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 [...]
The two events I recommend here are among the most joyous presentations of the season, and are just as, if not more effective in virtual form! One marks its 5oth ANNIVERSARY this year, that medieval pageant celebrating the winter solstice known as THE CHRISTMAS REVELS. The second has been a classic on page, stage, and [...]
