I am once again honored to be contributing a piece to Women Writers Week at ROGEREBERT.COM My subject? Bill Cosby. I had been wanting to write about Cosby for quite some time. I have a story to tell about my own encounter with the man, but I wasn't sure if I really wanted to share [...]
HURRY! GET PASSES to FREE ADVANCE SCREENING of AMAZON PRIME VIDEO release of "LUCY AND DESI"! Tuesday March 1 7PM Landmark Kendall Square Cinema For the chance to download tickets to this special advance screening of "Lucy And Desi" please visit http://amazonscreenings.com/joyceslucyanddesibostonscreening Release date: Exclusively on Prime Video Friday March 4, 2022 MPAA [...]
THE BOSTON SOCIETY OF FILM CRITICS (BSFC) of which I have been a proud member since 1981, has once again voted its year- end awards, and it only took us 7 hours, on zoom, with 27 members participating. Since we began gathering in the livingroom of the late great David Brudnoy all those years ago, [...]
Some films really stick, and THE BEATLES GET BACK, the three-part "event" directed by Peter Jackson ("The Lord of the Rings") now streaming on Disney+ has seeped into my bones and will stay there forever. Cameras everywhere capture EVERYTHING. In the days and weeks leading up to their final fantastic and at times absurdly funny [...]
HURRY! Get passes to FREE ADVANCE SCREENING of THE FRENCH DISPATCH! Starring EVERYBODY! Tuesday, 10/19, 7:00PM at AMC Boston Common To get passes please click on the following link: https://www.searchlightscreenings.com/JoycesChoicesTFD Release Date: 10/22/2021 Runtime: 1h 43m MPAA Rating: R Directed by: Wes Anderson Screenplay by: Wes Anderson Story by: Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola & Hugo [...]
I have finally seen THE movie of the summer-- and perhaps the year: SUMMER OF SOUL (... Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised). "The Roots" drummer turned filmmaker Questlove has excavated buried treasure and turned it into a divine revelation of a feature documentary. The Harlem Culture Festival took place on 6 nights, [...]
BREWMANCE is a tale of a love affair with beer-- but not my father's beer, and Chet and his brothers, my uncles, LOVED beer. They would sit around the backyard at all the family gatherings--barbecues to baptisms--drinking cases of the stuff. A cousin once drove in from out of state for a family funeral arriving [...]
After a two month pandemic-induced delay, the OSCARS will happen this SUNDAY NIGHT April 25 at 8 p.m. (ET/5 p.m. PT) on ABC. The 93rd annual Academy Awards honors all things movies! I have reported live from THE red carpet over the course of 20 years as the A & E Anchor for WBZ-TV (CBS- [...]
I have loved Tina Turner from the first moment I saw her perform. It may have been her very first TV appearance in 1960 on "American Bandstand." I surely saw her one and only appearance with the Ike & Tina Turner Revue on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1970. I had no context for what [...]
This Sunday December 13, the BSFC gathered for a meeting like no other: 7 HOURS on zoom where we applied 2020 hindsight to the hundreds of movies we were able to screen online this past year. We discussed, and kibitzed, and argued and discussed some more as we VOTED our year-end winners in 15 categories. [...]
