The Tens: Best Of Film 2006

Continuing my retroactive Top 10 lists, this one takes us back to 2006, originally published in my “Confessions of a Dangerous Film Student” column in INsite Boston.

All By Myself: Another ‘Survivor’ Lives To Tell

If there’s a theme at the movies for 2013, it’s survival. Sure, lots and lots of movies are about survival — like, almost all of them. The biggest movies at the box office tend to be about the survival of the human race, and plenty of comedies have life-or-death stakes. You could stretch the definition […]

‘Ted’ Talks: A Profane Plush Toy Makes Summer Safe For Adults

(Films discussed in this post: John Carter, Snow White And The Huntsman, Ted, and Savages.) So, here’s the news coming out of summer 2012 — superheroes are a big deal. The Avengers, The Amazing Spider-Man, and The Dark Knight Rises are all hits, with a slew of animated kids’ films (like Pixar’s Brave) also sizzling […]