After a two month pandemic-induced delay, the OSCARS will happen this SUNDAY NIGHT April 25 at 8 p.m. (ET/5 p.m. PT) on ABC. The 93rd annual Academy Awards honors all things movies! I have reported live from THE red carpet over the course of 20 years as the A & E Anchor for WBZ-TV (CBS- [...]
At the end of 2020, a flood of movies was released all at once and it's time to catch up with the best. Among them, is a film based on Tony Award-winning playwright August Wilson's "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" starring Oscar-winner Viola Davis and the late Chadwick Boseman in his final film performance which might [...]
What's most remarkable about BLACK PANTHER about the latest Marvel superhero to leap to the big screen is not that it had the biggest pre-sale of any superhero movie in history, not that it features a predominantly black cast and writer/director, is well made, acted, scripted, designed, and directed (it is all of those things) [...]
Enter to win passes to a FREE ADVANCE SCREENING for a Summit Entertainment release set to open in theaters on 4/11/14: “DRAFT DAY” Wednesday, April 2, 2014 at 7:00PM in Boston. (Theater will be named on your ticket.) Rated: “PG-13” Running Time: 110 Minutes Cast: KEVIN COSTNER, JENNIFER GARNER, DENIS LEARY, FRANK LANGELLA, SAM ELLIOT, SEAN COMBS, TERRY CREWS, [...]
If you don’t have time to read the FULL TEXT REVIEW of “42”– check out my :30 Second Review with video for a short, smart critical assessment of this biopic about Jackie Robinson who broke Baseball's color barrier –and get the bottom line fast!
It's the only number to be retired by all of baseball and belonged to the tough, multi-talented athlete Jackie Robinson who rose out of poverty in rural Georgia to break baseball's color barrier when he signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. Written and directed by Brian Helgeland (L.A. Confidential, Mystic River), "42" is a [...]
You are cordially invited to a FREE ADVANCE SCREENING for Warner Brother’s release set to open in theaters on 4/12/13: “42” Monday, April 8, 2013 at 7:00PM in Boston. (Theater will be named on your ticket.) Rated: “PG-13” Running Time: 128 Minutes Synopsis: Academy Award® winner Brian Helgeland (“L.A. Confidential”) wrote and directed the drama “42,” starring Chadwick Boseman [...]
