You don't need my input on the god of thunder, dinosaurs, minions, or yet another retelling of the Spiderman origin story (unless Timothee Chalamet is spinning the web). I do, however, wish to make THREE suggestions for movies that may have escaped your notice and which I hope you check out as soon as possible: [...]
It was a notably lackluster year for movies. I searched in vain all last spring and most of the summer for something exciting, challenging, beautiful to see. It wasn't until this fall that a tidal wave of smart, absorbing, artful films were released before awards season, and I did my best to stay afloat in [...]
If only PHANTOM THREAD had been based on real life couture god Charles James. At least the clothes would have been beautiful. Here Daniel Day-Lewis as designer Reynolds Woodcock spends the entire movie needling his seamstresses as they sweat over what look like aproned doilies and lumpy Halloween costumes. OK. A few of [...]
Chesley Sullenberger is the reason computers will never take over the world. He's exactly the sort of hero Clint Eastwood would set his sights on-- another man who casts a long shadow over the techno-driven world. Eastwood has directed Tom Hanks as SULLY the pilot who made the miracle landing on the Hudson after a flock of birds crashed [...]
HURRY! FREE ADVANCE SCREENING IN IMAX for a Warner Brothers Pictures’ upcoming release “SULLY” For the chance to receive two tickets to the screening please visit: https://www.wbtickets.com/XwUbR43664 Tuesday, September 6, 2016 at 7:00p in Boston (Theater will be named on your ticket) ”SULLY” Running Time: 91 Minutes Rated: “PG-13” Opening Date: September 9, 2016 Cast: Tom [...]
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 Disney release set to open in theaters on 12/13/13: “SAVING MR. BANKS” Tuesday, December 10, 2013 at 7:00PM in Boston. (Theater will be named on your ticket.) Rated: “PG-13” Running Time: 120 Minutes Cast: Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks, Paul Giamatti, Jason Schwartzman, Bradley Whitford, Annie [...]
You are cordially invited to a FREE ADVANCE SCREENING for a Columbia Pictures release set to open in theaters on 10/11/13: “CAPTAIN PHILLIPS” Wednesday, October 9, 2013 at 7:00PM in Boston. (Theater will be named on your ticket.) Rated: “PG-13” Running Time: 135 Minutes Cast: Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman, Faysal Ahmed, Mahat M. Ali, [...]
You are cordially invited to a FREE ADVANCE SCREENING for a Warner Brothers Picture’s release set to open in theaters on 10/26/12: “CLOUD ATLAS” Monday, October 22, 2012 at 7:00PM in Boston. (Theater will be named on your ticket.) Rated: “R” Running Time: 172 Minutes Synopsis: From acclaimed filmmakers Lana Wachowski, Tom Tykwer, and Andy Wachowski [...]
I sat down to watch EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE. Make that "Extremely Tedious and Incredibly Morose." I had to stop after 20 minutes. I tried again, got through it, but found the film deeply off-putting. It features one of the most annoying kid's performances ever, and one of the most sentimentally oblique plot lines [...]
