AMY—the searing new documentary about the incandescent, singer songwriter Amy Winehouse is so viscerally and intellectually alive, it’s as if she’s been conjured up again and we’ve had to suffer the loss of her for the first time. The film by award-winning British filmmaker Asif Kapadia gets to the heart and soul, skin and bones [...]
WOMAN IN GOLD is now available on BLU-RAY, DVD, and DIGITAL HD and BetterAfter50.com for whom I also write is running a contest in connection with that release. CLICK HERE & follow the instructions on the BetterAfter50 website & enter to win a $100 gift card & MORE!! My review of the film below: WOMAN IN GOLD is one [...]
I’ve seen a raft of films of late—some float, some I’d push overboard. Here’s a list, sink or swim: INSIDE OUT: Disney/Pixar’s latest is among its greatest animated offerings, a 3D computer-generated, comedy/drama. We get to see, literally, inside 11 year-old Riley’s head as her various thoughts and emotions battle for control, with an all-star cast as [...]
STILL TIME TO ENTER for a chance to win complimentary passes to the Fathom Event: The Met Summer Encore Series Enter to win by emailing fathomeventsboston@gmail.com with "(Name of production)– JOYCE’S CHOICES” in the subject line. 5 admit 2 winners will be selected and emailed their free passes. The passes will be for the Showcase Cinemas [...]
STOP THE PRESSES: NEWSIES is a smash! The voices! The dancing! The sets! If you're looking for some rip-roaring entertainment to add to the fireworks this 4rth of July week, head to Boston's Opera House for a terrific production of the Tony Award-winning Boston premiere of Disney's NEWSIES! It's an industrial strength musical about all-American pluck and ingenuity and [...]
Did I mention I can't wait to see MAGIC MIKE XXL? (See my Summer Movie Preview Part I) It opens July 1 and kicks the second half of the summer movie season into high gear! Here are the rest of the movies I can't wait to see as the summer movie season heats up! July 1: TERMINATOR: [...]
I was moved to tears when I saw this. Listen to where our President puts the emphasis when he intones his final words, "The United States Of America."
Jacob Harris,Composer/ Elegy for the Victims of the Boston Marathon Bombing The surviving victims of the Marathon Bombing have had a last chance to speak directly to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in court after he was sentenced to death. The survivors have been sentenced to life in the aftermath of losing life and limb. The son of dear family [...]
The blockbusters and the hidden gems are battling it out this summer, and here are the winners and losers according to my calculations. I bit the bullet and saw the number one movie in the country: JURASSIC WORLD-- the JURASSIC PARK sequel that's tearing up the box office, with the biggest opening of all time anywhere, ever, on [...]
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 [...]
