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, âCumberbitch.â I am late to this party and thus not alone in Cumberland whose boundaries have been spreading since the actor hit our shores in [...]
ENTER for a chance to win complimentary tickets to the Dec. 21, 8pm performance of Boston Gay Menâs Chorusâ âNOELâ at New England Conservatoryâs Jordan Hall. The BGMC puts "The Merry" into Christmas! NOEL performances are 12/19, 12/20 and 12/21 at 8pm and tickets are also available for purchase at www.bgmc.org. The first 10 entries will win 2 tickets each to the Dec. 21, [...]
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! And I must say, the title alone had me in hysterics. As a lapsed and relapsed Catholic who still retains more than [...]
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 its expression in a world premiere production by author, activist, & Tony-Award winning playwright of "The Vagina Monologues" Eve Ensler, who [...]
Who cares about the OSCARS-- right now. In fact, regional groups like the BOSTON SOCIETY OF FILM CRITICS have been known to have a major influence on which way the wind blows at Oscar time. So listen up fans, cinephiles and Oscar-ites: WE HAVE SPOKEN. We met today at the hippest hotel in town the REVERE HOTEL [...]
ENTER for a chance to win complimentary passes to a Fathom Event: âThe Royal Ballet: Aliceâs Adventures in Wonderlandâ at the Showcase Patriot Place in Foxborough. The Royal Balletâs one-night only showing of ALICEâS ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND, is being streamed live to theaters across the United States at 7:00pm on Tuesday, December 16. To Enter [...]
You are cordially invited to a FREE ADVANCE SCREENING for a Warner Brothers Pictures release set to open in theaters on 12/17/14: âTHE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES" Wednesday, December 10, 2014 at 7:00PM in Boston. (Theater will be named on your ticket.) Rated: PG-13 Running Time: 144 Minutes Synopsis: From Academy Award-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson [...]
It's a sad, strange story, and it's hard to believe it's true: FOXCATCHER is a tale of three men-- two Olympic wrestling brothers, and the very rich man who covets them. Channing Tatum  and Mark Ruffalo play Mark and Dave Schultz who won Olympic gold medals in wrestling, Dave also acting as trainer to his younger brother Mark. Enter  Steve Carell as John [...]
You are cordially invited to a FREE ADVANCE SCREENING for a Weinstein Company release set to open in theaters on 12/12/14: âTHE IMITATION GAMEâ Thursday, December 11, 2014 at 7:00PM in Boston. (Theater will be named on your ticket.) Rated: PG-13 Running Time: 114 Minutes Synopsis: During the winter of 1952, British authorities entered the home [...]
As the curtain rises, Cicely Tyson as Mother Carrie Watts sits framed in a window by moonlight, awake but dreaming of her long ago home in a little texas town called Bountiful. In the next room her fractious family sleeps-- a frustrated, striving son named Ludie (Blair Underwood) and his pretty, nagging wife Jessie Mae (Vanessa Williams). Together, [...]
