A few more good ones left to see this summer and one circling the drain... See MISTRESS AMERICA! Co-writer/director Noah Baumbach's and his muse/co-writer/star Greta Gerwig's hilarious ode to finding your path through and post college. Freshman Tracy (Lola Kirke) is floundering in her first semester and connects with her soon to be older "stepsister by marriage" Brooke [...]
If you're still casting about for something to see in the dog days of summer, here's my take on a few new ones out or streaming online now! ZIPPER: No, it's not a thriller about a tailer with a yen for alterations. It's drama about a straight arrow politician with an addiction to escorts. The handsome Patrick Wilson looking [...]
Attention foot fetishists and dessert freaks! There are two shows on stage right now that you MUST see: KINKY BOOTS, the 2013 Tony-winning, high-kicking, cross-dressing Best Musical scored by Grammy winner Cyndi Lauper and Tony winner Harvey Fierstein, and WAITRESS the world premiere, Broadway-bound musical composed by Grammy-nominated artist Sara Bareilles and directed by the A.R.T.'s Tony award-winning artistic director Diane Paulus. Start [...]
We are in the golden age of documentaries and a new one just released is an absolute masterwork. LISTEN TO ME MARLON gives us a piercingly intimate look inside the actor who changed everything about acting for all time, Marlon Brando. It turns out that this most enigmatic and provocative of stars left us quite a map to his [...]
Impossible as it sounds, Tom Cruise has done it again with THE best action/adventure blockbuster mainstream movie of the summer: MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: ROGUE NATION. I would not steer you wrong--this thing works on every level, from its trademark opening action sequence, a ridiculously over the top piece of derring-do which finds Tom hanging off the [...]
In the opening scenes of THE RUNNER the oil slick from the 2010 BP spill is seen spreading over the gulf coast, over the wild life, crippling the fishermen, the local culture, and the economy; by the end of the film, the contamination will have infiltrated the landscape, political and personal, of the man at [...]
(l to r) Regan (Jeanine Kane), Cordelia (Libby McKnight), King Lear (Will Lyman), Regan (Deb Martin)Photo:Andrew Brilliant/Brilliant Pictures It was a sweltering night when I saw Commonwealth Shakespeare Company's latest FREE Shakespeare on the Common, but so absorbing and mighty was Will Lyman’s performance as KING LEAR that I hardly noticed the elements, save [...]
If you haven’t already, see TRAINWRECK starring and written by this summer’s “It” girl, comedian Amy Schumer and directed by Judd Apatow. Schumer plays Amy a writer at a men’s magazine and a “pretty-ish” modern chick who does what she wants and is doing fine. She learned at her father’s (Colin Quinn) knee that “monogamy [...]
Don’t wait another minute to get a ticket to the funniest show in town right now: Marisa Smith’s "SAVING KITTY" presented by the Nora Theatre Company at Central Square Theater and starring Boston's own divine Jennifer Coolidge, star of Film (breakthrough role: "American Pie" as Stifler’s infamous mom), TV (“2 Broke Girls”), and the Broadway stage [...]
I know — it’s summer at the movies, but fear not — there is a way to block those brainless blockbusters with more satisfying alternatives: The 24th annual Woods Hole Film Festival, the oldest on Cape Cod, is set to roll for eight days (July 25 to Aug. 1)! We’re talking more than 100 films showcasing [...]
