Oscar Goff
@theoscargoff.bsky.social
Writer/movie rat. EIC and Senior Film Critic, Boston Hassle. Film columnist, Cambridge Day. Member: BSFC, OFCS, BOFCA. 🍅-approved. He/him.
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Welcome! Oscar here— I review movies for Boston Hassle (which I also edit), cover the rep house beat for Cambridge Day, and post here about movies, music, and stuff ‘n’ such. Stick around why don’t ya!
Welcome! Oscar here— I review movies for Boston Hassle (which I also edit), cover the rep house beat for Cambridge Day, and post here about movies, music, and stuff ‘n’ such. Stick around why don’t ya!
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This week in @bostonhassle.bsky.social I reviewed Lynne Ramsay’s DIE MY LOVE, in which Jennifer Lawrence turns her adorkable screen persona into a weapon of mass destruction. bostonhassle.com/review-die-m...
REVIEW: Die My Love (2025) dir. Lynne Ramsay // BOSTON HASSLE
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November 7, 2025 at 9:01 PM
This week in @bostonhassle.bsky.social I reviewed Lynne Ramsay’s DIE MY LOVE, in which Jennifer Lawrence turns her adorkable screen persona into a weapon of mass destruction. bostonhassle.com/review-die-m...
I’ve been back on the CD tip since getting our car, and it’s a LOT like what buying vinyl was like in the ‘90s right now: steals to be had on rad old stuff (if you can find a place selling them), but cool new stuff is being pressed in tiny runs and needs to be snapped up ASAP.
Interesting convo with a friend who owns a hip NYC record shop about a sudden renewed interest in CDs, which were a negligible part of his business till recently.
November 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I’ve been back on the CD tip since getting our car, and it’s a LOT like what buying vinyl was like in the ‘90s right now: steals to be had on rad old stuff (if you can find a place selling them), but cool new stuff is being pressed in tiny runs and needs to be snapped up ASAP.
The Musk-JCO thing is so funny on so many levels, but don’t sleep on the fact that he’s trying to prove his movie-cred by replying to Cinesthetic, the horny actress picture account.
November 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
The Musk-JCO thing is so funny on so many levels, but don’t sleep on the fact that he’s trying to prove his movie-cred by replying to Cinesthetic, the horny actress picture account.
This weird (bootleg?) Spanish Velvet Underground comp has the most demented/brilliant track sequencing I have ever seen in my life.
November 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This weird (bootleg?) Spanish Velvet Underground comp has the most demented/brilliant track sequencing I have ever seen in my life.
One of the funniest movies made this century.
Michael Jai White in BLACK DYNAMITE (2009)
He was BOTD in 1967
He was BOTD in 1967
November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
One of the funniest movies made this century.
I know complaining about the RRHOF is played, but Jesus Christ how is Dick Dale still not in there?
In his Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame induction speech, Jack White shouted out over 30 acts that inspired the White Stripes – none of whom have been inducted
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November 9, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I know complaining about the RRHOF is played, but Jesus Christ how is Dick Dale still not in there?
Round 2 with BUGONIA at the Coolidge, and shout out to the woman in front of me who watched the entire second half with her head in her hands.
November 9, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Round 2 with BUGONIA at the Coolidge, and shout out to the woman in front of me who watched the entire second half with her head in her hands.
Listen: I’m not made of stone.
November 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Listen: I’m not made of stone.
The thing here is that digital effects are limited by the state of an art which is constantly evolving, whereas practical effects are limited only by the resources and imagination of the artist. Nothing in AVATAR has held up as well in 16 years as Karloff’s FRANKENSTEIN makeup has in 94.
November 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The thing here is that digital effects are limited by the state of an art which is constantly evolving, whereas practical effects are limited only by the resources and imagination of the artist. Nothing in AVATAR has held up as well in 16 years as Karloff’s FRANKENSTEIN makeup has in 94.
Pitch: an anthology film with four segments in which each of the Hollywood Todds directs one of the Hollywood Chrises. Not sure the exact pairings, but Solondz definitely gets Pratt.
November 8, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Pitch: an anthology film with four segments in which each of the Hollywood Todds directs one of the Hollywood Chrises. Not sure the exact pairings, but Solondz definitely gets Pratt.
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Bot account idea: Randomly generated “MFW” memes but the picture is always just the Kuleshov Effect guy.
November 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Bot account idea: Randomly generated “MFW” memes but the picture is always just the Kuleshov Effect guy.
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Thinking about the time a guy came up to the counter at Barnes & Noble with a copy of THE USUAL SUSPECTS, and while I was ringing him up he pointed to Benicio del Toro and said to his girlfriend, “You know, he directed PAN’S LABYRINTH.”
June 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Thinking about the time a guy came up to the counter at Barnes & Noble with a copy of THE USUAL SUSPECTS, and while I was ringing him up he pointed to Benicio del Toro and said to his girlfriend, “You know, he directed PAN’S LABYRINTH.”
This week in @bostonhassle.bsky.social I reviewed Lynne Ramsay’s DIE MY LOVE, in which Jennifer Lawrence turns her adorkable screen persona into a weapon of mass destruction. bostonhassle.com/review-die-m...
REVIEW: Die My Love (2025) dir. Lynne Ramsay // BOSTON HASSLE
bostonhassle.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:01 PM
This week in @bostonhassle.bsky.social I reviewed Lynne Ramsay’s DIE MY LOVE, in which Jennifer Lawrence turns her adorkable screen persona into a weapon of mass destruction. bostonhassle.com/review-die-m...
Absolutely unconscionable that a body horror movie called WORMTOWN does not take place in Worcester, Massachusetts 😡
November 7, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Absolutely unconscionable that a body horror movie called WORMTOWN does not take place in Worcester, Massachusetts 😡
I’ve been seeing “casted” popping up more and more in posts, and it sets my teeth on edge almost as badly as “vinyls.”
November 7, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I’ve been seeing “casted” popping up more and more in posts, and it sets my teeth on edge almost as badly as “vinyls.”
Bot account idea: Randomly generated “MFW” memes but the picture is always just the Kuleshov Effect guy.
November 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Bot account idea: Randomly generated “MFW” memes but the picture is always just the Kuleshov Effect guy.
We act like Google’s enshittification is newly brought on by AI, but it’s worth noting that this has been in place for at least a decade.
This is in no way apologism for Google but click Search Tools and select "Verbatim". It makes it work how you expect
November 7, 2025 at 4:54 PM
We act like Google’s enshittification is newly brought on by AI, but it’s worth noting that this has been in place for at least a decade.
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New column in @cambridgeday.com! This week marks the beginning of Noirvember at @brattletheatre.bsky.social, plus the Boston Jewish Film Festival, Columbia rarities at the HFA, some local premieres, Scorsese, and Godzilla!
Noirvember meets Godzilla from the ’50s to now and Marty (Scorsese) meets Robbie (Robertson) - Cambridge Day
Among film obsessives, few traditions are as beloved as the annual observance of Noirvember, that celebration of hard-drinking gumshoes, steely eyed femmes fatales and dramatic, shadow-drenched mood l...
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November 6, 2025 at 7:09 PM
New column in @cambridgeday.com! This week marks the beginning of Noirvember at @brattletheatre.bsky.social, plus the Boston Jewish Film Festival, Columbia rarities at the HFA, some local premieres, Scorsese, and Godzilla!
New column in @cambridgeday.com! This week marks the beginning of Noirvember at @brattletheatre.bsky.social, plus the Boston Jewish Film Festival, Columbia rarities at the HFA, some local premieres, Scorsese, and Godzilla!
Noirvember meets Godzilla from the ’50s to now and Marty (Scorsese) meets Robbie (Robertson) - Cambridge Day
Among film obsessives, few traditions are as beloved as the annual observance of Noirvember, that celebration of hard-drinking gumshoes, steely eyed femmes fatales and dramatic, shadow-drenched mood l...
www.cambridgeday.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:09 PM
New column in @cambridgeday.com! This week marks the beginning of Noirvember at @brattletheatre.bsky.social, plus the Boston Jewish Film Festival, Columbia rarities at the HFA, some local premieres, Scorsese, and Godzilla!
It’s so funny that Kenneth Anger and Harry Smith both existed at the same time, and that the east and west coasts each got their own practicing occultist underground filmmaker whose best known work is in a medium other than film.
November 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM
It’s so funny that Kenneth Anger and Harry Smith both existed at the same time, and that the east and west coasts each got their own practicing occultist underground filmmaker whose best known work is in a medium other than film.
The Michael Jackson movie should commit to the bit from WEIRD that “Eat It” was an original composition and Michael ripped off Weird Al.
November 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The Michael Jackson movie should commit to the bit from WEIRD that “Eat It” was an original composition and Michael ripped off Weird Al.
My hot take is that there is probably a very good movie to be made about Michael Jackson, but it absolutely cannot be officially licensed by the estate.
Michael Jackson’s nephew Jaafar Jackson as Michael Jackson in the new biopic ‘MICHAEL’
In theaters on April 24, 2026.
In theaters on April 24, 2026.
November 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM
My hot take is that there is probably a very good movie to be made about Michael Jackson, but it absolutely cannot be officially licensed by the estate.
Booked my yearly Screener Skip Days to facilitate last-minute FYC cramming. Now to strategize my viewing between now and then so I’m not just marathonning the most depressing films of the year.
November 5, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Booked my yearly Screener Skip Days to facilitate last-minute FYC cramming. Now to strategize my viewing between now and then so I’m not just marathonning the most depressing films of the year.