DJANGO UNCHAINED is due out on DVD on 4/16. If you're trying to decide whether or not to rent, stream, or buy-- check out my new :30 Second Review feature with video to get the bottom line fast!
LIFE OF PI which earned director ANG LEE an OSCAR this year-- is now out on DVD. If you're trying to decide whether or not to see, check out my new :30 Second Review feature with video to get the bottom line fast!
HURRY! FREE TICKETS for "EXHIBITION: Great Art on Screen" I have 5 pairs of TICKETS for each date listed below. The first 5 people for each date to respond with their FULL NAMES, MAILING ADDRESSES, and EXHIBITION event date (via âContact Joyceâ on the home page) will be notified of a pair of tickets. Tickets will [...]
From Johnny to Jay to Jimmy--once again THE TONIGHT SHOW will be hosted by a guy whose name begins with "J." (So much for Conan) Jimmy Fallon takes over the iconic franchise in 2014 right after NBC concludes its coverage of the Winter Olympics. The show will also move back to New York! Yes. Maybe [...]
The Boston Theater Critics Association (BTCA) -- of which I am president-- is pleased to announce Broadway icon CHITA RIVERA will be the recipient of the 2013 Elliot Norton Lifetime Achievement Award at this yearâs awards ceremony set for Monday May 13 (7pm) at the Paramount Center, 559 Washington Street, Boston! Tickets go on sale [...]
Can't wait another minute to tell you about the Nora Theatre Company's absorbing world premiere production of OPERATION EPSILON by Alan Brody-- the true tale of the top ten nuclear scientists in Nazi Germany captured by the Allies at the end of WWII and hidden away on an elegant English estate. Why? To find out [...]
I've recently experienced the crap shoot that is the college admissions process, though it did not-- unfortunately-- involve either Tina Fey or Paul Rudd. They would have made it infinitely more entertaining as they do here in ADMISSION, an engrossing, quirky comedy that is flawed but is among the better candidates for a movie outing [...]
Why IS Oscar winner Halle Berry in this hackneyed hunk of horror? I know it's a slow time of year, when all the worst films are released-- some worse than others. I went hoping for the best and while not the worst (they could have had the gorgeous Ms. Berry running around in her underwear, [...]
The Huntington Theatre Company has given us a stirring production of the first play by an African-American woman ever produced on Broadway-- 54 years ago: Lorraine Hansberry's landmark "A Raisin in the Sun." The play tells the story of the African-American Younger family living in a cramped apartment on Chicago's South side in 1959. The [...]
CLYBOURNE PARK won the Tony for Best Play in 2012-- and it's hard to imagine a better production than what's onstage at the SpeakEasy right now! Bruce Norris's Pulitzer-Prize winning drama cracks open the racial divide and an earthquake of moral, ethical, familial and economic dilemmas reverberate through the echo chamber of history. The action [...]
