Movies

Film (2013)
Directed by Peter Jackson
Screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens,
Peter Jackson, Guillermo del Toro
based on the novel The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Part II of the film mega-version of the short introductory Middle Earth novel – long, with non-stop battling of orcs, elves, dwarves and dragons, and much better than Part I.

Film (2013)
Directed by Sini Anderson
Brattle Theater
Cambridge, MA
A portrait of Kathleen Hanna, who emerged as a feminist punk rocker, leader of the band Bikini Kill, and voice of the riot grrrl movement in the early 1990s in the Pacific Northwest.

Film (2013)
Directed by John Krokidas
A thoughtful, suspenseful and well-constructed account of the dramatic life of noted American poet Allen Ginsberg during his time as a student at Columbia University.

Film (2013)
Written and directed
by Richard Curtis
With Domhnall Gleeson,
Rachel McAdams, Bill Nighy
A delightful fable about love, romantic and filial, and time travel, with very particular limitations.

Film (2013)
Directed by Steve McQueen
Screenplay by John Ridley
based on Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
Kendall Square Cinema
Cambridge, MA
A devastating and penetrating account of the abduction and subjection of a Northern free black man in the South during the decades before the Civil War.