What happen’s when you go from having anything, to not being able to afford it? It’s easy to look at Lauren Greenfield’s documentary the The Queen of Versailles and be shocked, even disgusted at the wealth of David and Jackie Siegel. But that’s not what the film is about. Not once did I feel that …
Beauty Is Embarrassing ends with an amazing call to action from subject Wayne White. He sums up what he means by Beauty Is Embarrassing, and it just as equally sums up White’s entire Mantra. Do what you want to do, be who you want to be, no matter what. Wayne White, best known for his …
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry is a powerful documentary that stays with you. Living in a free, democratic society like the United States, seeing or hearing stories like that of Ai Weiwei burn deep inside you. It is hard for us to understand when someone can’t express themselves freely without the worry that at any given …
Creativity is an amazing process, and in the documentary From Nothing, Something, director Tim Cawley sets out to find out how it works for different types of people. What similarities? What are the differences? What results in a fascinating film that celebrates all forms of scientific and artistic creation. The film features interviews with cancer …
Fairhaven is the first feature from writer/director Tom O’Brien, and tells the story of three friends, reuniting in their hometown. Jon (O’Brien), a former high school football star, is aspiring to be a writer, and is leaving his job assisting as a fisherman to pursue his dream. Dave (Chris Messina), is brought back to Fairhaven due …
Headhunters is one of the most edge of your seat, darkly funny, action packed films that I’ve seen in a long time. This Norwegian Action/Crime/Thriller from Morten Tyldum is violent, at time gruesome, but our main protagonist finds himself in so many crappy situations (this’ll make more sense once you see the movie), you can’t help …
Andrew Bird is a unique artist and performer. I went into Fever Year knowing very little about him beyond what I’d seen in the trailer for the film, and I left the theater knowing only a little bit more. This isn’t a bad thing however, because I don’t believe Fever Year set out to be …
Somerville local Rebecca Richman Cohen returns to IFFBoston with her latest film, Code of the West. The documentary follows the legal and emotional drama surrounding the crackdown on medicinal marijuana providers in Montana, the first state to have its legislature vote to repeal its medicinal marijuana law. Over the past year, we’ve heard about crack …
When the trailer for “21 Jump Street” first came out, my initial reaction was an extremely loud groan. To describe the last few buddy-cop comedies that have come out in the past few years as underwhelming would be too forgiving (‘Cop Out,’ and ‘The Other Guys,’ come to mind). So here we are, a few …
The original “Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” admittedly passed right by me. I completely missed the boat on that one. Sure its on Netflix, and I definitely will watch it, but when I heard David Fincher was going to be doing an American adaptation of it, I held off on seeing the original. This will …