Sean Burns is a journalist based in Boston, Massachusetts, focusing on local arts and culture. He writes for WBUR and his work has also appeared in PortSwigger. Sean's articles cover a range of topics including film reviews, cultural commentary, and interviews with prominent directors and actors.
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Sean Burns focuses on reviewing and covering local film events in the Boston, Massachusetts area. He particularly emphasizes American cinema, film editing, and retrospectives. If you have insights into local film industry events or can offer expert commentary related to American cinema or specific films being showcased in the Boston area, your pitches are more likely to catch his attention.
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By: Sean Burns
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In re: EP Energy E&P Company, LP considered three lease maintenance provisions in several oil and gas leases. The federal district court ruled that the leases were maintained in force after cessation of production despite creative (some would say “strained”) lease interpretations by a group of lessors. In sum, the court deemed the lessors’ positions to be contrary to general principles of Texas oil and gas law and concluded that such provisions are complementary, and are not to be interpreted so as to invalidate each other.
A more-personal-than-usual reflection on the holiday perennial, now streaming on Amazon Prime.
Starring Timothée Chalamet, director James Mangold’s movie about Dylan’s early years in NYC is pure Hollywood hokum, "compressing a tumultuous chunk of cultural history into an easily digestible arc," reviews film critic Sean Burns.
The films don’t have much in common except that they both come out Christmas day. "One's an erotic relationship drama and the other is the umpteenth iteration of the most famous vampire story ever told, but both will make you wish you’d brought grandma and the kids to see 'Mufasa: The Lion King' instead," writes critic Sean Burns.
Before he made “Creed' and the “ Black Panther ” movies, writer-director Ryan Coogler came to Boston with his 2013 Sundance prizewinner “Fruitvale
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar, Tilda Swinton plays a former war correspondent with cervical cancer who asks her friend, played by Julianne Moore, to be in the room next door when she dies. "It’s the filmmaker’s most unexpectedly tranquil film, serene in its acceptance of the inevitable," reviews Sean Burns.
At 215 minutes, writer-director Brady Corbet swings for the fences with his "monumental" film about an architect who has fled the Holocaust for America. "It's about tortured geniuses and the vile money men who exploit and defile them," reviews critic Sean Burns.
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