I can't wait for tonight's OSCARS telecast-- earlier than usual-- 7PM on ABC or HULU with Boston's own CONAN O'BRIEN helming the show with pitch perfect acumen! But the fashion show starts on the Red carpet at 6! This year's outcomes are still pretty much up in the air with only one category in the [...]
You are cordially invited to attend a FREE ADVANCE SCREENING of Focus Features release: SONG SUNG BLUE SCREENING DETAILS Wednesday, December 17th, 6:30PM @ AMC BOSTON COMMON TRAILER HERE! RSVP HERE FOR FREE PASSES: LINK https://focusfeaturesscreenings.com/JCSSB Focus Features will release SONG SUNG BLUE In Theaters Nationwide This Christmas Directed By: Craig Brewer Written By: Craig Brewer Producers: John Davis, [...]
Heading into the holidays, here are some stage and screen gems to see NOW! I discussed most of the following on THE CULTURE SHOW (89.7 GBH) with host Jared Bowen. Listen HERE! to our conversation which begins at 20:16 minutes in. (The beginning of our chat referenced the BLACK EYE I was sporting after running [...]
NOW is the time when the most "important" movies of the season are released before the end of the year in order to qualify for Oscars. By "important" I mean big budgets, big stars, big filmmakers, big themes. I have been waiting for something really BIG. It didn't turn out to be Daniel Day-Lewis in [...]
The Oscars Sunday night March 2 were masterfully handled by Brookline's own Conan O'Brien whose intelligence, sense of the absurd, and self-deprecating charm carried us through the wild and wacky tonal shifts of a long evening. He sang and danced and cracked us up, managed a heartfelt tribute to L.A. firefighters, and a straight up, [...]
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I know this about A COMPLETE UNKNOWN: Timothee Chalamet nails it. The new biopic charts poet, musician, Nobel Prize-winner Bob Dylan’s subterranean landing in the middle of the last century, like a depth charge still rippling through time and cultural space. Just voted BEST ACTOR by the Boston Society of Film Critics, Chalamet delivers the [...]
I was dreading seeing it. SO much hype. SO long (2hours 40)and that's just Part 1! And took SO long (more than a decade) to get made. I ADORE the musical and those songs. And our beloved local author Gregory Maguire who imagined more about these two witches (who still haunt my dreams) than I [...]
THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES is a rarity -- a multidimensional musical that speaks to this moment with all of the nuances of a real life lived, and at the heart of it a thrilling, complex, masterful performance by Kristin Chenoweth. That this world premiere musical is also now debuting in our own backyard at Boston's [...]
I've seen what feels like a thousand movies in the last three weeks, the result of a tidal wave of year-end releases before the holidays and in time to qualify for the Oscars while remaining fresh in viewers' minds. Not all of the following are Oscar-worthy, but here's my take on a few you might [...]
