I roused myself at the crack of 8AM this morning, and waded through the annoying byplay of hosts Tracee Ellis Ross (Black-ish) and Leslie Jordan (Will & Grace) to hear the announcement of the 94th OSCAR nominations and was happy to see so many of this year's best films and performances recognized by the Academy. [...]
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 [...]
The movies I'm dying to see this fall are NO TIME TO DIE-- the last Danny Craig James Bond flick set to open in theaters Friday October 8; THE LAST DUEL co-starring Adam Driver and that dynamic Boston duo Matt Damon and Ben Affleck who co-wrote this medieval tale due out October 15; and DUNE [...]
HURRY! GET FREE TIX TO ADVANCE SCREENING OF UNIVERSAL PICTURES RELEASE: "DEAR EVAN HANSEN"! SEPTEMBER 21 at 7 PM @ AMC Boston Common For the chance to download tickets to this special advance screening of DEAR EVAN HANSEN please visit: https://gofobo.com/JoycesChoicesDEH Release Date: In Theaters September 24, 2021 Running time: 2h 17min [...]
HURRY! GET TIX TO FREE ADVANCE SCREENING OF AMAZON PRIME RELEASE "Everybody's Talking About Jamie"! Tuesday, September 7, 7:00PM, Coolidge Corner Theater For the chance to download tickets to this special advance screening of "Everybody's Talking About Jamie" please visit: https://amazonscreenings.com/JamieJoyce Opening Date: 9/10 (Coolidge Corner Theater) 9/17 (Amazon Prime) Rating: PG-13 Run Time: 120 minutes Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXhpTZeG4eg [...]
HURRY! You are cordially invited to a FREE ADVANCE SCREENING of CINDERELLA starring CAMILA CABELLO! Tuesday 8/31, 7:00PM, Showcase Cinema de Lux Woburn, 25 Middlesex Canal Parkway, Woburn, MA For the chance to download tickets to this special advance screening of CINDERELLA please visit: https://amazonscreenings.com/CinderellaJoyce Release Date: Available on Amazon Prime Video on 9/3 Rating: PG [...]
A critic's job is never done. I am always trying to learn more and deliver ever more nuanced reviews of the work I see. As a white critic, I am always trying to see beyond the lens of my whiteness. In reviewing IN THE HEIGHTS I didn't understand the lack of representation of Afro-Latino characters [...]
Seven years before the Pulitzer Prize-winning global phenomenon that is HAMILTON opened on Broadway in 2015 and blew the roof off staged musicals forever, creator Lin-Manuel Miranda's first Broadway musical the Tony Award-winning IN THE HEIGHTS opened in the same theater in 2008. Now, like "Hamilton," it's also a movie, a glorious movie more powerful [...]
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 [...]
At the end of 2020, a flood of movies was released all at once and it's time to catch up with the best. Among them, is a film based on Tony Award-winning playwright August Wilson's "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" starring Oscar-winner Viola Davis and the late Chadwick Boseman in his final film performance which might [...]
