The critics have spoken-- and women ruled the Boston Society of Film Critics awards! "Little Women," much of it shot in and around Concord and Boston, topped the list of winners at the 39th installment of the BSFC awards, 2019. We gathered all day Sunday, December 15 to vote the best in 15 [...]
HURRY! FREE ADVANCE SCREENING for a Universal Pictures’ release “CATS” For the chance to receive two tickets to this screening please visit: https://forms.gle/59Kw4TGqKYzcMMEt6 Tuesday, December 17, 2019 at 7:00 PM in Boston (Theatre will be named on your ticket) “CATS” Running Time: 109-minutes Rated: PG Opening Date: December 20, 2019 Cast: James Corden, [...]
HURRY! FREE advance screening for Warner Brothers release: RICHARD JEWELL Tuesday, December 10th at AMC Boston Common at 7:30 PM! To download passes: https://www.wbtickets.com/BaALO30972 **Please note, seating is first come, first served and NOT guaranteed. Get there early! Each pass will admit TWO.** Director: Clint Eastwood Writer: Screenplay by Billy Ray based on the Vanity Fair article “American Nightmare - The Ballad of Richard Jewell” by [...]
Want some theater to digest this Thanksgiving weekend? Here's my take on what you might like! QUIXOTE NUEVO--This delightful new adaptation of Cervantes' "Don Quixote" by Octavio Solis is an illuminating, funny, heartbreaking, and wholly relevant musical adventure, and the first time I have fully connected with this classic saga of a hero tilting at [...]
HURRY! FREE ADVANCE SCREENING for an Amazon Studios’ release “THE AERONAUTS” For the chance to receive two tickets to this screening please visit: https://www.amazonscreenings.com/JoyceAeronautics Monday, December 2, 2019 at 7:00 PM in Boston (Theatre will be named on your ticket) “THE AERONAUTS” Running Time: 101-minutes Rated: PG-13 Opening Date: December 6, 2019 Cast: Felicity Jones, Eddie [...]
"I heard you paint houses." It's an ominous line uttered in the first hour of the film, and the title of Charles Brandt's best-selling biography of the "housepainter" who may have killed Jimmy Hoffa, on which the film is based. My father actually did paint houses, and died of a heart attack while doing so. [...]
The days are short. The holidays are long. You need time to cool down after an avalanche of obligations and kick back with family, friends or just by your delightful self, this dark and lovely season. Here's a winter wonderland of ways to enjoy the chill--this article also appearing in EXHALE MAGAZINE! Settle Into A [...]
HURRY! FREE ADVANCE SCREENING for a Warner Brothers Pictures’ release “THE GOOD LIAR” For the chance to receive two tickets to this screening please visit: https://www.wbtickets.com/UgPsY16995 Monday, November 11, 2019 at 7:00 PM in Boston (Theatre will be named on your ticket) “THE GOOD LIAR” Running Time: 109-minutes Rated: R Opening Date: November 15, 2019 Cast: [...]
There is a barrage of local theater on stages in and around Boston-- here's my take! Photo: Maggie Hall Photography ADMISSIONS-- Joshua Harmon's adroit take on one of the most incendiary issues of the day: diversity at an elite prep school. The play heats up on ignition when Maureen Keiller as admissions officer [...]
No doubt you've seen my review of PARASITE, the most well-conceived, executed, and surprising movie out there now, but here's my take on a few more--worthy in whole, in part, or not at all... These films represent my wide-ranging interest in all kinds of movies, even as fewer and fewer of them are now playing [...]
