late in the evening, too late to be up for a second movie...

Neither of these movies are really bad at all, although I must admit that my thoughts after each were: * Dang, Jessica Barden is not an actual teenager? She sure seems just that young. * Was We're All Going to the World's Fair shot around Yarmouth...

Is it just me, or is anyone else watching Brian Tamm's intro to these movies, especially the ones labeled "Generic Somerville" or "Generic Brattle", and seeing if they map to where they think the films in question would play durin...

Thursday was opening night of Independent Film Festival Boston 2021, and since we couldn't be there in person, here's a little bit of IFFBoston Opening Night goodness: We all miss this, and I hope to see a full set by Jon Bernhardt before the open...

Start the week by getting your IFFBoston tickets, end it by getting your Coolidge tickets. And get vaccinated! No excuses! By the time this posts, IFFBoston will have tickets for their virtual festival on sale for everyone, notably including openi...

Yesterday was a pretty good day for news about seeing movies in this area, vaccines are available to anyone who wants it... Things are looking up to the point where I might start moving the theatrical bookings back to the top of this post soon. Not...

Even in the pre-Covid times, the Belmont World Film spring series could be an easy one to overlook - you've got to take the 73 bus to get to a theater that always feels like it might be about to shut down (except when a show is someplace else), it ov...

It's kind of a slow week in theaters both real and virtual - the delayed "what gets a second look for the Oscars" times "some folks are vaccinated but not enough" makes for a real new-release lull - so it's a good time to announc...