There are a slew of movies that are now playing at a theater near you-- both on and off the beaten path. Let's start with the beaten path: --TRUE GRIT is the Coen Brothers tepid take on the John Wayne classic about the gunslinger and the girl who hires him. All of the Coen brothers [...]
May your new year be filled with love, flowers, wacky adventures, and the creative power to Live the Dream!
THE FIGHTER packs more of a wallop than THE TOWN or CONVICTION. It's yet another gritty true-tale of life in the big/little city of Boston. Lowell Mass, actually. Mark Wahlberg stars as boxer Micky Ward who floats to the top of the welterweight heap, but not before fighting off his family: his mother/manager Alice-- Melissa [...]
Everything old is new again...here is an early New Year's gift to you! I may be late to this party, but she is one of the best new performers on the scene and made her network TV debut on Letterman in May: a cute little dynamo of a woman channeling James Brown. Cape and all-watch [...]
So I'm sitting in my kitchen and the phone rings. A quavering voice on the other end of the line hesitates then says,"This is Dorothy. I'd like a cup of soup." I haven't made soup in years. I promptly inform Dorothy that she probably has the wrong number and where was she calling? She says, [...]
The queen's English has nothing on THE KING'S SPEECH. This is quite simply the best film of the year, and I think this true story has gotten short shrift, despite its 7 Golden Globe nominations, which it deserves. Colin Firth stars as the Duke of York("Bertie" to his family)and younger brother of King Edward VIII [...]
I miss Captain Beefheart who died this past Friday at 69. A.K.A. Don Van Vliet, he was to me the quintessential experimental artist whose vision expressed in music and painting-- let everyone else see. He made his high school classmate Frank Zappa (with whom he had a love/hate relationship)seem mainstream. He made the first music [...]
Trailer:THE BLUE FLOWER It just about broke my heart. THE BLUE FLOWER is a gorgeous kaleidoscope of sight and sound. It's the A.R.T.'s latest, a multimedia musical play with video, movement, song and dance, live band and a killer cast of seven juggling a new "language," and many achingly beautiful songs. THE BLUE FLOWER is [...]
We just concluded our year-end voting meeting of the BOSTON SOCIETY OF FILM CRITICS(BSFC) and THE SOCIAL NETWORK cleaned up: Best Picture Best Director-David Fincher, Best Actor-Jesse Eisenberg, Best Screenplay-Aaron Sorkin Best Music-Trent Reznor Here's the rest of the list: Best Actress-Natalie Portman BLACK SWAN Best Supporting Actor-Christian Bale THE FIGHTER Best Supporting Actress-Juliette Lewis [...]
There's black Friday. The Black Death. Blackbeard. Now... BLACK SWAN!!! "I'm molting!I'm molting!!!!" Part psychological thriller, part horror flick, part claptrap, it looks gorgeous, and dives right in--ballerinas on the edge competing for the big part, the prima dual role in SWAN LAKE. Natalie Portman wasted away to nothing, and dug out all her old [...]
