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Jan 14 2013

A HEAD-SPINNING GOLDEN GLOBES 2013!

By |2013-01-15T22:37:48-05:00January 14th, 2013|Celebrity Interviews, Joyce's Choices, More A & E|0 Comments

My head's STILL spinning from Sunday night's 70th installment of THE GOLDEN GLOBES! What a wild night. BEN AFFLECK trumped the OSCAR snub by winning-- much to his and everyone else's amazement-- BEST DIRECTOR and BEST PICTURE (drama) for ARGO. He then forgot to thank producer George Clooney with whom he was sitting all night. [...]

Jan 10 2013

OSCAR NOMINATIONS: SNUBS & HUGS

By |2013-01-10T23:54:40-05:00January 10th, 2013|Action & Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Epic & Historical, Movies, Musicals, Romance, Thriller, War|0 Comments

I set my alarm (as a late riser, I'm always on L.A. time) and was up at the crack of 8:30 to hear Emma Stone and this year's Oscar Host Seth MacFarlane announce the nominations-- when I was blown out of my breakfast nook by the stupefying news that Kathryn Bigelow and Ben Affleck were [...]

Nov 05 2012

TRIBECA FILMFEST GOES TO–DOHA?!!!

By |2014-11-14T23:52:03-05:00November 5th, 2012|Movies|0 Comments

If you missed it at film festivals in Tribeca, or Toronto, or Sundance--you can catch it in DOHA! The tiny but super-wealthy Middle Eastern emirate of QATAR- of which DOHA is the capital- is importing western-and world culture-- like it's going out of style. Several US colleges and universities now have campuses in DOHA, among [...]

Oct 12 2012

MOVIE REVIEW: ARGO

By |2012-10-12T00:27:52-04:00October 12th, 2012|Movies, Thriller|0 Comments

Ben Affleck has done it behind the camera again-- directed a first rate thriller! It's sleeker, sharper, and surer than his previous directorial work-- and it's already being touted as a possible Best Picture nominee: ARGO.  It's a movie about making a movie, a story within a story, and as such is a great cinematic [...]

Oct 08 2012

FALL MOVIES: WHAT I CAN’T WAIT TO SEE!

By |2014-11-14T23:52:03-05:00October 8th, 2012|Action & Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Epic & Historical, Fantasy, Movies|0 Comments

The silly season is over. Now it’s time for some serious fun—and that means FALL MOVIES with Oscar in mind. Here's what I can't wait to see! (Check out the link to my article on Page 68 of EXHALE Magazine!) ARGO is directed by and stars Boston's own Ben Affleck! (I recently chatted [...]

Oct 03 2012

FREE ADVANCE SCREENING: “ARGO”

By |2014-11-15T00:42:39-05:00October 3rd, 2012|Expired Free Advance Screenings|0 Comments

You are cordially invited to a FREE ADVANCE SCREENING for a Warner Brothers Pictures’ release set to open in theaters on 10/12/12: “ARGO” Tuesday, October 9, 2012 at 7:00PM in Boston. (Theater will be named on your ticket.) The film is rated “R”   Running Time: 120 Minutes Synopsis: Based on real events, the dramatic thriller [...]

Sep 10 2012

BEN AFFLECK AND I CHAT: SNEAK PEEK OF “ARGO”

By |2014-11-14T23:52:03-05:00September 10th, 2012|Celebrity Interviews, Drama, Movies, Thriller|0 Comments

Last night I interviewed Boston's own Ben Affleck in person before a live audience at the AMC BOSTON COMMON CINEMAS immediately following a 7PM special screening of his latest film, ARGO! Ben stars in and directs this taut thriller about a little known chapter in the Iranian hostage crisis that put the nail in the [...]