Category: Film
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Well, that’s a wrap on the 25th annual Boston Underground Film Festival. This year was packed with weird, wild, and wonderful shorts and a diverse offering spanning genres and decades. From the Cage-rage Australian coasts to battles across time, the programmers of BUFF 25 packed a punch with this year’s festival. Thematically on point and…
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Welcome back, fellow treasure hunters! Apologies for my absence last week. Life and work became quite hectic, and I needed some time to regroup mentally. But we’re Looney Tunes: Back In Action! I don’t have any new or interesting UFO-related news but I have started reading James Lacatski’s Skinwalkers at the Pentagon, so I’ll report…
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“What do you fear most in the world?” Windom Earle demands of Garland Briggs. His response, “The possibility that love is not enough” indicates a major theme of Lynch’s. From Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, and Lost Highway, to Mulholland Drive, Inland Empire, and The Return, Lynch wrestles with a central question: between the darker…
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When you see a new movie on the way out from Anouk Whissell and Yoann-Karl Whissell, you have to get excited. Those names may look unfamiliar to some, but the directors make up two-thirds of directing trio RKSS and have been responsible for heavy genre hitters like Turbo Kid and Summer of 84. Seeing the…
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There are two types of people in this world: those who love the wry, witty humor of Christopher Guest and those who just don’t get it. Mockumentaries like Waiting for Guffman, Spinal Tap, and Best in Show have been lauded for their sardonic and dry humor. If you’re a fan of any of those three…
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Welcome back, fellow treasure hunters! We have a great episode of Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch this week, but before we get there, we have some interesting Ufology news to go over. A new/ish organization called Skywatcher has been making its rounds on UfoTwitter but not for good reasons. Their goal was, seemingly, to bring…
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Liam Le Guillou is not the type of person you picture walking into the homes of Hoodoo Priests in New Orleans and entering the caves of South American devil worshipers. If anything, the documentary director looks like the kind of guy you’d see on a Sunday afternoon visit to the hardware store or Target run.…
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The Boston Underground Film Festival got underway on Wednesday night with a duo of big-screen beachside films that manage to evoke every manner of summer except the chilled vibes. Tensions ran high in the packed Brattle auditorium for The Surfer, which was a blast to watch with a crowd. The Surfer If you’re a fan…
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For however long I’ve been going to The Boston Underground Film Festival, The Dunwich Horrors block has always been an extremely creative mix of bold concepts and effects-rich horror. The BUFF 25 lineup for the shorts block this year is no different, with ideas that touch upon gender roles, social injustices, war, and politics, all…
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You just never know what to expect from films you see at film festivals. That may seem like a pretty obvious statement, but for those who’ve never attended a film festival, let me assure you it can often be a Cracker Jack surprise that can go either way. As I settled into enigmatic indie Head…