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 [...]
Who cares about the OSCARS-- right now. In fact, regional groups like the BOSTON SOCIETY OF FILM CRITICS have been known to have a major influence on which way the wind blows at Oscar time. So listen up fans, cinephiles and Oscar-ites: WE HAVE SPOKEN. We met today at the hippest hotel in town the REVERE HOTEL [...]
-- This is the first truly great movie of the fall and one of the BEST OF THE YEAR, with OSCAR written all over it. BIRDMAN stars MICHAEL KEATON and a breathtaking cast of actors who knock themselves out in a flabbergastingly audacious backstage look at actors, viral media, critics, fame, art, relationships, truth, artifice, and reality. [...]
HURRY! FREE ADVANCE SCREENING for a Columbia Pictures’ upcoming release “THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2” For the chance to receive two tickets to the screening please visit www.sonyscreenings.com/JCTASM2 Wednesday, April 30, 2014 at 7:00PM in Boston (Theater will be named on your ticket) ”THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2” Running Time: 142 Minutes Rated: “PG-13” Opening Date: May [...]
You and your family are cordially invited to a FREE ADVANCE SCREENING for a DreamWorks Animation release set to open in theaters on 3/22/13: “THE CROODS” Tuesday, March 19, 2013 at 7:00PM in Boston. (Theater will be named on your 4 ticket family pack!) Rated: “PG” Running Time: 98 Minutes Cast: Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone, Ryan [...]
I set my alarm (as a late riser, I'm always on L.A. time) and was up at the crack of 8:30 to hear Emma Stone and this year's Oscar Host Seth MacFarlane announce the nominations-- when I was blown out of my breakfast nook by the stupefying news that Kathryn Bigelow and Ben Affleck were [...]
You are cordially invited to a FREE ADVANCE SCREENING for the Warner Bros. Pictures’ release set to open in theaters on 1/11/13: “GANGSTER SQUAD” Monday, January 7, 2013 at 7:00PM in Boston. (Theater will be named on your ticket.) Rated: “R” Running Time: 113 Minutes Synopsis: Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen (Sean [...]
I loved the book. Couldn't wait to see the movie. The trailer gave me pause--nothing subtle here and that proved to be true. It's more pat and somehow smaller than Kathryn Stockett's bestselling novel, but it's an engaging, if candy-coated take on the social milieu of a very American group of characters on the cusp [...]
