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You may not be able to make it home in time for that mayoral debate at 5pm, but perhaps you can get to the North End Parks on the Kennedy Greenway by 7pm for a free screening of that Boston classic Good Will Hunting tonight. ZipCar is sponsoring the screening, where current members can get driving credits for signing up a friend; the friend will also get a discounted membership. Our friend Sam Yoon may want to make city cars more zippy, but sadly that won't cover plain old residents, so you may just have to sign up.

So in case you haven't heard already, our homeboy Matt Damon's not a big Sarah Palin fan. Maybe he just doesn't like mooseburgers. Or lipstick. Or maybe he's sexist! Yeah, that must be it!

Ben Affleck is by no means the savior of the city for making a movie all about Boston. It's just a movie, after all. But some recent harsh criticism from Slate surprised us. Dorchester native Patrick Radden Keefe notes the abundance of aesthetically challenged individuals in the movie and declares, "The result is not so much what [Scorcese's] Mean Streets did for New York as what Deliverance did for Appalachia." Cue the umbrage. Did he...

Screenings for Mala Noche start today and run through Thursday, June 21. Showtimes are available on the Brattle's website. Like Killer of Sheep, another little-seen classic that was buried in DVD limbo, Gus Van Sant's first feature, 1985's Mala Noche is finally getting some love while on tour. Getting some love is, as a matter of fact, the subject of Mala Noche, and the plot, based on the Walt Curtis novel, follows a clerk (Tim...

Now that we're on this eight days a week kick for doing these picks it seems like it might be time for a new graphic. We'll give you a cookie if you design us a new one. Or maybe a Newcastle next time you catch us at the Middle East. Promise. Monday 8/7 The Roots with Talib Kweli It may not be a Brooklyn block party hosted by Dave Chappelle, but it will be...

Who says Boston doesn't have any celebrities? Since Norm and Cliff don't grace our Thursday night televisions and heralding Good Will Hunting has become passé a lot of people are talking about how we don’t have much celeb power here in the Hub. Forbes Magazine takes a break from rating the richest people in America and the world to take focus on the 100 hottest celebrities – based on both influence and on their annual...