See THE MET OPERA live onscreen at the movies! JoycesChoices followers have been invited by FATHOM EVENTS to enter to win FREE passes to attend THE MET LIVE: LA DONNA DEL LAGO- live on March 14 and/or the encore performance on March 18. Bel canto superstars Joyce DiDonato and Juan Diego Flórez join forces for this Rossini showcase of [...]
You are cordially invited to a FREE ADVANCE SCREENING for a Warner Brothers Pictures release set to open in theaters on 3/13/2015 “RUN ALL NIGHT” Tuesday, March 10, 2015 at 7:00PM in Boston. (Theater will be named on your ticket.) Rating: R Running Time: 114 Minutes Synopsis: From Warner Bros. Pictures comes the action thriller “Run [...]
Yes it's been a long cold winter -- but let's not focus on that-- how about a movie to pull our focus so that we don't even notice! Which brings me to FOCUS starring one of the world's biggest box office stars WILL SMITH and gorgeous Aussie MARGOT ROBBIE, who left the wolves howling on Wall Street [...]
KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE is the ultimate fractured fairy tale: A "tour de force" turned "turd de force." And if you're recoiling at that turn of phrase- just wait until you get to "the end" of the movie. What begins as a witty, exciting, and inventive update on the iconic James Bond gentleman spy thriller, descends into a crude gore fest that left me cringing in my seat. Keep in [...]
The Royal Opera Ballet Cinema Series one night showings at a Boston area theater: SWAN LAKE on Thursday March 19, and La Fille Mal Gardee on Tuesday May 5! TO ENTER-TO-WIN TICKETS PLEASE E-MAIL FATHOMEVENTSBOSTON@GMAIL.COM WITH YOUR FULL NAME, AGE, MAILING ADDRESS AND “JOYCE-BALLET ” IN THE SUBJECT LINE. Swan Lake March 19 Swan Lake, surely [...]
I liked the movie FIFTY SHADES OF GREY. There I said it--and I can already hear the PC police getting their panties in a twist. (Don't even get me started on the Mt. Holyoke College student group who cancelled a production of THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES because it wasn't inclusive of trans women. Moronic.) Indeed, the entire [...]
AMERICAN SNIPER keeps firing shots heard round the world. The film's impact has been reverberating ever since its opening weekend--continuing to dominate the box office, breaking box office records (though it was just ex- Sponged from the top slot this weekend by Mr. Squarepants) and igniting a firestorm of controversy among pundits, critics, movie stars, and the public. The movie directed [...]
Here's my take on the Oscar-nominated best-actresses and the movies they star in, STILL playing at a theater near you! See them before the Oscars are handed out on 2/22! TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT Marion Cotillard (Best Actress Oscar winner for LA VIE EN ROSE) stars in “Two Days, One Night” (in French with English subtitles), her glamor (but not her luminosity) tamped [...]
SELMA puts you there--right in the middle of the racism at the heart of these United States. Many of us lived it in the sixties, in the deep south with its segregated restaurants, hotels, and water fountains, and later, on television where the rest of us watched the local vitriol boil over and onto the world stage as the great [...]
The race is on! Actor Chris Pine and Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs have let loose the 2015 Oscar nominations! Who's in? Who's out? Here are the top five categories and my very preliminary two cents worth! BEST PICTURE (including total number of nominations for each) Birdman (9) The Grand Budapest Hotel (9) The Imitation Game (8) Boyhood [...]
