Jay's Movie Blog

Welp, that post the other day where I said I hated a movie got the second-most views of anything I've posted in six months, so… (I don...

Are there any big, strike-supporting things we can do for Labor Day this weekend? I mean, the writers and actors and such have said not to ...

Oof. I've mentioned the idea that for foreign and indie movies really have to get lucky with their release date to show up at the loca...

Sunday was National Cinema Day, so Boston Common was a little more crowded than usual for a Sunday when I was seeing stuff that was not a bi...

End of the summer, so things are getting a bit odd. It also apparently means that it's National Cinema Day again, with $4 tickets for m...

Although there are days when I look at the shorts before a feature as something tightening a schedule unnecessarily, and others where you go...

Ah, late summer, when the re-releases show up to take some screens, earlier things play out, and the stuff where the studios thought "m...

I could make the standard joke about weaning one's self off Fantasia slowly, maybe by only seeing one Chinese film on a day when you cou...

So… What'd I miss? And what's next? The big opening is The Last Voyage of the Demeter , which expands the story of the ship that c...

I try to go through festivals as I see them, figuring they might fall out the back of my head by the time I get to them, but two films from ...