BOYHOOD: Richard Linklater's extraordinary "12 years a film" feat! He directed the same cast over a dozen years and captured the ephemeral truth about one boy's childhood and growing up in a broken home. It's a "meta" experience for filmgoers who watch the actors and the characters they play, age on camera over time, while the boy played by the soulful Ellar Coltrane--expressive and [...]
Having seen THE IMITATION GAME starring Benedict Cumberbatch, I now consider myself an official Cumbercookie, I mean Cumberbunny, er Cumberbabe-- or perhaps, most aptly, because I am of a critical bent, “Cumberbitch.” I am late to this party and thus not alone in Cumberland whose boundaries have been spreading since the actor hit our shores in [...]
Who cares about the OSCARS-- right now. In fact, regional groups like the BOSTON SOCIETY OF FILM CRITICS have been known to have a major influence on which way the wind blows at Oscar time. So listen up fans, cinephiles and Oscar-ites: WE HAVE SPOKEN. We met today at the hippest hotel in town the REVERE HOTEL [...]
ENTER for a chance to win complimentary passes to a Fathom Event: “The Royal Ballet: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” at the Showcase Patriot Place in Foxborough. The Royal Ballet’s one-night only showing of ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND, is being streamed live to theaters across the United States at 7:00pm on Tuesday, December 16. To Enter [...]
You are cordially invited to a FREE ADVANCE SCREENING for a Warner Brothers Pictures release set to open in theaters on 12/17/14: “THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES" Wednesday, December 10, 2014 at 7:00PM in Boston. (Theater will be named on your ticket.) Rated: PG-13 Running Time: 144 Minutes Synopsis: From Academy Award-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson [...]
It's a sad, strange story, and it's hard to believe it's true: FOXCATCHER is a tale of three men-- two Olympic wrestling brothers, and the very rich man who covets them. Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo play Mark and Dave Schultz who won Olympic gold medals in wrestling, Dave also acting as trainer to his younger brother Mark. Enter Steve Carell as John [...]
You are cordially invited to a FREE ADVANCE SCREENING for a Weinstein Company release set to open in theaters on 12/12/14: “THE IMITATION GAME” Thursday, December 11, 2014 at 7:00PM in Boston. (Theater will be named on your ticket.) Rated: PG-13 Running Time: 114 Minutes Synopsis: During the winter of 1952, British authorities entered the home [...]
The film hits you like a slap in the face. WHIPLASH is not just the name of Hank Levy's eccentrically metered jazz tune, but it describes the dangerous dynamic between a young drummer Andrew (Miles Teller) and his bullying instructor Fletcher (J.K. Simmons) at an exclusive music conservatory. Andrew takes a licking and keeps on ticking in one of [...]
Will they be holiday hits? Will they win OSCARS? Add these to my Fall Movie Preview list for a complete big screen Holiday Movie Guide! (11/14) THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING He's the English-speaking Einstein--British physicist Stephen Hawking--whose book A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME made us all think we could almost understand the theory of everything. This biopic stars [...]
INTERSTELLAR is "INTER-less than-STELLAR," but at least it reaches for the stars. Just opened in IMAX and theaters everywhere, INTERSTELLAR, Christopher Nolan's gorgeously shot and directed 3-hour extravaganza, is an immersive experience, part sci-fi adventure/thriller, part family saga; but the meshing of those elements by way of a screenplay co-written by the brothers Nolan-- Jonathan and Chris-- -is [...]
