Monday Happenings

Movies

-- Magner's Irish Film Festival winds down its tribute to Irish director John Boorman, and, if you are quick, you will catch both sides of his Janus face. The first side, Arty Filmmaker Boorman, makes an appearance at HFA with Leo the Last (1970), a film about class and racial tension starring Marcello Mastroianni and featuring a soundtrack of experimental music. The second side, Boorman the Lunatic, unreels at the Brattle with Zardoz (1974), which features a scantily clad Sean Connery flying through space inside of a giant head. Something for everybody. Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St., 7 p.m. and Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., 9:30 p.m. Cambridge.

Wine and Words

-- Boston Wine Writers unite monthly to discuss the craft and dissemination of their work. Tonight, Bostonist's wine guy Dale Cruse covers HTML and wine blogging. As with any gathering of wine enthusiasts, it's a good bet that there will be something to drink. Boston Wine School, 1354 Comm. Ave., 6:30 p.m. Free.

Drinking and Doubting

-- The Boston Skeptics in the Pub married their twin loves: reason and booze. Every month, they gather to debunk and drink. Tonight, the group welcomes Harvard researcher Sam Moulton, whose experiments involving twins and porn may have disproved telepathy. Tommy Doyle's (2nd Floor), 96 Winthrop St., Cambridge, 7 p.m. Free.

Music

-- No Age is a drums-and-guitar duo that strips pop music down to its essentials: two chords and a sneer. The group rather presumptuously takes its name from a 1987 SST compilation of challenging instrumental pop music, most of which is far more complicated than anything that No Age plays. But that's about the most pretentious thing about the group. Its CD fits snugly between Deerhunter and Times New Viking on the right thinking person's bookshelf. With Soft Circle and Silk Flowers. Middle East Downstairs, 472 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, 7:30 p.m. $12.