Boston repertory listings with critic-banter momentum.
Post-Movie treats local repertory listings as an excuse to talk movies hard and fast. Screenings at places like the Coolidge, Brattle, Somerville, Harvard Film Archive, and MFA become springboards for actor lore, genre history, festival notes, and blunt critical tangents.
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Post-Movie is a movie-calendar conversation with a critic's memory and a local's sense of the room. Its recurring mode is simple: start with what is playing around Boston, then follow the film wherever the association leads. That might mean Jack Nicholson, Burt Reynolds, Burgess Meredith, James Bond rights weirdness, Keanu Reeves action choreography, Hong Kong stunt work, or the long afterlife of a movie once treated as a punchline. The show is not a tidy review program. It is faster and looser than that. Listings for the Coolidge Corner Theatre, the Brattle, the Somerville Theatre, the Harvard Film Archive, and the Museum of Fine Arts become a moving map of repertory life. The hosts and BOFCA voices care about dates and venues, but they also care about why a screening has texture. A midnight body-horror series is not just a slot on a calendar. A Bee Movie showing can become a conversation about colony collapse, Jerry Seinfeld as an animated bee, and the bizarre shape of a children's film. A camp screening can lead into how reputations reverse, why camp lasts, or how studio machinery shapes blockbuster reception. The tone is friendly, informed, and unvarnished. It can be dry. It can be excited. It is comfortable saying when a film is nasty, goofy, beautiful, overblown, or secretly more interesting than its reputation suggests. The year-end awards episodes widen the frame, bringing in BOFCA members to argue through the films, politics, performances, and critical moods of a given year. Even there, the show keeps the feeling of film writers talking at speed after seeing too much and still caring. Post-Movie works best as a companion for people who like the culture around movies as much as the movies themselves. It has practical value for Boston-area repertory-goers, but the appeal travels further. The real subject is how film people talk when the calendar is only the beginning.
Made for: For filmgoers who track repertory calendars, midnight screenings, camp revivals, festival runs, and critical reputations in motion. It especially fits listeners who enjoy casual but informed movie talk with local Boston venue knowledge baked in.
What sets it apart: Post-Movie turns screening rundowns into lively critical digressions instead of treating listings as announcements. Its edge comes from the mix of practical venue detail, deep film memory, and loose BOFCA conversation.
Founded in 2009. Boston film critics Stephen Slaughter Head and John Black discover new and old films, and revisit the classics and far from classics. Join them on their never-ending quest for the coolness in cinema! [Members: Boston Online Film Critics Association - BOFCA.com]
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Post-Movie pairs candid film judgments with sharp reconsiderations of home-video releases, repertory screenings and movies whose reputations have shifted.
Post-Movie turns film conversation into an informed, loose-limbed exchange. Steve Head and John Black move through home-video releases with attention to pacing, performances, visual presentation and the difference between enjoyable excess and simple failure.
A repertory calendar becomes your excuse to reconsider Bee Movie, Showgirls, and Keanu Reeves.
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Boston film critics discuss the November 2018 repertory screening calendar, focusing on Coolidge Corner's after midnight body horror theme.
Two film critics discuss Burgess Meredith's age and career, touching on his roles in The Twilight Zone, Batman, and Rocky.
Two film critics discuss the life and career of actor Bill Paxton, sharing memories and appreciation for his work.
Film critics discuss the challenges of screening year-end movies like Hateful Eight and Star Wars before voting on awards, and debate the impact of reviews on box office success.
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Bob Chipman lays out September repertory programming for the Coolidge Corner Theater, Brattle Theatre, Somerville Theatre, Harvard Film Archive, and the MFA.
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