Top “Movies to Watch” at 2008 IFFBoston

As proud media sponsors of this week’s Independent Film Festival of Boston, we’ve been regularly asked which movies to go see. Either because people don’t want to wade through nearly 100 movie descriptions… or because they value and respect our opinion so very much. Since it totally has to be the latter, we’ve decided to give it up to […]

Lobby List: “Ugly Guy-Beautiful Woman” Movie Mismatches

Last month, the Journal of Family Psychology claimed the best relationships occur between beautiful women and butt-ugly guys. You’ve seen ‘em before, standing in line together at the movies, happily oblivious to their differences. Howard Stern — of course — is held up as the ultimate doofus dude in comparison to his statuesque fiancee Beth Ostrosky. So Allison […]

Disney Announces Animation Lineup Through 2012

Yeah, we know every film source in the world is going to have this story, but we couldn’t resist. I’ve always been a Disney animation aficionado and now, with Pixar’s John Lasseter at the helm, it would appear the sky’s the limit for these consistently remarkable storytellers. Lasseter and company announced an entire lineup of […]

More Movie Sequels and Remakes Than Ever?

Our friends at Burbanked created an ingenious trailer highlighting the redundant, regurgitated material coming to theaters in 2008. More Indiana Jones. More Mummy. A new Get Smart. And it got us thinking about just how many sequels and remakes were released in 2007. So we counted. 32. That’s 32 sequels and remakes in one year — […]

Sundance Film Festival ‘08: Ten More Films to Watch

In November, we offered our first-look Top Ten Sundance Films to Watch. Then we previewed Sundance Opening Night film In Bruges. Well, if you’re heading to the Utah slopes and screens, here are ten more to seek out from the World Cinema and “Park City at Midnight” categories.
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Critics Poll: The Best Movies of 2007

A few days before Christmas, indieWire released an exhaustive list of the best films of 2007 — including the movies, the 106 voters, the point system and assorted commentary. #1 is Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood, a movie that many of us won’t have a chance to see until 2008. Anderson is receiving the greatest accolades of his […]