HURRY! FREE ADVANCE SCREENING for a Warner Brothers Pictures’ release “PADDINGTON 2” For the chance to receive two tickets to the screening please go to: https://www.wbtickets.com/oEEQS64996 Saturday, January 6, 2018 at 10:00 AM in Somerville (Theater will be named on your ticket) “PADDINGTON 2” Running Time: 104-minutes Rated: “PG” Opening Date: January 12, 2018 Cast: Hugh [...]
They didn't make my Five Fave Films of 2017 so far, nor are they all the Boston area Film Critics choices, but here’s another batch of films, like cookies for the holidays-- yummy & crummy; some to be savored, some to be consumed guiltily in the dark, and some cookies, well, should be tossed. [...]
HURRY! FREE ADVANCE SCREENING for an STX Entertainment release “MOLLY’S GAME." For the chance to receive two tickets to the screening in BOSTON on Wednesday, December 20, 2017 at 6:30 PM (Theater will be named on your ticket) VISIT: https://stxtickets.com/zJxjw91186 Details: “MOLLY’S GAME” Running Time: 140-minutes Rated: “R” Opening Date: December 25, 2017 Cast: Jessica Chastain, [...]
HURRY! FREE ADVANCE SCREENING for a Columbia Pictures' release “JUMANJI: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE”. For the chance to receive two tickets to the screening please visit: https://www.sonyscreenings.com/RSaSq78658 Monday, December 18, 2017 at 7:00 PM in Boston (Theater will be named on your ticket) “JUMANJI: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE” Running Time: 2-hours and 2-minutes Rated: “PG-13” Opening [...]
HURRY! FREE ADVANCE SCREENING for a Columbia Pictures’ release “ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD”. For the chance to receive two tickets for TONIGHT TUESDAY's screening at PROVIDENCE PLACE 7PM VISIT: https://www.sonyscreenings.com/BABni87703 “ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD” Running Time: TBA Rated: “R” Opening Date: December 25, 2017 Cast: Academy Award nominee Michelle Williams (Manchester By The [...]
It's been another tough year for me at the movies. The swamp of desperately-plotted comedy and superhero sequels clogged with action sludge-- pulled me down, but not out. I hung on until late fall, when the cinematic floodgates opened to release a wave of excellent movies I'm still riding. I have not yet seen PHANTOM [...]
It happened this weekend: The BOSTON SOCIETY OF FILM CRITICS (of which I am a veteran member) met for the 37th time and voted Paul Thomas Anderson's PHANTOM THREAD (which a significant number of critics have not yet seen) starring Daniel Day-Lewis in his ostensible farewell performance as a fictional couturier, the BEST FILM [...]
photo: Peter Paradise URBAN NUTCRACKER Boston is pleased to offer Joyce’s Choices followers A CHANCE TO WIN one of four Family-4 packs (4 tickets!) to see the Tony Williams Ballet Company production of Urban Nutcracker at John Hancock Hall on FRIDAY DECEMBER 22 at 7:30pm! The show is SO much fun! It's MORE [...]
Here's what to rush out and see now: THE COLOR PURPLE!! WOW. I saw a local production of this several years ago and it left me cold. The production now onstage at the SHUBERT THEATRE is on fire! A jubilant prayer of a musical which won Tonys for best revival of a musical in 2015, [...]
"Pious, pompous, puffed up twits" beware: the Huntington Theatre Company's TARTUFFE is a screamingly funny, jubilant debunking of fakery in all its forms! Moliere's 17th century satire anticipated "the Enlightenment" as reason trumps religious pretense in this tale of a hypocritical holy man Tartuffe (actor/comedian Brett Gelman "Stranger Things") who hoodwinks a gentleman and head of [...]
