You are cordially invited to a FREE ADVANCE SCREENING for a Lionsgate release set to open in theaters on 10/21/2016 “AMERICAN PASTORAL” Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at 7:00PM in Boston. (Theater will be named on your ticket.) Rating: R Running Time: 108 Minutes Cast: Ewan McGregor, Jennifer Connelly, Dakota Fanning, Peter Riegert, Rupert Evans, Uzo Aduba, [...]
Movies and plays take most of my time, so I don't have as much time for books. Thus, "The Girl on the Train" the movie, starring Emily Blunt and based on the runaway best seller by Paula Hawkins, was a complete surprise! The trailer is a grabber and I couldn't wait to see the film. When I did, [...]
You are cordially invited to a FREE ADVANCE SCREENING for a 20th Century Fox release set to open in theaters on 10/21/2016 “KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES” Thursday, October 13, 2016 at 5:00PM in Boston. (Theater will be named on your ticket.) Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 101 Minutes Cast: Zach Galifianakis, Jon Hamm, Isla Fisher, Gal [...]
A pair of movies now playing at a cineplex near you wear their agendas on their sleeves: each re-tells a true story, skewers its villains, and brings its audience right up close to the imagined scenes of the action whose outcome we already know. Director/co-writer Oliver Stone's SNOWDEN comes with a careful central performance by Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Edward Snowden, computer wiz and infrastructure analyst for the National [...]
QUEEN OF KATWE is based on one of those impossible but true stories of triumph which has found life on the big screen. Thanks to a cast of talented, affecting actors and a smart, compassionate, and inspiring story teller behind the camera, we learn of an impoverished young girl from Uganda who is introduced to the game of chess-- and becomes [...]
ENTER TO WIN passes to the first live event of THE MET 2016-17 Series, TRISTAN UND ISOLDE! Send an email to fathomeventsboston@gmail.com with (TRISTAN/JOYCE) in the subject line. Please send your full name, age and email address! FREE PASSES will be valid at Showcase Cinema de Lux Legacy Place. A few lucky winners will receive passes to the [...]
HURRY!! FREE ADVANCE SCREENING of a Bleecker Street upcoming release: “DENIAL” PLEASE SEND AN EMAIL TO DenialBoston@gmail.com AND 100 WINNERS WILL BE EMAILED A PASS FOR TWO! ALL ENTRANTS SHOULD INCLUDE “JOYCE’S CHOICES” IN THE EMAIL SUBJECT LINE! Wednesday, October 5, 2016 at 7:00 PM at a Boston Theater. (Theater will be named when notified.) [...]
I'm exhausted. A few nights ago I watched 5 French Canadians called MACHINE DE CIRQUE high on guts and testosterone, hurtle through 90 minutes of breathtaking (mine and theirs) acrobatics, juggling, and jocularity using bicycles, trapezes, seesaws, unicycles, ropes and poles, scaffolding and towels--yes towels--which may have been most breathtaking of all. The towels were all that kept them from being in the "all together" and me [...]
Still catching my breath and catching up with three more on the boards to check out: REGULAR SINGING at NEW REP THEATRE takes the final bite out of the four-part “The Apple Family: Scenes from Life in the Country ” cycle of plays by Tony Award-winning playwright Richard Nelson. We now know this family intimately as [...]
Here's a tough assignment, but a worthy one- and you have only two more chances to experience it: See BLASTED, presented by Off the Grid Theatre Company. John Kuntz directs a fearless three person cast who in 90 minutes rip our guts out. BLASTED by Sarah Kane forces us to confront the cruelties human beings inflict on one another, in intimate [...]
