The movie event I live for ALL year is happening this weekend! The host-less 92nd Oscars are set to air this Sunday night, February 9 on ABC @8PM!! I love the sartorial splendor, the rhetorical blunders, the offhand quips, and above all, Brad Pitt. Who is bound to win. He's won everything else, including our [...]
No doubt you've seen my review of PARASITE, the most well-conceived, executed, and surprising movie out there now, but here's my take on a few more--worthy in whole, in part, or not at all... These films represent my wide-ranging interest in all kinds of movies, even as fewer and fewer of them are now playing [...]
I love this annual marathon meeting-- our 38th-- of the BOSTON SOCIETY OF FILM CRITICS to decide our year end faves! We voted the "Best" in 15 categories topped by our BEST FILM of the year: the stunning IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK written and directed by Barry Jenkins, about a young African American couple in 1970's [...]
You are cordially invited to a FREE ADVANCE SCREENING for a Warner Brothers Pictures’ release set to open in theaters on 1/9/15: “INHERENT VICE” Tuesday, January 6, 2015 at 7:00PM in Cambridge. (Theater will be named on your ticket.) Rating: R Running Time: 148 Minutes Synopsis: “Inherent Vice,” an adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s seventh and funniest [...]
The race is ON! Chris "Thor" Hemsworth helped hammer home the 86th Oscar nominations with Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs and the results are pretty much as I expected: AMERICAN HUSTLE and GRAVITY tied for most nominations--10 each, followed by 12 YEARS A SLAVE with 9! What I'm delighted about? Matthew McConaughey. It's his year [...]
You are cordially invited to a FREE ADVANCE SCREENING for a Warner Brothers’ release set to open in theaters on 12/25/13: “HER” Wednesday, December 18, 2013 at 7:00PM in Cambridge. (Theater will be named on your ticket.) Rated: “R” Running Time: 126 Minutes Synopsis: Set in Los Angeles in the slight future, “Her” follows Theodore (Joaquin [...]
