Oscar Goff
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Oscar Goff
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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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Also a surprising amount of screen time devoted to alternative pedagogy, if I recall!
November 19, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Happy to be of service!
November 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The line I remember, from someone who knew him: “He was the best driver I ever met… but the worst person.”
November 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I probably would have gotten into an argument pushing MARS ATTACKS!
November 18, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Be sure to listen to the end for the extended, spoken recreation of a Black Mass (which was later sampled on Negativland’s infamous “U2” EP). “KISS! THE GOAT!”
November 18, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Love when they’d recognize and zero in on an instant classic. They knew right away FARGO was something special.
November 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM
From their Best of 1996 show, and goddamn what a banger year.
Siskel & Ebert - Best of 1996
YouTube video by Flaccidus Minimus
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November 18, 2025 at 5:36 PM
It launched just as I was getting into movies, which was a godsend. Scrolling through Monty Python members’ filmographies in 6th grade led me to beg my mom to drive me an hour to a tiny arthouse theater showing Terry Jones’ WIND IN THE WILLOWS— a huge episode in my origin story.
November 18, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Social media? I’d miss you guys, but I’d live. But I don’t know how I’d cope if I couldn’t confirm that the general from SHIN GODZILLA was also Boss Tanaka from KILL BILL.
November 18, 2025 at 2:25 PM