YOU ARE INVITED TO A FREE ADVANCE SCREENING OF UNIVERSAL PICTURES RELEASE "SHE SAID." Screening Details: Tuesday, November 15th - AMC Boston Common 19 – 7:00 PM Run Time: 129 minutes Rating: R (Restricted – Under 17 Requires Accompanying Parent or Adult Guardian) for language and descriptions of sexual assault. To claim your passes RSVP Here: https://gofobo.com/mJWpC95120 [...]
The theater season is off and running! Here's my take on three productions that kicked the Fall into high gear! The newly renovated Huntington Theatre has returned to its physical home on Huntington Ave and its artistic home with August Wilson's JOE TURNER'S COME AND GONE, the first of his plays produced by the Huntington [...]
Two towering female performances have recently emerged which I can't get out of my head: Ana De Armas as Marilyn Monroe in BLONDE and Cate Blanchett as a world renowned conductor in TAR. I predict we'll see them both nominated for BEST ACTRESS OSCARS this season. Their methods and their madnesses are uniquely suited to [...]
Here's what I've seen onstage lately-- let this be a guide and a warning. DRACULA mounted by The Umbrella Stage Company in Concord, is seasonally appropriate with a twist. This version is playwright Kate Hamill's take on Bram Stoker's original which she dubs "A feminist revenge fantasy, really." I love a little Dracula and some [...]
YOU ARE INVITED TO A FREE ADVANCE SCREENING OF UNITED ARTISTS RELEASE "TILL." Tuesday, October 18, 7:00PM, AMC Boston Common RSVP HERE: https://uareleasingscreenings.com/TillJoycesChoices SYNOPSIS: Till is a profoundly emotional and cinematic film about the true story of Mamie Till Mobley’s relentless pursuit of justice for her 14 year old son, Emmett Till, who, in [...]
YOU ARE INVITED TO A FREE ADVANCE SCREENING OF UNIVERSAL PICTURES RELEASE: "TICKET TO PARADISE" Tuesday, October 18th at AMC Boston Common at 7:00 PM. FOR FREE PASSES RSVP HERE: https://gofobo.com/ynAyC36789 Synopsis Academy Award® winners George Clooney and Julia Roberts reunite on the big screen as exes who find themselves on a shared mission to stop [...]
What a dull summer at the movies. TOP GUN was a rousing entertainment-- just what I wanted to kick off the season. But I was soon disappointed by Jordan Peele's peculiarly flat horror-western-sci-fi mashup NOPE, despite a bunch of interesting ideas that never coalesced. NOPE took us back to the beginnings of film, [...]
TAKE YOUR PICK! TWO FREE ADVANCE SCREENINGS: 20th CENTURY STUDIOS "AMSTERDAM" or Neon's "TRIANGLE OF SADNESS" BOTH on Wednesday, October 5th at 7 PM at AMC Boston Common! DETAILS for "Amsterdam" RSVP here for free passes to AMSTERDAM: https://gofobo.com/EnJhh21994 About AMSTERDAM From 20th Century Studios, New Regency, and acclaimed filmmaker David O. Russell comes [...]
SPEAKEASY STAGE has just kicked off its season with perhaps the most daring, intelligently written, and eye-opening production onstage right now in progressive theater circles: HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING. The play is a sharp, densely-written theatrical exploration of conservatism, specifically the rift between old and new Catholic conservatives as they debate the hot topics [...]
THE HUNTINGTON opened its fall season with the musical "SING STREET" based on the 2016 movie by writer/director John Carney. It's a coming of age story set in 1980's Dublin about a teenage boy who falls for a beautiful mysterious girl who calls herself a "model." So he claims to have a band and then [...]
