Features
Thursday, November 17 2011
The Crows Come Home to Roost: The Death of Lisa Kimmel Fisher
Six Feet Under concludes its third season with a bold suite of emotionally devastating episodes that go straight for the jugular, nearly drowning the Fishers -- and the viewers -- under a tidal wave of fear, guilt and despair.
Thursday, May 28 2009
Independent Film Festival of Boston 2009
A perfect occasion to get drunk on film, to fall in love with the movies, to reassert the primacy of film as the last central universal art form.
Friday, May 16 2008
Independent Film Festival of Boston 2008
The Independent Film Festival of Boston brought a slew of new features, documentaries, and shorts to Beantown for the sixth year. PopMatters has all the highlights (and lowlights) from films that tackled everything from vanishing languages to fashion design.
Friday, June 1 2007
Non-sequiturs
These films share connecting tendrils of a strident defiance of convention, of this total faith in the surface non-sequitur; a seeming senselessness that really only masks the deeper connections and traditions flowing beneath their surfaces.
Friday, June 1 2007
Closing Night
An audience decked out in full Boston Red Sox gear waits, in vain, for the appearance of star slugger, David Ortiz -- the film, it seems, was incidental. Meanwhile, Scott Caan, son of the enigmatic James Caan, gives a possible starmaking performance as a wiseguy wannabe.
Reviews
Friday, December 9 2011
'Winnie the Pooh's Virtue is how Effortlessly It Spins Charm and Humor out of Its Spare Story
Disney's return to the Hundred Acre Wood is a gentle, loving and refreshingly old-fashioned delight.
Monday, November 21 2011
'Monte Carlo': Is a Slam Dunk of Tweener Wish Fulfillment
Monte Carlo is a bright, innocuous bit of cinematic fluff that indulges in all the well worn, wish fulfillment tropes of the "mistaken for a rich girl/princess" genre.
Tuesday, August 9 2011
'Sucker Punch': Sound and Fury Signifying Nothing -- a Furious Sounding Nothing
Though visually striking and stylistically ambitious, this bombastic, juvenile genre mashup is a mostly discordant, occasionally incoherent, but always compulsively watchable, mess. Just check your brain at the door...
Friday, July 29 2011
'13 Assassins': A Slow Burn with a Huge Payoff
Japanese provocateur Takashi Miike takes on the samurai genre, with spectacular (and very bloody) results.
Thursday, July 7 2011
'Red Riding Hood:' Overheated and Half-Baked
Red Riding Hood doesn’t have the teeth to bite into the thrumming subterranean eroticism lurking just beneath its overripe surface; but neither does it have the self-awareness (or self-confidence) to cross over the line into full blown kitsch.
Blogs
Friday, April 30 2010
Let's Hear It for American Indies!
Best of the fest! Back to back screenings late into Saturday night restores this reviewer's faith in American indies and reaffirms the brilliance of Turkish-German director Fatih Akin at the Eighth Annual Independent Film Festival of Boston.
Wednesday, April 28 2010
Alarmist Documentaries About Money, Power and the Evaporation of Privacy. Fun!
In a true sign of the times, alarmist films about our precarious times screen at the Independent Film Festival of Boston. Meaney checks out Casino Jack and the United States of Money and Erasing David.
Monday, April 26 2010
Independent Film Festival of Boston: The Extra Man / Harmony and Me
The Independent Film Festival of Boston is running April 21-28 at various locations throughout the greater Boston area.
