The Oscars Sunday night March 2 were masterfully handled by Brookline's own Conan O'Brien whose intelligence, sense of the absurd, and self-deprecating charm carried us through the wild and wacky tonal shifts of a long evening. He sang and danced and cracked us up, managed a heartfelt tribute to L.A. firefighters, and a straight up, [...]
The Boston film critics have spoken! After our shortest gathering in years-- 5 1/2 hours--the votes are in! ANORA, which won the big prize at the Cannes Film Festival, the Palme d'Or, has won four awards from the Boston Society of Film Critics including top prize for Best Picture (the "Elm d'Or" for the Mass [...]
You are cordially invited to attend a FREE ADVANCE SCREENING of the first episode of Hulu's new limited series WE WERE THE LUCKY ONES . Landmark Kendall Square Cinema on Wednesday, March 20th at 7pm. Screening will include complimentary popcorn and drinks! RSVP for passes here: https://gofobo.com/OgBXj97049 Each pass is valid entry for 1 person. [...]
FALL drops us into the season for serious movie-going. Most of the best films and performances of the year, many of which will turn up during awards season, are being released now through December. Here are two I can recommend-- with lots more to come in the next few weeks! THE ROAD DANCE [...]
The odds are being calculated and here's who's on top right now! According to AskGamblers, "searches for ‘stream Everything Everywhere All at Once’ exploded 667%, worldwide as of 24th of January 2023 after the Academy Award nominations were released with Everything Everywhere All at Once racking up eleven nominations – more than any other movie [...]
I roused myself at the crack of 8AM this morning, and waded through the annoying byplay of hosts Tracee Ellis Ross (Black-ish) and Leslie Jordan (Will & Grace) to hear the announcement of the 94th OSCAR nominations and was happy to see so many of this year's best films and performances recognized by the Academy. [...]
HURRY! FREE ADVANCE SCREENING TO Columbia Pictures/Bron Studios release "A JOURNAL FOR JORDAN"! December 13th, 2021 at 7:00pm at AMC Boston Common For the chance to download tickets to this special advance screening of "A JOURNAL FOR JORDAN" please visit: https://alliedrsvp.com/boston Rating: PG-13 (Language, Drug Use, Partial Nudity, Some Sexual Content) Running time: 2h [...]
It's as snappy as a bunch of legos, and directed by the guy who gave us THE LEGO MOVIE, Chris McKay, here in his live-action directorial debut. But he hasn't quite figured out the connective tissue that holds human characters together, nor a live-action feature which is its own kind of organism. What we've got [...]
This Sunday December 13, the BSFC gathered for a meeting like no other: 7 HOURS on zoom where we applied 2020 hindsight to the hundreds of movies we were able to screen online this past year. We discussed, and kibitzed, and argued and discussed some more as we VOTED our year-end winners in 15 categories. [...]
It's over! The winners of Oscars 2020 are in and it was an historic night. Here are the highlights and low lights beginning with the evening's BEST moment: ***PARASITE winning four Oscars including the first time in Oscar history that a non-English film, as well as a South Korean film, won Best Picture. [...]
