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Next Week in Tickets: 3 February 2012 – 9 February 2012

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:03:18 +0000

It’s a good thing I have an unexpected day off on Friday, because a deluge will start in earnest on the 10th (at least, for me). In the meantime, still a fair amount to see:Okay, explain to me why Chronicle – a movie designed to look like low-resolution video – is playing at the proudly 35mm Somerville Theatre and old-school ghost story The Woman in Black isn’t, more or less forcing me to see it

Spanish-Language: Nostalgia for the Light and Miss Bala

admin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:07:06 +0000

Weak attempt at a theme post, seeing as these two movies really have very little to do with each other than both being in Spanish. I did see them on consecutive nights, though, so that’s kind of a theme. But, as far as Latin American countries go, the current situations in Nostalgia’s Chile and Miss Bala’s Mexico are strikingly different: Chile appears to now be quite stable and relatively

Sundance USA Boston 2012: Celeste and Jesse Forever

admin — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:04:20 +0000

Last year, I don’t think I heard much (if anything) about My Idiot Brother before catching it at Sundance USA, and it wound up being a fairly pleasant surprise. I may have oversold it a little, but it was a legitimately charming comedy with a nice cast that should have made a little more noise when it was released in August as Our Idiot Brother.This year, it almost seemed as if the programmers

This Week In Tickets: 23 January 2012 to 29 January 2012

admin — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:04:01 +0000

I swear, tickets at the Coolidge keep getting bigger. I think they know about this blog and are jockeying for real estate on the screen.OK, that’s because I pre-ordered a ticket for Celeste and Jesse Forever and thus printed it out at home. Meanwhile, I half-suspect that the Brattle just gives out ticket stubs because it would feel weird to go to a movie and not have your ticket ripped.Well,

Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 27 January 2012 – 2 February 2012

admin — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:04:31 +0000

Huh, I haven’t done an Oscar Nominations Reaction Entry in six years. I guess I’ve been better at handling things I can’t control.The nominations have led to a little stuff popping back up at theaters – The Descendants and Hugo return to Fenway. A few other things that received nominations show up in town for the first time: Albert Nobbs, which features Glenn Close as the title character, a

Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 27 January 2012 – 2 February 2012

admin — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:04:31 +0000

Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 27 January 2012 – 2 February 2012

admin — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:04:31 +0000

Pariah

admin — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:03:52 +0000

This was going to be paired with something else: At first, Red Tails for both having predominately-black casts or A Dangerous Method, which I saw on the same night. But I really said all I had for them in the TWIT entry(*). Then I figured a "first love" pairing with Young Goethe in Love, but my work schedule made that one tough to catch during its one-week booking (and its not going to happen

New from China: The Viral Factor and The Flowers of War

admin — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:02:29 +0000

Hey, it’s been a while since we’ve seen China Lion open a film in Boston – Love in Space and My Kingdom back in September. Nobody manned up to get 3D Sex & Zen Extreme Ecstacy, and Magic to Win only played a few cities (5 screens instead of the usual 20-ish). It looks like we’re going to miss All’s Well Ends Well 2012, which is a shame. I don’t know that it looks like a particularly good movie