It’s rare to see a film with a single star. Its difficult enough to tell a story that engages a whole audience, especially as the the attention span of audiences become shorter and shorter. ‘Larry (the actor)’ is brave in that you spend the entire 35 minute run time with Larry, an actor with a …
There’s a lot of talk about going green these days. On the news, on the world stage, figures like Al Gore, rattling the cage, calling for a change in old ways. ‘The Greening of Southie,’ tells the story of a family owned developer looking to build Boston’s first completely green building, from the foundation up.
“When did you decide you didn’t want to be with me forever?” This line stood out for me during the screening of ‘Natural Causes,’ it’s a question that has been asked a million times, in a million relationships. It was these sort of moments that made this film stand out. Directed by Alex Cannon, Paul …
American Ninja 2: The Confrontation is 100% pure uncut 80’s awesome, plain and simple. You can just feel it right from the opening sequence of the movie, when we see several guys screaming along a windy road on their motorcycles—not just any motorcycles mind you—Ninjas! That sets the tone right then and there, because from …
Everybody needs someone to love them, even Muggles. Maybe that should be the subtitle of Josh Koury’s documentary, ‘We are Wizards.’ The film follows those using the Harry Potter series as a jumping off point for a variety of creative endeavors.
Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games or MMORPG have been around for a quite a few years, with an estimated user based at $50 million, many see this as the future of gaming.
The Independent Film Festival of Boston kicked off with a bang this evening with the East Coast premiere of Brad Anderson’s ‘Transsiberian,’ a thriller set during a journey between China and Moscow.
What better film to act as the opening night offering for the IFFB than ‘Transsiberian?’ Apart from the local ties of the director, (Brad Anderson lived for a while in Somerville and shot his ‘Next Stop Wonderland,’ and ‘Session 9,’ in the area,) several of the film’s producers are also Boston residents. ‘Transsiberian,’ tells the …
‘Them’ (or ‘Ils,’ for you foreign film purists) does very little to set up its horror story, a fact that is backed up by the 77-minute run time, but that’s what makes this film work. Much like the tormented main characters, Clementine and Lucas, we the audience are just thrown into the plot and the …
Today I’d like to take a look at the recently released suspense/thriller, “Them” (originally titled Ils in France) by director David Moreau and Xavier Palud.