Join the Boston Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, Jun 25th at 5:10pm for Wordplay at the Kendall Square Cinema . Look for Sean wearing a nametag in the theatre lobby about 15 minutes before the film. As always, after the film we will descend on a local establishment for dinner/drinks/discussion.

The man most associated with crossword puzzles is New York Times puzzle editor and NPR puzzle-master Will Shortz. Director/co-writer Patrick Creadon introduces us to this passionate hero, and to the inner workings of his brilliant and often hilarious contributors, revealing the process and allure of this uniquely American pastime. The odyssey leads to the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, an annual challenge founded by Shortz which is as much about community and camaraderie as it is about competition. Featuring interviews with celebrity crossword puzzlers such as Bill Clinton, Bob Dole, Jon Stewart, Ken Burns and Mike Mussina.

Join the Boston Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, Jun 18th at 5:30pm for Sir! No Sir! at the Brattle Theatre . Look for Sean wearing a nametag in the theatre lobby about 15 minutes before the film. As always, after the film we will descend on a local establishment for dinner/drinks/discussion.

“One of the most memorable chapters of the Vietnam War has also long been one of the least revisited: the antiwar movement inside the military. Called the G.I. Movement, this resistance manifested itself in countless ways: in organized protests, in desertions and in the coffeehouses that sprang up across the country near military bases. In the early 1970’s the documentary filmmaker David Zeiger worked in one such coffeehouse, the Oleo Strut in Killeen, TX, not far from Fort Hood…

In his smart, timely documentary about the G.I. Movement, SIR! NO SIR!, Mr. Zeiger takes a look at how the movement changed and occasionally even rocked the military from the ground troops on up… During the 1960’s and 70’s American newspapers routinely reported a significantly different story than the one later cooked up by Hollywood and other revisionists. This film shows that as antiwar sentiment gathered strength in American streets, a parallel movement seized the armed forces. By September 1971 dissent among the ranks had become a front-page subject in this newspaper, with a headline that read “Army Is Shaken by Crisis in Morale and Discipline.” … John Kerry’s bid for president proved that long after fighting in Vietnam came to an end, a war of words continues to rage. It’s a war of words that finds Jane Fonda - who performed for tens of thousands of troops in an antiwar revue, ‘Free the Army,’ and makes a passionate appearance in the film - still labeled Hanoi Jane. ‘Remembered as a war that was lost because of betrayal at home,’ Mr. Lembcke has written, ‘Vietnam becomes a modern-day Alamo that must be avenged, a pretext for more war and generations of more veterans.’ In SIR! NO SIR!, Mr. Zeiger remembers that war and the veterans whose struggles against it are too often forgotten.” - Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

Join the Boston Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, Jun 11th at 7:00pm for Raiders of the Lost Ark at the Brattle Theatre . Look for Sean wearing a nametag in the theatre lobby about 15 minutes before the film. As always, after the film we will descend on a local establishment for dinner/drinks/discussion.

Renowned archeologist and expert in the occult, Dr. Indiana Jones, is hired by the U.S. Government to find the Ark of the Covenant, which is believed to still hold the ten commandments. Unfortunately, agents of Hitler are also after the Ark. Indy, and his ex-flame Marion, escape from various close scrapes in a quest that takes them from Nepal to Cairo.

Join the Boston Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, Jun 4th at 7:00pm for An Inconvenient Truth at the Coolidge Corner Theatre . Look for Sean wearing a nametag in the theatre lobby about 15 minutes before the film. As always, after the film we will descend on a local establishment for dinner/drinks/discussion.

“It is now clear that we face a deepening global climate crisis that requires us to act boldly, quickly, and wisely.” - Al Gore.

Former Vice President Al Gore presents this important documentary on the planet-wide crisis of global warming. In a riveting multi-media lecture, he presents a wide array of facts and information that reveal the truth about climate change: if this issue is not addressed, all life on the planet will be devastated. Gore became interested in this startling issue while at college 30 years ago, and in the past few years, since retiring from politics, he has traveled the globe staging free events for small, invited audiences on this issue. He works exhaustively to disabuse doubters of the notion that climate change is debatable. His proof is the indisputable correlation between CO2 emissions and exponentially rising temperatures, an epidemic which is already responsible for ice-cap melting, drought, and rising sea levels. This is not a political issue, rather one of global stability, and Gore’s goal is to lay out the facts for the audience to draw their own conclusions. With humor and searing intelligence, he outlines crucial steps we must take to avert impending disaster and proves that inaction is no longer an option ­ in fact, it’s downright immoral.

The Boston Sunday Night Film Club will not be meeting this Sunday, May 28th, in observance of Memorial Day Weekend. We will return the following Sunday, so enjoy the weekend (and, if you are going to catch it this weekend, enjoy X-Men too).

Join the Boston Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, May 21st at 6:30pm for The Da Vinci Code at the Fenway 13 . Look for Sean wearing a nametag in the theatre lobby about 15 minutes before the film. As always, after the film we will descend on a local establishment for dinner/drinks/discussion.

While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon (‘Tom Hanks’) receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. Solving the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci - clues visible for all to see, and yet ingeniously disguised by the painter. Langdon joins forces with a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou), and learns the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion - an actual secret society. In a breathless race through Paris, London and beyond, Langdon and Neveu match wits with a faceless powerbroker who appears to work for Opus Dei - a clandestine, Vatican-sanctioned Catholic organization believed to have long plotted to seize the Priory’s secret. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle in time, the Priory’s secret - and a stunning historical truth - will be lost forever.

Join the Boston Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, May 14th at 4:25pm for Art School Confidential at the Kendall Square Cinema . Look for Sean wearing a nametag in the theatre lobby about 15 minutes before the film. As always, after the film we will descend on a local establishment for dinner/drinks/discussion.

Filmmaker Terry Zwigoff and comic artist and screenwriter Daniel Clowes, who collaborated for the acclaimed 2001 comedy-drama Ghost World, team up once again for this offbeat satire. Jerome (Max Minghella) is an aspiring artist who arrives at a prestigious East Coast art institute to study. While Jerome enjoys daydreams of becoming the best-respected painter on Earth and winning the hearts of his female classmates, he soon learns the sad truth – his “cool artist” act is old hat in the big city, and as he’s surrounded by every art school cliché on Earth, practically nothing about him stands out. Determined to be recognized whatever the consequences, Jerome maps out a bizarre plan to become famous that has some unexpected consequences. Loosely adapted from a story in Clowes’ comic book Eightball, Art School Confidential also stars John Malkovich, Jim Broadbent, Anjelica Huston, and Sophia Myles.

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Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, May 7th at 7:00pm for Mission: Impossible III at the Fenway 13. Look for Sean wearing a nametag in the theatre lobby about 15 minutes before the film. As always, after the film we will descend on a local establishment for dinner/drinks/discussion.

“Recently retired, Agent Ethan Hunt lives a slower-paced life training new IMF agents. With this change, new opportunities enter his life, including a possible marriage to his girlfriend Julia. However, when a new conflict arises, Ethan is called back to duty to confront the toughest villain he’s ever faced - Owen Davian, an international weapons and information provider with no remorse and no conscience.”

Join the Boston Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, April 30th at 5:30pm for Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story at the Brattle Theatre. Look for Sean wearing a nametag in the theatre lobby about 15 minutes before the film. As always, after the film we will descend on a local establishment for dinner/drinks/discussion. This is an exclusive engagement at the Brattle, so you may wish to pre-order tickets or show up early.

“The best mock documentaries - This is SPINAL TAP, BOB ROBERTS, WAITING FOR GUFFMAN - work because they fall just short of mockery. They have real affection for their subjects, and can recreate those subjects’ hilariously skewed version of the world insofar as they fully inhabit that world. Mock-docs that don’t do this are either mean, obvious, or both.

Thankfully, BLACKBALLED writer-director Brant Sersen loves paintballers, and his movie has the winking empathy that marks all great mock-docs. A hilarious cast, complete with (Boston’s own) Rob Corddry of “The Daily Show” and much of the cast from the famed “Upright Citizens Brigade,” put together a group of memorable characters and one-liners that are sure to become tomorrow’s dorm-room jokes.

Corddry is Bobby Dukes, the uncontested Michael Jordan of paintball for many years…until the day he committed the unthinkable during a paintball match: he “wiped.“We get this back-story in a clever opening sequence, then meet Bobby ten years after his betrayal of the sport. Now, he’s decided that it is time to return to the paintball field, face the demons of his past, and assemble a motley crew of paintballers to compete in the Hudson Valley Paintball Classic. Game on! - notes from the Independent Film Festival of Boston 2005.

Alongside Corddry, the cast is rounded out by many familiar comedic faces including: Ed Helms (The Daily Show), Paul Scheer (VH1’s Best Week Ever), Rob Riggle (Saturday Night Live), Rob Huebel (Curb Your Enthusiasm) and local comic legend DJ Hazzard.”

Join the Boston Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, April 23rd at 7:00pm for “The Beauty Academy of Kabul” at the Kendall Square Cinema. Look for Sean wearing a nametag and sitting in the little seating area in the lobby about 15 minutes before the film. As always, after the film we will descend on a local establishment for dinner/drinks/discussion.

“Who would ever dream that what war-torn Afghanistan needed was a school for hairdressers? Yet this surprising and humorous film reveals that there is healing power—as well as economic opportunity—in the pursuit of beauty. Six American volunteers, three of them Afghan-Americans returning home for the first time in 20 years, come to Kabul to open the country’s first post-Taliban beauty school. The response is so overwhelming that a lottery must be held to select the lucky students. Features the music of Ahmad Zahir. Directed by Liz Mermin. (Partially subtitled)”