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3 weeks ago | bostonhassle.com | Oscar Goff |Alexis den Boggende |Kyle Amato

The 2025 Boston Underground Film Festival ran from Wednesday, 3/19 through Sunday, 3/23 at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, and the Hassle’s intrepid writers Oscar Goff, Alexis den Boggende, and Kyle Amato were on the scene. Click here to catch up with the Hassle’s first dispatch from BUFF, and watch this space for our team’s continuing coverage!THE DUNWICH HORRORS dir.

Aug 8, 2024 | bostonhassle.com | Oscar Goff

Werner Herzog’s 1982 epic Fitzcarraldo is, by any metric, a landmark of world cinema. Its story– about an eccentric dreamer’s quixotic quest to pull a steamship over a mountain in the Amazon rainforest and build an opera house in the jungle– remains one of the movies’ most potent metaphors for the frustrations and triumphs of artistic passion.

Aug 1, 2024 | bostonhassle.com | Oscar Goff

Kneecap, the exuberant, mostly-true romp which opens at the Coolidge and the Somerville this weekend, in some ways feels like a corrective to Back to Black, the dreadful Amy Winehouse biopic released earlier this year. Both films are superficially similar, telling as they do the stories of 21st-century musicians who rose to notoriety from working-class backgrounds in the British Isles (Winehouse in suburban London in the early 2000s, Kneecap in West Belfast in the late 2010s).

Jul 30, 2024 | bostonhassle.com | Oscar Goff

The story behind Greg Kwedar’s Sing Sing, which opens this Friday at the Coolidge Corner Theatre, is nearly as inspiring as that of the film itself. The great Colman Domingo plays John “Divine G” Whitfield, a soulful writer and actor incarcerated in the titular prison who finds artistic release and community in a robust and vibrant theater program.

Jul 25, 2024 | bostonhassle.com | Alexis den Boggende

Dystopian flicks are beginning to feel a little too close to reality—and that’s exactly how Caitlin Cronenberg’s Humane feels. The film opens with depressing and overwhelming sound bites that feel a little too close to what we hear on CNN—snippets of various television networks spewing nothing but bad news. Humanity is facing a horrific environmental crisis, and governments worldwide are enforcing voluntary, humane euthanasia upon society to lower the population by 20%.