HURRY! FREE ADVANCE SCREENING for a Weinstein Company release “GOLD”. For the chance to receive two tickets to the screening please visit: https://www.gofobo.com/GOLDJC Monday, January 23, 2017 at 7:00 PM in Boston (Theater will be named on your ticket) “GOLD” Running Time: 121 Minutes Rated: “R” Opening Date: January 27, 2017 Synopsis: GOLD is the epic tale [...]
"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" George chants low in the darkness. "I am, George. I am," intones a hollow-eyed Martha in the Lyric Stage's merciless yet moving production of Albee's classic. As the light slowly fades on this bitter couple in the final scene, I felt a chill. The moment is forever seared in my mind, a moment of sheer existential terror and loneliness in a production not to be missed. Edward Albee's three [...]
What a FASCINATING week for theater in town—I saw three plays this week: a one-man show, one classic, and one Tony-nominated play having its New England premiere all of which left me thinking, laughing, scratching my head, and utterly engaged. You gotta love theater! Here goes. SpeakEasy Stage is presenting the New England premiere of [...]
HURRY! FREE ADVANCE SCREENING for an IMAX screening of a Paramount Pictures release: “xXx: RETURN OF XANDER CAGE” For the chance to receive two tickets to the screening please go to https://www.gofobo.com/JoycesChoicesxXxBoston Wednesday, January 18, 2017 at 8:00 PM in Boston (Theater will be named on your ticket) “xXx: RETURN OF XANDER CAGE” Running Time: [...]
HURRY! FREE ADVANCE SCREENING for a Weinstein Company release “THE FOUNDER” For the chance to receive two tickets to the screening please go to https://www.gofobo.com/FOUNDERJC Wednesday, January 18, 2017 at 7:00 PM in Boston (Theater will be named on your ticket) “THE FOUNDER” Running Time: 115 minutes Rated: “PG-13” Opening Date: January 20, 2017 Synopsis: Directed [...]
HIDDEN FIGURES brings a hidden gem of a true story to the big screen with a top notch cast in a movie that’s not as groundbreaking as the tale it tells—but accomplishes what it sets out to do with verve, humor, warmth and intelligence. “Hidden Figures” adapted from the book by Margot Lee Shetterly will [...]
Here's a rewarding artistic excursion for the new year-- an erotic crime thriller two ways, one onscreen, the other onstage. Both are based on the devilishly byzantine novel and Mann Booker finalist by Sarah Waters called "FINGERSMITH." (Also a 2005 BBC mini series.) The staged version called FINGERSMITH and adapted by Alexa Junge is now in its final week at [...]
HURRY! FREE ADVANCE SCREENING for a Warner Brothers’ Pictures release: “LIVE BY NIGHT” For the chance to receive two tickets to the screening please visit: https://www.wbtickets.com/nKwDE14434 Monday, January 9, 2017 at 7:00 PM in Boston (Theater will be named on your ticket) “LIVE BY NIGHT” Running Time: 129 minutes Rated: “R” Opening Date: January 13, [...]
PATRIOTS DAY--Pointless. If you lived through the Boston Marathon bombings, nothing compares. For all its good intentions and attempts at verisimilitude, this film adds nothing and mutes the impact of that tragic week in Boston's history. It also traffics in some pretty annoying cliches: Boston cops are, apparently, the most foul-mouthed in the country; and only the same roster of actors [...]
This was a strange year for movies. I could barely find a thing to watch all summer, and then was inundated with a flood of excellent features in the Fall. No one mainstream film commanded our attention, but smaller, isolated gems shown brightly on a far-flung horizon. ONE of these for me stood far above the rest. Herewith my top five films, in no particular order AFTER my favorite film [...]
