Boston Theater Critics Association members with Olympia Dukakis and Paul Daigneault Olympia Dukakis Paul Daigneault It was a fabulous night!! THE MAYOR Marty Walsh spoke about his commitment to Boston as an ARTS town; OSCAR-WINNER Olympia Dukakis was honored, and her cousin and former GOVERNOR Mike Dukakis paid [...]
Forgive me my metaphors but CHEF is an absolutely delicious creation, a nicely balanced recipe for entertainment: food, music, and family saga, peppered with a crash course on social media and just the right combination of stars to spice things up! Writer/director Jon Favreau stars as Carl Casper a chef who's stuck in a dead-end [...]
If you weren't fed up already, you WILL be after you see FED UP--a new documentary on the obesity epidemic and how the food industry has conspired to keep us fat and unhappy, our children becoming the first generation to live shorter lives than their parents! According to FED UP, sugar is the devil and [...]
Watching FADING GIGOLO the new movie written, directed by, and starring John Turturrro, is like joining a crazy conversation in progress-- and trying to catch up. Woody Allen plays an old bookseller named Murray-- who is closing up shop, but is hardly out of ideas. In fact, he's got a dilly: he's pitching his friend [...]
There are certain films whose time has passed and THE OTHER WOMAN is one of those. The cultural clock has been ticking and material like this has expired. Or so I thought. Apparently the "throwbacks" among us who think such films are in any way clever, funny, or entertaining-- still exist. The film is a [...]
HURRY!! FREE PASSES to a Fathom Events’ one-night presentation “SHATNER’S WORLD” 5 PEOPLE WHO RESPOND (via “Contact Joyce” on home page) WITH THEIR FULL NAME AND MAILING ADDRESS HAVE THE CHANCE TO WIN A PASS FOR TWO! Thursday, April 24, 2014 at 7:00 PM at a Framingham Theater. (Theater will be named when notified.) “SHATNER’S [...]
Two quick reviews before the weekend! NOAH is a crazy film by Darren Aronofsky (THE FOUNTAIN, BLACK SWAN) manifesting the filmmaker's trademark tussle with the unknowable and a feverish attempt to reconcile good and evil, faith and fear, while yoking the otherworldly to concrete reality. Russell Crowe as Noah gets the message to build an [...]
The modern day spinner of cinematic fairytales, Wes Anderson, is like that other "Andersen"--Hans Christian-- in his telling of layered fables that have adults, as well as children in their sights. But Wes Anderson accentuates the comedy, like "concupiscent curds" atop a heady brew of murder, mutilation, and even deeper mayhem. His latest THE GRAND [...]
IT'S OSCAR TIME and I'm so excited! Here's my very first VIDEO blog post for Boston.com featuring a preview and my predictions for the big show! ELLEN is hosting, PINK, U-2, and BETTE MIDLER are performing and all the stars will be out on the red carpet. Here's my on-camera preview and predictions for the [...]
Leave it to a pair of magicians to take the magic out of a great work of art, then raise even deeper questions than they answer. TIM'S VERMEER floored me. It really messed with my head. Dutch master painter Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675), known for his extraordinary sense of composition, pristine technique, and light--his canvases seem [...]
