Bill Murray is the screen's funniest, most endearing curmudgeon. Here in ST. VINCENT as the title character, he's all pockmarked and rumply, biting the head off every cheerful do-gooder who has the nerve to make conversation. But that title is part of the problem, pretty much giving away the ending and any hope for subtlety. I had been lead to believe otherwise by the first two thirds [...]
It's the one film I have been dying to see all year. I'm talking GONE GIRL, based on the best seller by Gillian Flynn who also wrote the screenplay. I love a great thriller, love Ben Affleck and a beautiful woman, in this case a stunning Rosamund Pike who's riveting here. There's 145 minutes to get lost in, and [...]
WIN A PAIR OF TICKETS TO SCREENINGS OF "HISTORIC 'VIKINGS' AND 'POMPEII', EXHIBITIONS FROM THE BRITISH MUSEUM", EACH FOR ONLY ONE NIGHT IN OCTOBER Fathom Events and the U.K.’s More2Screen are partnering to present two extraordinary cinematic experiences from the British Museum in London that shine a bright light on two cultures – Viking and [...]
Imagine Jane Fonda as a Jewish mother. If you can do that, you'll love THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU. Now imagine that Fonda's children are Tina Fey, Jason Bateman, Adam Driver and Corey Stoll, siblings who all return home --with spouses, kids, girlfriends in tow--after their father has died, and sit shiva for seven [...]
We're the generation that went BOOM between 1946 and 1964-- and the noise hasn't stopped since. From Billy Joel to Maria Shriver, Samuel L. Jackson to Rosie O'Donnell and Deepak Chopra, the last of us is turning "50" and PBS is set to air a documentary highlighting 19 famous boomers who've shaped the world! AMERICAN [...]
Win a pair of tickets to the one-night-only event MAYHEM: MAYWEATHER VS. MAIDANA 2! MAYHEM: MAYWEATHER VS. MAIDANA 2 will be shown in select theatres on Saturday, September 13th at 8:00PM live from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. For a chance to win a pair of complimentary passes to the Showcase Patriot Place in [...]
It's time for the stars of summer --Godzilla, the Guardians of the Galaxy, those rebellious apes, and Tom Cruise-- to make way for the more adult pleasures of FALL. Things are getting serious now as movies designed to jolt the brain as much as the blood pressure are set to hit the big screen, many of [...]
It was August 11--my mother's birthday, and the day we couldn't wait for--the beginning of our yearly retreat to Martha's Vineyard, a longed for respite from what ails us all year, a sunny bright day that promised a happy ending. Somewhere, thousands of miles away, a man beloved by the world, and the cause of [...]
HURRY! YOU COULD WIN TICKETS to a documentary presented by Knitting Factory Entertainment, OkayAfrica and OkayPlayer: “FINDING FELA” THE FIRST 4 PEOPLE TO RESPOND (via “Contact Joyce” on home page) WITH THEIR FULL NAME AND EMAIL ADDRESS WILL BE NOTIFIED OF A PASS FOR TWO…REDEEMABLE AT THE BOX OFFICE… FOR ANY SHOW DURING THE RUN [...]
The best movie I've seen all summer is LIFE ITSELF, a documentary about one of the most formidable movie critics in history-- and certainly the most famous, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and conqueror of cancer: Roger Ebert. The disease killed him, but Roger won. At the beginning of his memoir, Roger wrote, "I was [...]
