WIN complimentary passes to the Fathom Event: THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST! Enter to win by emailing fathomeventsboston@gmail.com with “EARNEST – JOYCE’S CHOICES” in the subject line. 5 admit 2 winners will be selected and emailed their complimentary passes. Passes will be valid for the Showcase Cinema De Lux Patriot Place in Foxborough MA. For more [...]
In an era of rampant consumerism, a bloated blogosphere, Trump-eted messaging through thousands of media outlets, and pervasive psychic indigestion, it might be difficult to unplug and sit still long enough to hear the quiet simple message of the film A SMALL GOOD THING. It is. Local Academy Award-winning filmmaker Pamela Tanner Boll (BORN INTO BROTHELS 2004) here directs a [...]
THE SECOND MOTHER, Brazil's entry as Best Foreign Language film at the 88th Annual Oscars--is a warm-hearted superbly acted, insightfully scripted tale about motherhood across class boundaries-- that literally knows no bounds. Acclaimed Brazilian actress Regina Case stars as Val, a working class live-in housekeeper/nanny to a wealthy family in Sao Paulo, where she has become like a member of [...]
THE MARTIAN or (How a Geeked-out Gardener Saved His Own Life) stars our most down to earth actor in an out of this world saga that grabs us in its first few minutes, takes us on a wild ride, and features a signature performance in one of the best films of the year to date. MATT DAMON-- yeah, I love him, you love him-- [...]
ENTER FOR A CHANCE TO WIN free passes to the Fathom Event’s The Met Series 2015 Live and Encore one night events! Enter to win by emailing fathomeventsboston@gmail.com with “(Name of production) & JOYCE’S CHOICES” in the subject line. 5 admit 2 winners will be selected and emailed their complimentary passes! The passes will be valid [...]
“Black Mass,” the movie all of Boston has been dying to see — shot right here in our own back yard, where these grizzly events unfolded — is a funereal event. It’s a solid film, with an impressive central performance by Johnny Depp as Boston crime lord James “Whitey” Bulger, but it never rises to the [...]
Documentaries continue to be among the strongest, most absorbing and well-crafted pieces of cinema today. Here's yet another just out in theaters and On Demand: STEVE JOBS: THE MAN IN THE MACHINE, the latest from Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney who has previously applied his critical intelligence and probing eye to Scientology and the Enron scandal. Now he's taken a bite [...]
HURRY! FREE ADVANCE SCREENING for a Sundance Selects’ upcoming release “SLEEPING WITH OTHER PEOPLE”. For the chance to receive two tickets to the screening please email SUNDANCESELECTS56@GMAIL.COM with “SLEEPING” in the subject line! Thursday, September 10, 2015 at 7:00PM in Boston (Theater will be named on your ticket) “SLEEPING WITH OTHER PEOPLE” Running Time: 100 Minutes Rated: [...]
A few more good ones left to see this summer and one circling the drain... See MISTRESS AMERICA! Co-writer/director Noah Baumbach's and his muse/co-writer/star Greta Gerwig's hilarious ode to finding your path through and post college. Freshman Tracy (Lola Kirke) is floundering in her first semester and connects with her soon to be older "stepsister by marriage" Brooke [...]
If you're still casting about for something to see in the dog days of summer, here's my take on a few new ones out or streaming online now! ZIPPER: No, it's not a thriller about a tailer with a yen for alterations. It's drama about a straight arrow politician with an addiction to escorts. The handsome Patrick Wilson looking [...]
