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FREE ADVANCE SCREENING: “BLACK OR WHITE”
You are cordially invited to a FREE ADVANCE SCREENING for a Relativity Media release set to open in theaters on 1/30/15: “BLACK OR WHITE” Monday, January 26, 2015 at 7:00PM in Boston. (Theater will be
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MOVIE: SELMA
SELMA puts you there–right in the middle of the racism at the heart of these United States. Many of us lived it in the sixties, in the deep south with its segregated restaurants, hotels, and
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MOVIE: OSCAR NOMINATIONS 2015!
The race is on! Actor Chris Pine and Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs have let loose the 2015 Oscar nominations! Who’s in? Who’s out? Here are the top five categories and my very preliminary two
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THEATER: RED HOT PATRIOT
One can just imagine what the late Molly Ivins’ reaction to the murder of French journalists by islamic terrorists bent on silencing Charlie Hebdo’s brand of political satire might have been. The late Texas
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MY TEN BEST MOVIES OF 2014!
BOYHOOD: Richard Linklater’s extraordinary “12 years a film” feat! He directed the same cast over a dozen years and captured the ephemeral truth about one boy’s childhood and growing up in a broken home. It’s a “meta” experience for
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THEATER: NECESSARY MONSTERS
There’s a world premiere onstage right now at SpeakEasy Stage Company that rattled my cage; in fact, it’s staged in a cage, the audience peering in from either side as NECESSARY MONSTERS took shape before
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MOVIE: THE IMITATION GAME
Having seen THE IMITATION GAME starring Benedict Cumberbatch, I now consider myself an official Cumbercookie, I mean Cumberbunny, er Cumberbabe– or perhaps, most aptly, because I am of a critical bent, “Cumberbitch.” I am late
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WIN TICKETS: BOSTON GAY MEN’S CHORUS’ “NOEL”
ENTER for a chance to win complimentary tickets to the Dec. 21, 8pm performance of Boston Gay Men’s Chorus’ “NOEL” at New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall. The BGMC puts “The Merry” into Christmas! NOEL performances are 12/19, 12/20 and 12/21
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THEATER: JESUS CHRIST, IT’S CHRISTMAS!
Hey look. I have not blasphemed. I am just quoting the title of the latest holiday offering now onstage at the Ramrod Center for the Performing Arts, home to Ryan Landry and those rascally Gold Dust Orphans!
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THEATER: O.P.C.
You got yer ADD, yer ADHD, yer PTSD, yer OCD and now yer O.P.C. at the A.R. T.! The title stands for “Obsessive Political Correctness,” a syndrome that plagues the compulsively sensitive, and finds
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