Jay's Movie Blog

If you're reading this in the Boston area on Thursday afternoon (the 11th), this movie's got its last first-run screening at the Bra...

Around this time of year, a friend grumbles on Twitter about the rest of the world getting Marvel movies before the United States, and I don...

Is it churlish for me to be upset that we're not getting the new Andy Lau action movie this weekend even though the place that would pla...

This was Day Two of “cramming an extra movie that will likely be squeezed out of theaters by Guardians in around IFFBoston”, and it was goi...

As I mentioned in the other day’s “Next Week in Tickets” post, the weekend of Independent Film Festival Boston is the best time for me to tr...

It figures - the times when BUFF has two screens running, there are tricky choices, but when there’s just the one, it’s something I’ve seen ...

Man, the major studios just don’t want to compete with IFFBoston at all, leaving foreign imports and smaller distributors to pick up the sla...

Like quality independent films? Of course you do! So be glad that Boston’s biggest film festival starts this week, because we’re down a fe...

Oddly enough, I think Boston-area folks would have to go out to West Newton to see these as a double feature; though both slipped into theat...

So, did you all see Your Name this week? It’s still playing this week, so you can see it again. After all, folks are mostly running scare...

Friday at BUFF was a bit more defined by what I didn’t wind up seeing than I’d necessarily like: There was no getting back to Cambridge fro...