In this week’s episode, we took on the mystery of the “Boston movie”—a cinematic subgenre whose appeal is closely tied to the distinctive Boston accent. We invited Boston University linguist Dr.

Geographically, Boston is farther away from Los Angeles than any other major U.S. city. But for more than a century, filmmakers have found their way to Massachusetts to make movies. The very first ...

After ten days and nearly 10,000 votes, Boston.com readers have crowned “Good Will Hunting” the champion of our Massachusetts Movie Madness bracket. Almost 30 years after Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s ...