Local & Repertory • The Big Lebowski The Coen brothers’ 1998 stoner-noir is Raymond Chandler filtered through dirty bong water,…
Local & Repertory • The Atomic Cafe Discussion follows the screening of this very influential 1982 doc, which uses old…
Local & Repertory • The Big Lebowski The Coen brothers’ 1998 stoner-noir is Raymond Chandler filtered through dirty bong water,…
Local & Repertory The Atomic Cafe Discussion follows the screening of this very influential 1982 doc, which uses old government…
Local & Repertory Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure This 1989 time-travel comedy about two genial teenage ninnies struck an extended…
Local & Repertory American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs Discussion follows the screening of a documentary profile of…
If you’ve been living under a rock, or just returned from vacation in the Internet-free hermit kingdom of North Korea,…
In a filmgoing year that—turning my sourpuss-meter slightly to the right of Robert Horton’s—was less mixed than outright disappointing, Birdman…
Writing a year-end movie wrap-up is a useful way of acknowledging quality, but it’s also a handy method for capturing…
Local & Repertory Home Alone Child actor Macaulay Culkin brutally tortures blameless burglars Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern in this…
No musician wants to forget the words they’re singing onstage, and one of the dirty little secrets to the endless…
Movie stars come from the unlikeliest places. Take the case of one Mark Wahlberg, for example. In youth, he was…
The crucial masterstroke of Into the Woods is that the fairy-tale happy ending comes halfway through the action. What exactly…
The Imitation Game proves that a ripping true story can survive even the Oscar-bait effect. This is a profile of…
Christmas is a time for kitsch, and holiday movies usually reward us with the same sort of mass-produced sentiment, the…
The greedy guy on a life raft who eats all the chocolate bars is surely going to die. That’s just…
Hollywood loves a winner, and the holiday movie season is when the industry most depends on tales of uplift, inspiration,…
Local & Repertory • Bad Santa Working from a story by the Coen brothers, director Terry Zwigoff’s 2003 film is…
Local & Repertory Home Alone Child actor Macaulay Culkin brutally tortures blameless burglars Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern in this…
