We got some fluff, we got some horror, we got some screwball comedy, we got some psychosexual drama…we really got it all! Continue reading
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Films by Women: Five* Movies to Watch from April (2019)
In which we take a trip to the unicorn store before hiking up a rock to live the high life and also there’s a dead body. Continue reading
“Films By Women: Four Movies To Watch From December”
It’s the last “Films By Women” piece of 2018! I bet you’re pretty bummed. But it’s okay; there’ll be other lists soon. Like, “in a month” soon. We’re already getting our 2019 watching underway over here in Andy Crump land. (There is no “we.” I am using the royal “we.” It’s my blog! I … Continue reading
“Films by Women: Five Movies to Watch in July”
July has been a wasteland of a month for films by women. Not that there aren’t films by women out there in theaters for you to watch, or at home, and it’s not that those movies are bad or anything; it’s just that compared to other months, finding those movies has proven a Herculean task, and that’s … Continue reading
Review Round-Up: Certain Strange Women Doctors, Lobsters, & Camerapersons By The Sea
I watch a lot of movies, and I don’t write about all of them. This is especially true of the annual year-end rush to cram in as much movie watching goodness as possible before voting deadlines for the Boston Online Film Critics Association (BOFCA) and the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS). Consider these capsules my … Continue reading
“‘A Rainy Day In New York’: Timothée Chalamet Stumbles In The Worst Woody Allen Feature In Years”Timot
For Christmas, all I want is for movies to stop making Timothée Chalamet happen. Continue reading
“2020 Oscar Preview: Who Will Win and Who Should Win”
Oscar talk! Oscar talk here! Come get today’s fresh Oscar talk, sirs and ladies! Continue reading
“Florence Pugh’s Year of Performing Perfectly”
Three movies, three Florence Pugh roles, three stellar Pugh-formances, one piece to recap all of them for you and also find the ways that they intersect. Continue reading
Andy’s Best Things, 2019 Edition
The best movies, the best albums, the best horror, and the best catty side-swipes at whatever’s annoying me at the time of this writing. Happy New Year! Continue reading
Review: The Dead Don’t Die, 2019, dir. Jim Jarmusch
A movie about zombies by one of the coolest filmmakers out there, starring a ton of people I like, should be a slam dunk, but then…what if it isn’t? Continue reading
“In ‘The Wolf of Snow Hollow,’ Being a Good Guy Is a Beast of a Job”
It’s hard being a good cop in America’s werewolf country, and I guess we can just leave that chad hanging there and walk away. Continue reading
“You Won’t Forget ‘The Wretched'”
Not a Magic: The Gathering reference or a Nine Inch Nails reference, and mercifully not even a reference to 1980s kids-versus-the-monsters movies. Continue reading
“Best of Criterion’s New Releases, August 2019”
And now, Andy gets to talk a little bit about Jane Campion. But only a little bit, because if he talks too much, you won’t click the link. Continue reading
Review: Don’t Call Me Son, 2016, dir. Anna Muylaert
In Anna Muylaert’s Don’t Call Me Son, a young man, Pierre, learns that his mother isn’t really his mother, and that he was snatched from his birth family as a baby; this leads to his new family becoming reintroduced to him after his abduction, which means they learn that their long-lost son likes to wear women’s … Continue reading
Review: Private Property, 1960, dir. Leslie Stevens
To know the work of Warren Oates is to love Warren Oates. Odds are you probably do know Oates’ work, too, even if you don’t realize it. Oates nailed down roughly 50 roles over the course of his too-short career, which spanned from 1959 to 1982; he kept busy, putting a particular emphasis on Westerns … Continue reading
My Most Anticipated Films For IFFBoston ’16
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
Review: Hello, My Name is Doris, 2016, dir. Michael Showalter
There are two main reasons to seek out Michael Showalter’s Hello, My Name is Doris: Sally Field and Max Greenfield, who share a warm and genuinely affectionate chemistry with one another as Showalter’s unexpected will they/won’t they romantic leads. The third reason to see the film is Showalter himself, who brings a surprisingly earnest directorial sensibility to what could easily … Continue reading
Review: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, 2016, dir. Glenn Ficarra & John Requa
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot has a Tina Fey problem, but then again, Tina Fey’s movie career has a Tina Fey problem. How is it this hard to figure out how best to transition Fey’s multi-pronged TV persona into multiplex success? Maybe it’s worth looking at Fey’s big-screen choices before we look at her as an actress: movies like Date Night … Continue reading
Meryl’s Out of Africa
Did you think the world let Meryl Streep too easily off the hook for describing herself as “a humanist” rather than a feminist? Are you of the opinion that she should have gotten more, not less, flak for participating in Suffragette‘s “I’d rather be a rebel than a slave” photo shoot? If you answer yes to … Continue reading
Review: Fant4stic, 2015, dir. Josh Trank
“If at first you don’t succeed, try and try again.” When W.E. Hickson popularized this crusty old Thomas Palmer aphorism back in the 1800’s, he couldn’t have known that one day, one of America’s most high profile movie studios would take the phrase to heart with not one, not two, but three attempts at building a franchise … Continue reading
A Constant Visual Feast 