Jay's Movie Blog

There's independent film, and then there's stuff like In the Land of Merry Misfits . It's hobbyist filmmaking, which is a cool ...

Tuesday night at the festival was mostly dedicated to low-profile stuff that was shot locally. I guess that the night's big draw was St...

... And on my third day at the Boston Film Festival , I finally saw something on film. I know this doesn't bug a lot of other people, b...

The BFF website has probably been corrected by now, but the printed schedule showed this 96 minute movie running at both 8:00pm and 9:30pm ...

I'm not sure what gave the BFF guys the idea to add "The Street Cleaner" to the end of The Metrosexual , other than maybe havi...

I like Kevin Kline a lot, so it feels kind of odd to realize that he has not, in fact, been on the shelf for a few years. The IMDB lists hi...

So... If most of the people coming to see movies at this festival are those with a personal interest in the subject matter, who makes up th...

Saturday turned out to be "inspirational sports night"; I saw Team Everest directly after a featurette on "The World's O...

As this film started, my DVR was not properly recording the Sox-Yankees game. Comcast picked a very bad weekend to flake on me. Mo * * ½ (...

Contemporary "issue" documentaries are an odd thing; the pipeline between filming and any sort of theatrical release is long enoug...

It's a good thing Grace is Gone is a good movie, because if it hadn't been, yesterday would have been a complete disaster. I don...

I've got a weird sort of relationship with the Boston Film Festival . It's the first one I ever attended, back in 2001, and that wa...

I didn't think I'd have time to add War to this entry before the Boston Film Festival starts, but it turns out I did have a bit to...

I'm proud of this review, not because it's close to the best I've ever written, but because I got all the way through without me...

Not much to say about this one, other than that it's part of the swoon at the end of summer. Kind of matches the dog days of August, I ...

I don't think Rescue Dawn is playing much anywhere, which is a bummer. I caught it on the last day it was in Arlington, and almost mis...

Some people really enjoy when they're the only ones in the theater, and I can dig that, especially for a matinee where you might have co...

Not much to say about this one - it's good, but not great, and I think it's weird that so many reviews seem to be treating it like s...