#Boston Movie

[o-the-mts]

Boston Movie Festival: Boondock Saints (1999)

Welcome to my first monthly “film festival” where I watch a bunch of movies on a theme.  This month, in honor of Patriots Day weekend I will be watching a bunch of Boston movies, also known as “Film No R.”  There are so many movies set/filmed in my hometown that I made a list on Letterboxd.  I probably will never watch all of them, but this weekend I’m going to check of some of the more prominent…

[inkskinned]

this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.

good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.

sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.

so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.

one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.

[nottodayjustin]

December 25th 2023 best hockey tweet(s) of the day🎄

Christmas was all about the elevator, baby!

[carlyraejepsans]

sometimes the funny guy armor doesn't work

[oatmealdoodles]

Art camp day 2/5:

Some ducks and a goofy aah cat sketches

probably my favorite spread from this whole week, just playing around with mediums and painted with Ink for the first time! Everyone meet Kevin, he’s a silly goofy guy ❤️

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[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

[hellyeahgeorgekennedy]

George Kennedy and Henry Fonda in The Boston Strangler (1968)

[horrororman]

🎃 Notable films that were released on October 16th...

The Boston Strangler (1968).

Strange Behavior (1981)(NYC, NY).

X-Ray (1981)(Mexico).

Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II (1987).

Slumber Party Massacre II (1987).

Candyman (1992)(US).

Bride of Chucky (1998).

Crimson Peak (2015)(US).

Tales of Halloween (2015)(US).

#horror

[timmurleyart]

Nice sweet story here with Ryan and fan- and to my big surprise and honor my 8x8’ mural I made for MGH can be seen in the background. 🟥🟨🖼️

[jimmyspades]

"And so here we are. Family, doctors, lawyers, hospitals, insurance men. Each of us concerned only for ourselves. Each of us pursuing our own goals. The only one missing is the patient. The only one without a voice is the patient."

JAMES SPADER as Dr. Werner Ernst in CRITICAL CARE (1997), dir. Sidney Lumet

[o-the-mts]

Noirvember Movie Review: Mystery Street (1950)

Title: Mystery Street Release Date: July 28, 1950 Director: John Sturges Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Main Cast: Ricardo Montalbán as Lieutenant Peter Morales Sally Forrest as Grace Shanway Bruce Bennett as Dr. McAdoo Elsa Lanchester as Mrs. Smerrling Marshall Thompson as Henry Shanway Jan Sterling as Vivian Heldon Edmon Ryan as James Joshua Harkley Betsy Blair as Jackie Elcott Wally…

[pedroam-bang]

Knives Out (2019)

[citizenscreen]

Tony Curtis as Albert DeSalvo in Richard Fleischer’s THE BOSTON STRANGLER (1968)

[gotankgo]

Boston

circa 1970s

[youcalledmebabe]

“I’m not just signing autographs,” he snaps.

“Yeah, because people are lining up to buy David fucking Webster’s autograph,” an achingly familiar voice scoffs.

David dares to dream in the split second before he looks up and meets Joe Liebgott’s clever brown eyes.

He’s laid awake in beds in Cambridge, Westchester, and Los Angeles imagining a thousand opening lines for when he saw Joe again. Casual, romantic, angry, funny, poetic. He’s scribbled them in his journals, started unsent letters with them, wrote them into his book. Now that Joe is in front of him, all he can muster up is, “this isn’t California.”

the fabled webgott before sunset au :))

[dudja]

Me During This Heatwave: #horrorstories #heatwave #nightmareonelmst #elmstreet #freddy #part2 #memes