Netflix Streaming Pick of the Week: Downfall

Netflix Streaming Pick of the Week is a recurring weekly feature that’ll have our pick of the week for instant streaming, just in time for the weekend!  We’ve all seen the viral Hitler parody videos where he finds out that Apple didn’t release the latest iPhone, or a reaction to some other recent relevant popculture/life …

Video of the Week: Henry Thomas E.T. Audition

One of my favorite films of all time is Steven Spielberg’s ‘E.T.’ The film represents everything that was amazing with the Amblin films of the 80s. Great stories, great child actors, and amazing adventures. In the video below, we see Henry Thomas become emotional at the thought of a Government man taking E.T. away from …

The Tobolowsky Files — Live in Boston

This upcoming Monday, IFFBoston will be presenting ‘The Toblowsky Files,’ an awesome podcast (available here on iTunes) live at the Coolidge Corner Theater in Boston. The show features character actor Stephen Tobolowsky and is hosted by David Chen of Slashfilm.com. I’ll always remember Tobolowsky from ‘Sneakers,’ one of my favorites growing up. He’s been in …

Ben’s 2012 Oscar Predictions

Editors Note: Ben has compiled a list of his Oscar predictions, both who he thinks will be nominated, and who will ultimately win. The announcements will be next Tuesday, January 24th. Check out Ben’s list, where do you think he’s right, where do you think he’s completely wrong?     BEST PICTURE The Artist The …

Ben’s Top 10 of 2011

This was hard because this year really sucked ass but here goes in no order: Source Code – 3 stars Really cool movie and the followup to Moon by Duncan Jones. He’s got some talent, and Jake Gyllenhaal proves once again that he can actually act! Everything was intense up until the end, which cost it the 4th …