The Boston Traveler

Monday is going to be a traditionally busy day here in Beantown, what with Patriots’ Day, the 112th annual Boston Marathon, and the Boston Red Sox home game against the Texas Rangers all in the works. How do you find something to do, then, if you have zero interest in any of those events?
I suggest checking out an interesting feature offered at Brookline’s Coolidge Corner Theatre (290 Harvard Street, Brookline, 617-734-2500) in conjunction with the Museum of Science and New Scientist magazine, namely the monthly Science on Screen series. Designed to make good use of the abundant scientific …read more

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Movie lovers, are you ready for a little something besides the mainstream stuff playing at a local multiplex near you? If so, the Boston Underground Film Festival, aka BUFF, just might have something to offer by way of freshness and diversity this weekend.
The ten-year-old annual event began as an informal affair in 1999, but has since matured and expanded into a full-fledged, more conventionally arranged series of screenings. And, unlike the fare you’ll find at whatever national chain happens to service your community, many of the scheduled works at BUFF will be hosted by the writers, directors, and …read more

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Like fish, and not just or necessarily to eat? Two popular Boston destinations are currently screening films capable of giving viewers an extra-special underwater nature experience.
And, these aren’t the run-of-the-mill, humdrum movies already available at the local theater either. The New England Aquarium and Museum of Science are going grand instead, serving up deep-sea footage in larger-than-life 3D style.
Deep Sea 3D
New England Aquarium
The New England Aquarium (Central Wharf, Boston, 617-973-5200) bills its Deep Sea 3D film as an “underwater adventure” and correctly so. Presented with breathtaking IMAX 3D technology, the shots beneath the ocean’s surface give viewers …read more

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Comic-actor Martin Lawrence (Big Momma’s House 1 and 2, Bad Boys 1 and 2) has a new movie opening next Friday, February 8, called Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins. In the comedy, he plays RJ Stevens, a famous talk-show host and self-help guru in the style of Oprah or Dr. Phil who hails from the small Southern town of Dry Springs, Georgia.
When Stevens’ parents ask him to return home for their 50th wedding anniversary, the entertainment personality does, and he brings along his ten-year-old son, new wife, and misunderstanding that since he’s a media star now, his family and old …read more

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Local newspaper the Boston Globe is holding an Arts & Entertainment Weekend of events this Saturday and Sunday, January 26–27, and the best part is everything is free, free, free. Billed as Globe Talks, the series of three discussions focuses on theater and film right here in the Bay State.
Saturday | January 26
A Conversation with Playwright Douglas Carter Beane
First up on Saturday is “A Conversation with Playwright Douglas Carter Beane.” A Tony Award nominee in 2007 for the Broadway comedy The Little Dog Laughed, Douglas Carter Beane also wrote, among many other things, the screenplay for the 1995 …read more

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…and Rutger Hauer and Sean Young and Edward James Olmos and Darryl Hannah and Joanna Cassidy and James Hong and M. Emmet Walsh and Brion James…
Those individuals looking for something different to do on Christmas Day are in luck, especially if they have a soft spot for action movies in the science-fiction genre with prominent neo-noir elements. At a time when many are lounging around their homes, marveling at gifts and enough tasty food to feed a small army for a month, Cambridge’s Brattle Theatre will present a surprisingly compatible antidote, namely the supposed Final Cut of Ridley Scott’s …read more

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