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If you missed Inland Empire because you were too busy, don't worry. The Brattle has given you a little Christmas gift by adding more shows after the original run, which was supposed to end yesterday. Now, the Brattle will run the movie in which David Lynch out-Lynches himself at 1:00 pm next Monday through Friday. This exercise in stream-of-consciousness filmmaking, which sounds like Mulholland Drive times 12 plus Laura Dern plus rabbits, may be the... more ›

On Monday night Bostonist had a chance to see Happy Endings, the latest film from writer/director Don Roos (Bounce, the Opposite of Sex), at the Landmark Kendall theater, and also stuck around after the film for a Q+A with actor Jason Ritter. Usually the title Happy Endings would allude to something a bit more lascivious or perverted, but in this case there were no lecherous old men being "fully serviced". The rather convoluted basis for the movie lies in a handful of storylines intricately threaded together and star an ensemble cast of familiar names - Lisa Kudrow, Tom Arnold, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jason Ritter, and Laura Dern. In general the multiple plots target the unpredictability of life, loves, and the uncertainty people have in themselves and those around them. more ›