Jay's Movie Blog

This is a day late, because I was wiped out last night. And yet, my hits for Friday were pretty good. Who was looking for this and kept co...

I admit to being kind of curious about this movie from the start, especially since when I saw Seediq Bale last week, there were a lot more ...

Fastest I've done one of these in months, if not longer. You can do that when you're only really carving time for Sunrise out of w...

I got kind of lucky with this one; Sunrise was originally planned to be April's "Wordless Wednesday" screening at the Brattle...

Long weekend coming up, and it looks like it's not going to rain! Which is good, because I've got baseball I want to see and heavy ...

I honestly thought I was only going to be skipping this for one week, but once you've slipped that second time, it's hard not to say...

Just in case anybody from Magnolia is reading this and wants to get on me, eFilmCritic, or Independent Film Festival Boston - I'm not br...

If nothing else, Brit Marling and her collaborators are good at manipulating expectations. I don't completely believe that anybody who r...

I was half-tempted to do a "indigenous people versus their conquerors" double feature, both in terms of what I saw and what I revi...

So, I'm sitting down in the front row of the theater, writing something or other while getting ready to watch Diamonds Are Forever on F...

Remember what I said about writing being habit? Here's another example. I used to regularly write up the fall schedules based on the u...

So, I didn't do this last week as I went head-down on IFFBoston stuff, and neither heard complaints not saw a really noticeable downtick...

And the last night, as usual, comes at the Coolidge Corner Theatre, in the big room. We all know what that means - duck! The IFFBoston staf...