After a two month pandemic-induced delay, the OSCARS will happen this SUNDAY NIGHT April 25 at 8 p.m. (ET/5 p.m. PT) on ABC. The 93rd annual Academy Awards honors all things movies! I have reported live from THE red carpet over the course of 20 years as the A & E Anchor for WBZ-TV (CBS- [...]
At the end of 2020, a flood of movies was released all at once and it's time to catch up with the best. Among them, is a film based on Tony Award-winning playwright August Wilson's "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" starring Oscar-winner Viola Davis and the late Chadwick Boseman in his final film performance which might [...]
FENCES-- the seminal Pulitzer Prize-winning work by August Wilson, one of a decade-by-decade 10-play cycle about the black experience in America--will rattle your bones. I've seen the great James Earl Jones do it onstage in a fearsome, monumental performance. Now I've seen two-time Oscar winner Denzel Washington do it on the big screen and my cage has been rattled and shattered [...]
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 [...]
You are cordially invited to a FREE ADVANCE SCREENING for a Warner Brothers Pictures’ release set to open in theaters on 9/20/13: “PRISONERS” Tuesday, September 17, 2013 at 7:30PM in Boston. (Theater will be named on your ticket.) Rated: “R” Running Time: 153 Minutes Synopsis: From Alcon Entertainment comes “Prisoners,” a Warner Bros. Pictures’ release starring [...]
You are cordially invited to a FREE ADVANCE SCREENING for a Warner Brothers release set to open in theaters on 2/14/13: “BEAUTIFUL CREATURES” Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 7:00PM in Boston. (Theater will be named on your ticket.) Rated: “PG-13” Running Time: 124 Minutes Synopsis: A supernatural love story set in the South, “Beautiful Creatures” tells [...]
You are cordially invited to a FREE ADVANCE SCREENING of 20TH Century Fox’s release set to open in theaters on 9/28/12: “WON’T BACK DOWN” Monday, September 24, 2012 at 7:00PM in Boston. (Theater will be named on your ticket.) The film is rated “PG” Running Time: 119 Minutes Cast: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Holly Hunter, Oscar [...]
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 [...]
