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!
One of several Far Side cartoons embedded so deeply in my brain I sometimes can’t remember if I imagined it or not.
November 14, 2025 at 11:51 PM
One of several Far Side cartoons embedded so deeply in my brain I sometimes can’t remember if I imagined it or not.
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Missed the “two books” part of the prompt, so let’s add the minutes of the 1988 MUFON International UFO symposium on Abductions and the ET Hypothesis.
November 14, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Missed the “two books” part of the prompt, so let’s add the minutes of the 1988 MUFON International UFO symposium on Abductions and the ET Hypothesis.
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In the long run, I suspect “That cute cat video might be AI” will turn more people away from social media and the internet as a whole than decades of misinformation and abuse.
November 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
In the long run, I suspect “That cute cat video might be AI” will turn more people away from social media and the internet as a whole than decades of misinformation and abuse.
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I seem to have had more fun with Edgar Wright’s THE RUNNING MAN than most; a topical and gleefully crass slice of Verhoevensploitation, with bonus points for namechecking Jamaica Plain. Review in @cambridgeday.com!
Reviewed: 'One to One: John & Yoko,' 'Nouvelle Vague,' 'The Running Man,' 'Hedda' and 'Lurker' in theaters and streaming - Cambridge Day
In theaters and streaming now are the sharp documentary “One to One: John & Yoko,” Linklater flashback “Nouvelle Vague,” timely action remake “The Running Man,” updated “Hedda” and clout-obsessed “Lur...
www.cambridgeday.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I seem to have had more fun with Edgar Wright’s THE RUNNING MAN than most; a topical and gleefully crass slice of Verhoevensploitation, with bonus points for namechecking Jamaica Plain. Review in @cambridgeday.com!
Woke up this morning with the question “What ever happened to the girl from the Rentals who wasn’t Petra Haden?” on my mind, and I never in a million years would have guessed the answer.
November 14, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Woke up this morning with the question “What ever happened to the girl from the Rentals who wasn’t Petra Haden?” on my mind, and I never in a million years would have guessed the answer.
He learned what “one for me” feels like, and decided that it’s not for him.
November 13, 2025 at 10:42 PM
He learned what “one for me” feels like, and decided that it’s not for him.
I’m not sure I can fully articulate it, but this feel related to the James Bond discourse from the other day. Canon is for nerds; similarly, we should reject the style guide and embrace “This looks rad as hell.”
Super Mario World has an extremely eclectic art style whereby many enemies are drawn in completely different ways. Development files reveal Mario went through many stylistic changes; it is possible that all the enemies were made to fit Mario, but at different points in time.
November 13, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I’m not sure I can fully articulate it, but this feel related to the James Bond discourse from the other day. Canon is for nerds; similarly, we should reject the style guide and embrace “This looks rad as hell.”
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I’ve taken to compiling quick collages in my planner out of the bits of ephemera I collect each week. I’m particularly proud of this one (from Halloween week).
November 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I’ve taken to compiling quick collages in my planner out of the bits of ephemera I collect each week. I’m particularly proud of this one (from Halloween week).
Catch me on the right day and I might tell you this is my favorite Coens.
'Hail, Caesar!' cultural/critical reevaluation time
November 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Catch me on the right day and I might tell you this is my favorite Coens.
I feel like there’s a piece to be written about the middlebrow studio pictures which dominate on specific platforms: THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION on IMDb, studio-era Peter Weir on Letterboxd.
November 13, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I feel like there’s a piece to be written about the middlebrow studio pictures which dominate on specific platforms: THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION on IMDb, studio-era Peter Weir on Letterboxd.
I seem to have had more fun with Edgar Wright’s THE RUNNING MAN than most; a topical and gleefully crass slice of Verhoevensploitation, with bonus points for namechecking Jamaica Plain. Review in @cambridgeday.com!
Reviewed: 'One to One: John & Yoko,' 'Nouvelle Vague,' 'The Running Man,' 'Hedda' and 'Lurker' in theaters and streaming - Cambridge Day
In theaters and streaming now are the sharp documentary “One to One: John & Yoko,” Linklater flashback “Nouvelle Vague,” timely action remake “The Running Man,” updated “Hedda” and clout-obsessed “Lur...
www.cambridgeday.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I seem to have had more fun with Edgar Wright’s THE RUNNING MAN than most; a topical and gleefully crass slice of Verhoevensploitation, with bonus points for namechecking Jamaica Plain. Review in @cambridgeday.com!
I’ve taken to compiling quick collages in my planner out of the bits of ephemera I collect each week. I’m particularly proud of this one (from Halloween week).
November 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I’ve taken to compiling quick collages in my planner out of the bits of ephemera I collect each week. I’m particularly proud of this one (from Halloween week).
Reposted by Oscar Goff
In JAY KELLY there’s a thread about a pair of (unseen) filmmaker brothers who sound very much like the Safdies, making this (at least) the fourth Safdie-adjacent film of the season.
November 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM
In JAY KELLY there’s a thread about a pair of (unseen) filmmaker brothers who sound very much like the Safdies, making this (at least) the fourth Safdie-adjacent film of the season.
The loneliness of being the one person on social media who believes AVATAR has a genuinely huge cultural footprint but also that they are deeply terrible movies.
November 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The loneliness of being the one person on social media who believes AVATAR has a genuinely huge cultural footprint but also that they are deeply terrible movies.
In JAY KELLY there’s a thread about a pair of (unseen) filmmaker brothers who sound very much like the Safdies, making this (at least) the fourth Safdie-adjacent film of the season.
November 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM
In JAY KELLY there’s a thread about a pair of (unseen) filmmaker brothers who sound very much like the Safdies, making this (at least) the fourth Safdie-adjacent film of the season.
Autobiographical order, incomplete:
Borgel
Hitchhiker’s Guide
Cult Flicks & Trash Pics
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Fear & Loathing
A Year at the Movies
Songs in the Key of Z
Crying of Lot 49
Mainlines, Blood Feasts, & Bad Taste
Killing Yourself to Live
Watchmen
I Lost It at the Movies
Geek Love
Borgel
Hitchhiker’s Guide
Cult Flicks & Trash Pics
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Fear & Loathing
A Year at the Movies
Songs in the Key of Z
Crying of Lot 49
Mainlines, Blood Feasts, & Bad Taste
Killing Yourself to Live
Watchmen
I Lost It at the Movies
Geek Love
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 11, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Autobiographical order, incomplete:
Borgel
Hitchhiker’s Guide
Cult Flicks & Trash Pics
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Fear & Loathing
A Year at the Movies
Songs in the Key of Z
Crying of Lot 49
Mainlines, Blood Feasts, & Bad Taste
Killing Yourself to Live
Watchmen
I Lost It at the Movies
Geek Love
Borgel
Hitchhiker’s Guide
Cult Flicks & Trash Pics
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Fear & Loathing
A Year at the Movies
Songs in the Key of Z
Crying of Lot 49
Mainlines, Blood Feasts, & Bad Taste
Killing Yourself to Live
Watchmen
I Lost It at the Movies
Geek Love
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James Bond is not a “series,” and should not bother with “continuity.” James Bond is something closer to haiku, or twelve-bar blues: a format which can be repeated with endless variations.
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
James Bond is not a “series,” and should not bother with “continuity.” James Bond is something closer to haiku, or twelve-bar blues: a format which can be repeated with endless variations.
Close to the top of my list of people I wish could be on social media.
Flyer for Brother Theodore performing his macabre one man show in NYC
Theodore was BOTD in 1906
Theodore was BOTD in 1906
November 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Close to the top of my list of people I wish could be on social media.
James Bond is not a “series,” and should not bother with “continuity.” James Bond is something closer to haiku, or twelve-bar blues: a format which can be repeated with endless variations.
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
James Bond is not a “series,” and should not bother with “continuity.” James Bond is something closer to haiku, or twelve-bar blues: a format which can be repeated with endless variations.
Reposted by Oscar Goff
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...
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.