It’s more been than three months since Roger Ebert passed away, but he’s still filing copy from the great beyond. Ebert’s site leads this morning with a previously unpublished review of Andrew ...
You need no particular knowledge or affection for the game of kings to appreciate the whimsy of “Computer Chess.” The genius of this indie is its cleverness in capturing the driest of times and the ...
It’s probably safe to say that most professional film critics feel quite comfortable scrutinizing movies in darkened theaters. But Gerald Peary, a longtime reviewer for The Boston Phoenix and a slew ...
Back before computer nerds (and the artificial intelligence they created) inherited the earth, these pasty-faced programmers seemed like little more than socially awkward A/V geeks who had graduated ...
"I don't mind putting something pleasant out into the world," said filmmaker Andrew Bujalski in a recent New York Magazine interview. You don't hear that too often outside the sphere of ...
Set over the course of a weekend tournament for chess software programmers thirty-some years ago, Computer Chess transports viewers to a nostalgic moment when the contest between technology and the ...
Writer/director Andrew Bujalski’s latest feature was filmed in black and white with vintage tube-based video cameras, and the image swims and glistens unnaturally. The story is set in the early 1980s, ...