LOVE LOVE LOVE this show!!! Last night, I saw BILLY ELLIOT the Tony Award-winning best musical at The Opera House and walked out utterly elated-- and surprised! I had seen BILLY ELLIOT when it opened in London years ago--and wasn't impressed, though I remember loving the exhilarating 2000 Universal Pictures movie about ballet and coal [...]
It's the movie we've been waiting for all summer: THE DARK KNIGHT RISES is the stunning culmination of writer/director Christopher Nolan's BATMAN trilogy. Once again, Christian Bale is perfect as the magnetic and mysterious Bruce Wayne, millionaire orphan hero who finds his identity behind a mask, avenging the random torments humanity is heir to. His [...]
Bull Run Restaurant is proud to announce that singer/songwriter extraordinaire RICKIE LEE JONES ("Chuck E.'s In Love") will perform at the venue: Thursday, July 26 at 7:30 PM. THE FIRST PERSON TO RESPOND (via “Contact Joyce” on home page) WITH YOUR FULL NAME WILL WIN A PAIR OF FREE TICKETS! FOR EVERYONE ELSE: Tickets priced [...]
I sat down to write my review of the most anticipated movie of the summer, when news of people gunned down at a midnight screening of THE DARK KNIGHT RISES in Aurora, Colorado --15 miles from Columbine-- hit me like a shot. My daughter was at just such a screening last night, and the thought [...]
Within the first minute of director Oliver Stone's SAVAGES, we hear Blake Lively's character say in voice over about the man we see sexually grinding her to a pulp, that she has "orgasms," but "he has war-gasms." And we know we're off on a testosterone-fueled rampage where men are at war and women-- even when [...]
THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN--a redo of Sam Raimi's 2002 SPIDER-MAN starring Tobey Maguire--is better and worse. Raimi's was a darker, more interesting and resonant film, but Andrew Garfield is my preferred Spidey. Garfield has the narrowest body on the big screen today; when he suits up, he seems barely wider than the silver filaments he casts [...]
Most enlightening. Wonder what Aaron Sorkin has to say about it. Wonder how many of his catch phrases will make it into his new HBO drama " THE NEWSROOM."
In 2010 Mark Wahlberg starred as a tough young boxer in THE FIGHTER. The summer of 2012 finds him knocking the stuffing out of a teddy bear in the box office champ this weekend: TED. The teddy bear movie is a lot raunchier-- and miraculously-- engrossing despite its lunatic premise. In TED, Wahlberg stars as [...]
I've always had a soft spot for Snow White. She was the only fairy tale princess I'd heard of who wasn't blonde, and the Disney cartoon was the first movie I ever saw as a child. I was entranced. I have taken all my fashion cues from her since then. Black haired beauties with white [...]
MOONRISE KINGDOM is one of the best movies this summer --or any other. Filmmaker Wes Anderson has once again assembled a brilliant cast and turned his ironic yet earnest lens on one summer, mid 1960's, in the life of two 12 year-olds who fall in love and run away on an island off New England. [...]
