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 [...]
This is a BUSY time for theater and award-worthy movie releases --and I've seen a lot lately. Here's a roundup of my take on some of the latest! MUST SEE: The New England premiere of THE HEART SELLERS! The Huntington has done it again. This funny and moving new play by Lloyd Suh (who also [...]
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I'm finally catching up with films that got away from me during the last few weeks. Here's my take on two out now, beginning with the latest from Woody Allen: A RAINY DAY IN NEW YORK. The film comes trailing significant baggage. Allen sued Amazon for refusing to release the film in 2019 because of [...]
A famous critic once said, "The curtain went up at 8 o'clock sharp and came down at 10:30 dull." The sentiment applies to the only pre-Broadway engagement of TEA AT FIVE now onstage at the Huntington Avenue Theatre. Photography: Nile Scott Studios TEA AT FIVE is a dated, sentimental sliver of a [...]
Check out these productions onstage NOW, beginning with Keith Hamilton Cobb's solo show AMERICAN MOOR back in town at the Paramount! If one picture is worth a thousand words, then my video review below should convince you to get there before it ends this weekend 4/21: Then grab the kids and go see [...]
It's a quiet time of year for movie releases after the blockbusters of summer and the Oscar contenders of fall. It's the perfect time to think "silents." We can't actually hear them sighing in ecstasy, but it isn't hard to imagine from those shimmering "pictures" what was happening on the "silver screen" back in the early days of film when actual silver was [...]
IF you love Stephen Sondheim-- and what self-respecting theater-goer with any taste doesn't--get immediately over to the Lyric Stage and revel in their splendid production of SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM, a treasure trove of Sondheim tunes and tales, delivered by some of our most treasured local musical theater talents. The original production was conceived and directed on Broadway [...]
It's a beautiful week to head down to P-Town and its 17th annual International Film Festival (PIFF) which opens Thursday June 18 and runs for four days through Sunday June 21! A pal of mine Boston-based director Alan Chebot is showing his first independently produced feature-length documentary OUTERMOST RADIO/The Film. This doc takes you into the colorful inner sanctum of [...]
It's nuts out there on the boards! We've got bad Jews & displaced Hindu gods, dead poets and long lost lovers wrestling with love. Here we go! BAD JEWS: This is a real crowd pleaser written by Joshua Harmon, and directed by Rebecca Bradshaw, now breaking records over at SPEAKEASY STAGE. It's raucous and funny and plunges us right into [...]
