In a season that features at least one remarkable presidential portrayal--here comes another, and this one definitely the wackier. An Irish/Englishman playing Lincoln is one thing, but America's unofficial court jester and one time king of Caddy Shack is another kettle of acting entirely. Once you get over the shock of seeing Bill Murray as [...]
The most ravishing movie of the season is ANNA KARENINA , novelist Leo Tolstoy's sweeping pageant of love, marriage, passion, family, God, nature, and the constraints of class and society in 19th century Russia. The elegantly beautiful Keira Knightley stars as ANNA KARENINA who falls in love with a young, rich, good-looking cavalry officer, Count Vronsky. [...]
I had the loveliest experience at the theater this week--I wandered into the Paramount Center's intimate Black Box Theater where I found a woman, a grand piano, and a poignant tale of family, the holocaust, survival, and the profound effect of music on a life: THE PIANIST OF WILLESDEN LANE. The star and solo performer [...]
Boston Ballet Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen has taken a crack at an all new production of Tchaikovsky's Christmas Ballet Classic: THE NUTCRACKER! All new sets, costumes, staging, and choreography marked this radiant world premiere production at Boston's Opera House on Friday November 23rd -opening night! I was among the very first people on the planet [...]
If you're in touch with your inner adolescent girl--and I am-- you'll love THE TWILIGHT SAGA:BREAKING DAWN- PART 2. I know it's been savaged in The Globe by Wesley Morris-- and many other critics. But honestly, having Wes review this film is like sending Andre the Giant to a pajama party--it's just not his milieu. [...]
The opening sequence of SKYFALL is a mind-boggling, ass-kicking, death-defying Rube Goldberg variation involving a speeding car, chasing a speeding train, carrying a giant front loader, with 007 and his nemesis-of-the-moment locked in combat and dangling by their fingertips, heading for an overpass, with a sniper looking to take one of them out! I nearly [...]
Onstage at the Huntington Theatre, it's 1977 and a man and a woman, Jerry and Emma, sit drinking in a pub. The conversation is halting, and we find out two things almost immediately-- they were lovers, they are not now. The play--BETRAYAL-- then unfolds in a series of short scenes that flow backwards in time-- [...]
Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker performed by the Mariinsky Ballet Theatre! Don’t miss your chance to share this holiday tradition with your family in movie theaters for one day only on December 3! Tchaikovsky’s holiday classic is being brought to movie theaters nationwide by NCM Fathom Events and More2Screen to celebrate the holiday season. SEE LIST BELOW [...]
What could get me out of bed at the crack of dawn on a cold Saturday morning in November? Not much. But THIS SATURDAY MORNING NOVEMBER 17-- I'll be doing just that to help beat a disease that almost killed me-- twice: OVARIAN CANCER. Join me and THE SOUL SISTER FOUNDATION for the 5th Annual [...]
I have seen LINCOLN-- and he is Daniel Day-Lewis. This is an absolutely flawless performance, which together with Spielberg's direction, Tony Kushner's screenplay, based in part on Doris Kearns Goodwin's book TEAM OF RIVALS, and a treasure trove of vivid performances -- has resulted in one of the finest movies of the year, and one [...]
