The good news is, my wrap-up of this year’s Independent Film Festival Boston is now online for your reading pleasure at Northshore Magazine. The bad news is, that means Independent Film Festival Boston is over, and you’re going to have to wait another 350 something days before we get to fest again. (And by “we” I mean … Continue reading
Each year (at least, each year since 2012) I cover Independent Film Festival Boston, I usually do a bit of promotion on this site – previews, lineups, general pleas to the audience to go buy some tickets to the great film festival of my hometown. This year I decided to do all of that over … Continue reading
There’s very little about IFFBoston’s 2017 that I am not excited about. I’m always excited for IFFBoston, of course, for reasons I’ve elaborated on very recently on the pages of this very blog (and which I’ve probably talked about extensively in the deep past), so I’ll spare you my usual spiel on the subject. In 2017, I’m … Continue reading
Every year for the last five years, springtime has provoked a transformation of sorts in me, or maybe more accurately provoked my unabashed and kinda obnoxious excitement. If you’ve been keeping up, you can probably guess why: Spring in Boston means Independent Film Festival Boston, which means that for a week or so, Andy gets … Continue reading
Late April to early May is the time of year when I tend to fall into a brief but intense depressive state with little warning and seemingly without provocation. But if you know me, and you know how I spend my time, you know that my short annual bouts of melancholy and gloom coincide with the … Continue reading
I first covered Independent Film Festival Boston back in 2012, when I was but an inexperienced festival-going critic (and an inexperienced critic in general). I was still writing for my man Marc’s blog, GoSeeTalk, at that time, before I started writing for outlets like Screen Rant and getting addicted to the hustle. Things were different … Continue reading
It’s exactly three weeks until 2012’s Boston Independent Film Festival kicks off, and to that end the slate of films to be shown at the fest has been released. There’s a great amount of range here, from horror/exploitation flicks like V/H/S and Headhunters to new Todd Solondz as well as the latest from Bobcat Goldthwait, God Bless America; that’s … Continue reading
Andy likes an Alex Ross Perry movie, and it’s all thanks to Independent Film Festival Boston! (Well: Also, it’s thanks to Alex Ross Perry.) Continue reading
Well: It’s all done. It’s over. That’s all, folks, ’til next year, and so on and so forth, et cetera. Independent Film Festival Boston 2017 is in the books, and while yes, the event was terrific, I must now endure the post-fest doldrums until about June or so (as one whole month is about the … Continue reading
A short and sweet update on the status of Independent Film Festival Boston: They’ve got their full schedule up (and have had it up for over a week; I’ve just been neglectful, sorry, get off my back), and I strongly recommend that you train your eye-holes on it if you are local to the Boston … Continue reading
If you have been tuning into this space for the last week and wondering why I have posted exactly zero new updates, it’s because I’ve been gallivanting around Bermuda since the 12th. But I’m back in Boston, and with eight days to spare before Independent Film Festival Boston’s 2016 rumpus, I’d say it’s about time … Continue reading
“And just like that, the 2015 Independent Film Festival Boston came to a close, not with a whimper, but with a big screen sick-lit adaptation made for the Sundance set. A lot more than that took place before IFFBoston’s closing night blowout, of course, but ending on Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s Me and Earl and the Dying … Continue reading
“There may be no more fitting way to kick off a celebration of storytellers than with a portrait of a storyteller, so combining Independent Film Festival Boston with The End of the Tour feels simply felicitous. This is the second time a James Ponsoldt film has commenced festivities at New England’s largest film festival; he … Continue reading
While the Independent Film Festival Boston doesn’t end until this Wednesday, my time out at the Somerville and Brattle theaters has run out– but I’ve got a handful of reviews up over at Go See Talk and two more in the tank that I’ll post in the next couple of days! I had a blast … Continue reading
Welp, A24 isn’t really doing much to promote Augustine Frizzell’s excellent Never Goin’ Back, so I guess it’s up to me, a critic, to champion this gross, tender, raunchy, outrageous, sweet-hearted, and absolutely hilarious film. (It’s one of my favorites of the year. And one of the best I saw at this year’s Independent Film Festival … Continue reading
Revisiting my audio recording of the interview I conducted with Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal at this year’s Independent Film Festival Boston, I finally figured out what I would have really liked to have said about the film at the time but didn’t: Racism’s really hard to talk about, even couched in a piece of art like Blindspotting. It’s … Continue reading
Last April (the last day of last April, in fact), I sat down with Lauren Greenfield, documentarian, to talk about her new movie, Generation Wealth, which ran at this year’s run of Independent Film Festival Boston. If you’ve seen her previous film, The Queen of Versailles, you have a decent idea of what Generation Wealth is about; it’s not … Continue reading
For clarity’s sake, all of the things I say about Brett Haley in the intro to my review of his latest, Hearts Beat Loud, is absolutely true: I’ve never spoken to him one on one, but I have seen him speak, twice, two years in a row, at Independent Film Festival Boston, where in both appearances he … Continue reading
I missed Columbus at this year’s Independent Film Festival Boston, so of course I was thrilled to catch up with it for its theatrical release. I was even more thrilled to find that it’s lovely, poetic, and just plain old great. At a glance, I expected the film to follow along expected plot lines, but I … Continue reading
I took a trip to Spain back in May, during Independent Film Festival Boston, which is just a cutesy-poo way of saying that I saw The Trip to Spain, Michael Winterbottom’s third entry in his The Trip series, orchestrated with and starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon. As with the other Trip movies, I liked this one. But it … Continue reading
A Constant Visual Feast 