:30 SECOND REVIEW–A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD
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Welcome to my new Joyce's :30 Second Review! If you don't have time to read my FULL TEXT REVIEW and want the bottom line fast, with video-- Check out Joyce's :30 Second Review! Let me know what you think!
This Sunday, for the 85th time, Hollywood will honor its own in a global pageant known as the OSCARS! I love them. I love watching them. I covered them live in a multitude of gowns for 25 years from the red carpet. This year, I will be luxuriating in every tear, laugh, gaffe, sartorial snafu [...]
WIN TICKETS TO PREMIERE SCREENING OF "BOSTON'S FINEST" WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 20TH! The new TNT SERIES "BOSTON'S FINEST" from executive producer Donnie Wahlberg premieres on Feb 27th 9pm but TNT and XFINITY invite you and a guest to attend the premiere screening on FEBRUARY 20th! For your chance to see BOSTON'S FINEST in Boston on Wednesday February 20, send [...]
Some things never get old--and Bruce Willis as John McClane is one of them. For the fifth time, A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD brings the relentless NYPD hero back -- this time in geri-action-- but the formula still works. Once again, it's John McClane against a world of bad guys; we know who's going [...]
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The Next Thing (TNT) Festival presented by ArtsEmerson:The World On Stage-- is right around the corner! It's a 10-day "mash-up" of film, music, and live performance edited on the spot and streamed live! TNT begins Feb 15 but as a prelude ArtsEmerson is screening Classics of World Cinema beginning Feb 1st. One of my all [...]
The Oscars are Feb 24, and over the next few days there are few "Oscar" films I need to catch you up on before the big event! See a French film called AMOUR which won this year's Palme D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and is among this year's nine Oscar nominees for Best Picture. [...]
I went expecting nothing-- and came away feeling like I'd really been somewhere: FAIRHAVEN-- an absorbingly authentic chamber piece about a restless man fishing for a meaningful life. Set in the working class town of Fairhaven on the south coast of Massachusetts, the film is a maiden voyage for its filmmaker Medford-born Tom O'Brien who [...]
I set my alarm (as a late riser, I'm always on L.A. time) and was up at the crack of 8:30 to hear Emma Stone and this year's Oscar Host Seth MacFarlane announce the nominations-- when I was blown out of my breakfast nook by the stupefying news that Kathryn Bigelow and Ben Affleck were [...]
Osama Bin Laden is dead. The chilling and detailed ZERO DARK THIRTY directed by Kathryn Bigelow (the first woman ever to win an Oscar for Best Director: THE HURT LOCKER) and written by Mark Boal tells us with great suspense and precision of the ten-year hunt for the terrorist leader, and his execution by Navy [...]