The race is ON! Chris "Thor" Hemsworth helped hammer home the 86th Oscar nominationsĀ 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 [...]
I stumbled out of this film in a daze of horrified relief. The Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Tracy Letts, now a movie starring Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, describes one of the most dysfunctional sagas in the annals of dysfunctional family sagas. It is not the bleak, claustrophobic womb of Ā madness and despair that Ā is [...]
You are cordially invited to a FREE ADVANCE SCREENING for a Weinstein Company releaseĀ set to open in theaters on 12/25/13: āAUGUST: OSAGE COUNTYā Wednesday, December 18, 2013 at 7:00PM in Boston. (Theater will be named on your ticket.) Rated: āRā Running Time: 119 Minutes Synopsis: AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY tells the dark, hilarious and deeply touching [...]
HOPE SPRINGS-- that movies are still being made (if I may paraphrase our 16th president) of the grownups, for the grownups, and by the grownups... and that they have not perished from the earth.Ā Though far from perfect, HOPE SPRINGS is a funny, painful, tender, and smart take on a long-term marriage gone dry, and [...]
You are cordially invited to a FREE ADVANCE SCREENING of Ā Columbia Pictureās releaseĀ set to open in theaters on 8/8/12: āHOPE SPRINGSā Monday, August 6, 2012 at 7:00PM in Boston. (Theater will be named on your ticket.) The film is rated āPG-13ā Ā Running Time: 100 Minutes Cast: Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, and Steve Carell [...]
There's one reason to see THE IRON LADY and that reason is Meryl Streep. Yes, I KNOW you know she is the most nominated actress in Oscar history, nominated again this year for Best Actress making that 17 nominations in all (this year bookies are putting their odds on Streep!) We all know that she's [...]
