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 [...]
HURRY! FREE ADVANCE SCREENING for an Amazon Studios’ release “THE AERONAUTS” For the chance to receive two tickets to this screening please visit: https://www.amazonscreenings.com/JoyceAeronautics Monday, December 2, 2019 at 7:00 PM in Boston (Theatre will be named on your ticket) “THE AERONAUTS” Running Time: 101-minutes Rated: PG-13 Opening Date: December 6, 2019 Cast: Felicity Jones, Eddie [...]
THE 2016 OSCARS are upon us and I thought I'd weigh in on a few films I'd been mum on-- in case you were wondering for what and whom to root! ROOM: Nominated for Best Picture, Director, Actress, and Adapted Screenplay is a compactly explosive film about a horrifying situation: a young woman kidnapped, impregnated, and kept prisoner by a sexual predator-- and [...]
The race is on! Actor Chris Pine and Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs have let loose the 2015 Oscar nominations! Who's in? Who's out? Here are the top five categories and my very preliminary two cents worth! BEST PICTURE (including total number of nominations for each) Birdman (9) The Grand Budapest Hotel (9) The Imitation Game (8) Boyhood [...]
Will they be holiday hits? Will they win OSCARS? Add these to my Fall Movie Preview list for a complete big screen Holiday Movie Guide! (11/14) THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING He's the English-speaking Einstein--British physicist Stephen Hawking--whose book A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME made us all think we could almost understand the theory of everything. This biopic stars [...]
You are cordially invited to a FREE ADVANCE SCREENING for a Focus Feature’s release set to open in theaters on 11/14/14: “THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING” Thursday, November 13, 2014 at 7:00PM in Boston. (Theater will be named on your ticket.) Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 123 Minutes Synopsis: The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary and uplifting story [...]
I have always loved this musical onstage, but was never so miserable as when I sat through all 157 minutes onscreen. LES MISERABLES--despite some exceptional musical performances--dies a torturous death by close-up at the hands of tone-deaf director Tom Hooper. "LES MIS" as we familiarly call it, is the theatrical extravaganza put to music by [...]
Here's a FIRST LOOK at Universal Pictures epic LES MISÉRABLES. The motion-picture adaptation of the beloved global stage sensation Les Misérables hits theaters on Christmas Day! Helmed by The King’s Speech’s Academy Award®-winning director, Tom Hooper, the film features an all-star cast that includes Hugh Jackman, Oscar® winner Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Eddie [...]
