PRISONERS is one of the best films I've seen at the movies in weeks. It pops like a kernel in a myriad ways--full of nooks and crannies, threatening & thrilling, sad & shocking, and just plain entertaining. I followed this thriller about two little girls who disappear on Thanksgiving Day-- right down a very dark [...]
I've yet to see THE WOLVERINE and believe I am the LONE CRITIC who loved THE LONE RANGER. Here's the best & worst of the rest so far: 20 FEET FROM STARDOM--This revealing, heartbreaking documentary charts the careers, hopes, dreams, disappointments of the back-up singers who literally stand inches away from center stage-the voices behind [...]
Last night I interviewed Boston's own Ben Affleck in person before a live audience at the AMC BOSTON COMMON CINEMAS immediately following a 7PM special screening of his latest film, ARGO! Ben stars in and directs this taut thriller about a little known chapter in the Iranian hostage crisis that put the nail in the [...]
You are cordially invited to a FREE ADVANCE SCREENING of Open Road’s upcoming release set to open in theaters on 3/9/12: “SILENT HOUSE” Monday, March 5 at 9:30PM in Boston. (Theater will be named on your ticket.) The film is rated “R” Synopsis: Silent House is a uniquely unsettling horror thriller starring Elizabeth Olsen as [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sYSyuuLk5g CONTAGION begins with a mounting sense of dis-ease, which spreads like a virus through the all-star, "Oscar" infused cast as each one plays his or her part in what is about to become a pandemic! The tension mounts-- we see the whole globe engaged as the action proceeds smartly along on many levels. Director [...]
https://youtu.be/Yjg5t3__lLs THE DEBT opens with an intriguing bang, and closes with an fatiguing clang. But its two leading ladies had me at hello: Dame Helen Mirren queen of the movies, and Jessica Chastain the Meryl Streep of her generation-- with 3 big movies out this summer (THE TREE OF LIFE, THE HELP), and at least [...]
