Jay's Movie Blog

Exiled was easily the best of the festival, even with The Signal playing. I was glad to see it used as the week's Eye Opener because ...

Murder Party is another movie that played Fantasia after I'd returned to Cambridge, although I think it may actually have run the last ...

Brattle Theater creative director Ned Hinkle chose Mercy for the Sunday Eye-Opener program that the Brattle and Chlotrudis Society co-pres...

I "missed" this one at Fantasia - it wasn't one I was really super-excited to see anyway, but I would probably have gone if th...

I love the BFFF (not to be confused with the BFF). Sure, it causes a pronounced lack of sleep when it conflicts with a Red Sox playoff ser...

I wore myself out a little, trying to get to see this one. It was my birthday and I was going to do something fun, so I tried to get to the...

I wonder how much I would have liked Lust, Caution if it had gotten the Kill Bill treatment - split its two halves into two separate films...

Being generally busy with the BFF got in the way of seeing Dragon Wars during its first couple of weeks in release, which most people would...

There... Done with the Boston Film Festival's features - I'll probably write a little something up about the shorter films, since t...

So, remember how I described The Poet as the Festival's Closing Night film? Well, it was billed as such, but the festival went on for ...

Closing night of the Boston Film Festival offered me a choice between director Frank Whaley and star Freddie Prinze Junior introducing New ...

­This is one I just barely got to see; In the Land of Merry Misfits started late and had a short attached, so it got out at 9:37 when Stren...

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...