It was my great pleasure to host a panel with the young filmmakers selected for WBUR CitySpace’s Ones To Watch Short Film Festival. Here’s a chat about budgets, scheduling, sunlight and assorted other logistical nightmares with the talented Maria Servellón, Shaun Clarke, Sean Temple, Sarah Wisner, Brittany Severance and Herman Servatius. – WBUR CitySpace, 03/19/2025
“The self-described ‘sensory bacchanalia from beyond the mainstream’ takes over the Brattle Theatre for five days of movie mayhem. This year’s BUFF lineup offers another smorgasbord of outré delights, stomach-churning horrors, celebrity guests and celebrations of bad taste. As always, the festival prides itself on pushing the limits of propriety with panache.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 03/17/2025
”It’s the best baseball movie since Bull Durham — or maybe Bad Lieutenant — because it explores this sport’s peculiar ability to bend and distort time. As the shadows on Soldiers Field get longer, an elegiac ache settles in. Eephus is more than a movie about a game, it’s about reaching a time in your life when it feels like it’s getting late earlier and earlier.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 03/13/2025
”A droll marriage comedy disguised as an espionage thriller, making clever and sometimes fiendishly funny use of Blanchett’s glamourpuss opacity. Good heavens, can she wear these clothes. Black Bag plays to Soderbergh’s strengths: it’s a classy, jazzy, clockwork contraption full of intricate plot machinery and great-looking movie stars doing movie star shit.” – North Shore Movies, 03/13/2025
“The commonwealth is ready for its closeup. 192 closeups, to be exact. This sprawling, compulsively watchable collage offers clips from nearly 200 movies and television shows shot in and around the Bay State, serving as a travelogue and a history lesson while showcasing the fine work of area production crews who keep the Massachusetts film industry thriving.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 03/06/2025
”A kooky and digressive sci-fi allegory stew that finds the filmmaker indulging some of his silliest whims while burning through $150 million of Warner Bros. Discovery’s money. I have a soft spot for films like this, when auteurs are allowed to run amok with studio resources. There’s something exhilarating about watching an artist get goofy on such an expensive canvas.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 03/05/2025
Joined my buddy Blake Howard for a free episode of his weekly film review podcast. We did our best not to drool and make wolf-whistle noises while discussing the great Italian sensualist Paolo Sorrentino’s Parthenope, an astoundingly beautiful movie about an astoundingly beaufiful woman and the ultimately alienating disruptions she inspires wherever she goes. – One Heat Minute, 03/02/2025
”Set in a fairytale Manhattan familiar from champagne comedies of the 1930s, it’s a gentle slapstick jumble of missed connections, mistaken assumptions and doors being slammed in people’s faces at fancy hotels. It’s the kind of movie where the private detective wears silly disguises because scenes like these are funnier if someone’s dressed like a rabbi.” – North Shore Movies, 02/28/2025
”We meet more than seventy characters on a long, hot summer night’s journey into day, catching them on the fly as they come together or part ways. It’s a movie that’s all climaxes, a dizzyingly romantic array of clinches and farewells that becomes a hypnotic abstraction of bodies clasping together and ripping themselves asunder. You watch it like fireworks.” – Crooked Marquee, 02/28/2025
“One of my favorite Oscar moments occurred during the 2002 ceremony when Robert Altman and David Lynch both lost the Academy Award for Best Director to Ron Howard for A Beautiful Mind. Lynch later recollected that when Howard’s name was announced, Altman had called him over, pulled him close and said, ‘It’s better this way, David.’” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 02/27/2025
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