Friday, August 29, 2025

Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 29 August 2025 - 4 September 2024

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Labor Day weekend, where you wonder if the big movies coming out are the studios sensing an opportunity or their being kind of disasters. L...
Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Asian Blockbusters: War 2 and Dead to Rights

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Anyone know a good, English-friendly site for Indian box office? It would probably be a tricky sort of thing, since India has at least thre...
Friday, August 22, 2025

Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 22 August 2025 - 28 August 2024

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There are four Chinese movies at a couple local theaters this weekend, including one release that kind of fascinates me. That would be Ne Z...
Friday, August 15, 2025

Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 15 August 2025 - 22 August 2024

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Huh, I thought AMC and Apple got along, but now that I think about it, has any big Apple movie played the big 'plexes? I bring this up ...
Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Asian Imports: My Daughter Is a Zombie and The Lychee Road

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Back from Montreal, back on this nonsense: Both are apparently leaving Boston after Thursday (and those are early/late shows), though Th...
Saturday, August 09, 2025

Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 8 August 2025 - 14 August 2024

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August is the "sure, why not?" section of the summer movie season. For instance, how do you do Freakier Friday without basically...
Monday, August 04, 2025

Fantasia 2025.09: Redux Redux, The Virgin of the Quarry Lake, Anna Kiri, and Transcending Dimensions

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This is the last post before flying back south, not quite reaching halfway on the blog during the event, and I don't know how much more ...
Saturday, August 02, 2025

Fantasia 2025.08: "Methuselah", A Grand Mockery, Every Heavy Thing, The House with Laughing Windows, "Things That Go Bump in the East", and I Fell in Love with a Z-Grade Director in Brooklyn

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This day started early: 3:30am, to be precise, with the alarm right in the room, rather than just the hallway. I don't know what it...