REVIEW: “Splitsville” (2025) Dir. Michael Angelo Corvino, Boston Hassle

GO-TO: ‘The Fly” (1986) Dir. David Cronenberg, Boston Hassle

GO-TO: “Mulholland Drive” (2001) Dir. David Lynch, Boston Hassle

REVIEW: “The Monkey” (2025) Dir. Osgood Perkins, Boston Hassle

YEAR ENDER: Karenna Umscheid’s Top Ten Films of 2024, Boston Hassle

GO-TO: “Revenge” (2017) Dir. Coralie Fargeat, Boston Hassle

GO-TO: “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” (1977) Dir. Steven Spielberg, Boston Hassle

REVIEW: “Wicked” (2024) Dir. Jon M. Chu, Boston Hassle

SERIES: Everything is Fine: The Films of David Lynch, Boston Hassle

REVIEW: Joker: Folie à Deux (2024) Dir. Todd Phillips, Boston Hassle

BUFF Review: “With Love and a Major Organ” (2023) Dir. Kim Albright, Boston Hassle

GO-TO: “Leave No Trace” (2018) Dir. Debra Granik, Boston Hassle

Early Warning: Still Walking: The Cinema of Hirokazu Kore-eda, Boston Hassle

Year-Ender: Karenna Umscheid’s Best Needle Drops of 2023, Boston Hassle

REVIEW: “How to Have Sex” (2023) Dir. Molly Manning-Walker, Boston Hassle

The Karenna Oscars!, Your Magazine

Year-Ender: Karenna Umscheid’s Top Ten Films of 2023, Boston Hassle

REVIEW: “Mean Girls” (2024) Dir. Samantha Jayne & Arturo Perez Jr, Boston Hassle

IFF Boston Fall Focus Review: “Perfect Days” (2023) Dir. Wim Wenders, Boston Hassle

IFF Boston Fall Focus Review:; “Monster” (2023) Dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda, Boston Hassle

Why We’re Still Dreaming, Thirty Years Later, Latent Images Magazine

Music Criticism

“I’m Gonna Keep on Dancing to ‘The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess,’” Milk Crate

Farewell To My ‘Eras’ Era, Milk Crate

‘grendel’ is JOBIE’s melancholic, sonic storytelling at its absolute best (and saddest), Milk Crate

Arts and Culture Reporting

Crucial choices, discoveries and high-tech design feature in next season of Central Square Theater, Cambridge Day

Community engagement and creative recipes are the key to success at Union Square’s backbar, The Somerville Times

With trivia nights, live music and drag events, Aeronaut emphasizes community with beer, Cambridge Day

The Huntington’s production of Fat Ham remixes a classic tale for today’s world, The Berkeley Beacon

Little Fuss in the Big Boston Scene, Milk Crate

The Masonic Temple of Boston opens its doors to the public, The Berkeley Beacon