Jay's Movie Blog

It is oddly satisfying that Adam Wingard and Joe Swanberg, both folks from overlapping indie waves fifteen or twenty years ago, both have new movies in local theaters this weekend.

Another weird late-August week.

Oof, I should not be so far behind writing Fantasia reviews that I've got nothing to link to about something opening here.

With the big July releases finally starting to lose a little steam, it's starting to look like a proper August at the movies, with summer-y looking things that the studios didn't feel confident opening on big weekends, things that could bridge the summer…

I've got to admit, I thought I'd be well past the point in posting my reviews from Fantasia where I talked about how I saw something else because this was already listed as a coming attraction at the Coolidge so I knew I'd be able to see it and could thus…

Having arrived back home with no particular difficulty, I am actually kind of relieved that studios are still giving The Odyssey and Spider-Man a bit of space, so I can watch some suddenly-good baseball and write movie reviews.

Back to the "de Sève in the afternoon, Hall in the evening" grind (for one of the more pleasant definitions of "grind")!

Back home this week, Brattle back open, and the blockbuster one-two meaning Fantasia hasn't go tme too enormously far behind!

Another day, another short film package at the Museum seemingly scheduled with the intent of overlapping everything else in the schedule.

Still out of town, but nobody's messing with The Odyssey.

Pardon if today seems a little more scattered than usual; I left the apartment without my little five-inch square notebook and so wasn't making notes through most of the day, and that's not great when the first couple films of the day are Japanese shorts…

I started the day by misreading the time for Trauma or, Monsters All as 1:45pm rather than 1:15pm, which means when I got there at 1:30pm, the film was just starting because it had a nice long intro.

I'm out of town so this is obviously my second priority, but the studios have fortunately made it pretty easy on me!

Great to be back in Montreal, and not just because it is expected to be stupidly hot in Boston with unexpected apocalyptic air quality because of wildfires in Manitoba.

Always the way of it - really scraping to find something to go to some days, then more than you can watch are on the schedule, but also, a thing theaters have been showing previews for is not coming out unless you want to spend twice as much time traveling

Man, 3.1/10 on IDMB for this?

So, is there anything coming out next weekend where the politics might be dodgy, especially considering where it comes from?

Happy Fourth, if you're feeling it this year.

It's kind of interesting to see 7 Dogs hit American theaters a week after Unidentified; they've got very little in common aside from having "Saudi Arabia" as the first country listed under "Country of Origin" on IMDB, and sort of represent the two poles of

There's a big-studio franchise movie clocking in at under two hours this weekend.

I feel like I say some variation on this every time I see something released by Sony Pictures Classics these days, but it's odd that I'm heading out to Arlington to see this one, rather than it playing in Kendall Square or at the Coolidge.

I occasionally joke about how it's weird that the folks who saw the first Toy Story and Shrek movies in theaters could conceivably be bringing their grandchildren to the the new ones, but also consider the number of characters whose distinct voices have b…

Last week, barely anything to see.

Not sure whether this attempt to get back to doing TWIT as warm-up for Fantasia is working or not - my big problem is getting started, which probably won't be as much of a problem in Montreal, but which also means a lazy morning could totally derail me.

Hey, could the next huge hit from some 20-something YouTuber be a romantic comedy or a heist movie or something featuring a great young martial artist?