Winchester Star: Movies
- Rewind 2019: Coming-of-age drama 'Little Women' tops her list
Thursday - 01/02/2020 - 07:34 AMThe best of the best made us laugh, cry or cry with laughter, and I’ve been revisiting moments in these films since their final credits rolled.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Movie review: 'Invisible Life' is a touching tale of two sisters
Thursday - 01/02/2020 - 08:53 AMBrazil’s Cannes-winning Oscar entry explores the different paths once close sisters take after being unintentionally separated as teenagers.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Movie Review: ‘1917’ displays the futility of war in one big shot
Monday - 01/06/2020 - 02:22 PMThere’s nothing new about movies drawing in viewers by kicking off with gimmicky opening sequences. Like, say, shots using one camera, that go on and on without an edit. Orson Welles did it in 1958 with “Touch of Evil” (a length of 3:19).More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- SNEAK PEEKS: What's new at the movies this week
Thursday - 01/09/2020 - 08:45 AM1917Sam Mendes puts a whole new spin on the war-movie genre with his gripping tale of two peach-fuzzed World War I grunts assigned the impossible task of fording through enemy lines to relay a message that will prevent a catastrophic massacre.Like a BossTiffany Haddish and Rose Byrne co-star as BFFs and business partners whose relationship is put to the test when a titan of the cosmetics industry (Salma Hayek) makes them a tempting offer [...]
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Oscars 2020: An icy snub for Quincy producer of 'Frozen 2'
Monday - 01/13/2020 - 03:33 PM“Frozen 2” – produced by Quincy native Peter Del Vecho – got an icy reception when the nominations for the 92nd Academy Awards were announced Monday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Poll: Pick your favorite Christmas movie
Tuesday - 12/10/2019 - 11:15 AMIt's that time of year again. Christmas movies run a constant loop. Just about everyone has a favorite. Tell us yours. [gh:script](function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(d.getElementById(id))return;js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src='https://embed.ex.co/sdk.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}(document,'script','playbuzz-sdk'));[/gh:script][gh:div class="playbuzz" data-id="22fe4aa1-925c-486d-b155-bd6289ca0fdb" data-show-share="false" data-show- [...]
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Movie review: Eastwood's 'Richard Jewell' packs a punch
Thursday - 12/12/2019 - 01:46 AMClint Eastwood's "Richard Jewell" tells the story of the security guard unjustly accused in the Centennial Park bombing.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Q&A with 'Little Women's' Chris Cooper
Tuesday - 12/17/2019 - 02:27 PMCharacter actor Chris Cooper did a lot of theater before moving into films. There were drama classes at University of Missouri, and studying in New York with both Stella Adler and Sandy Meisner apostle Wynn Handman.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Movie review: 'Rise of Skywalker' is a galactic let down
Thursday - 12/19/2019 - 01:10 PM"Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" is the final film in the Skywalker Saga.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Movie review: 'Bombshell' explodes on the screen
Thursday - 12/19/2019 - 12:57 AM"Bombshell" tells the story of sexual harassment at Fox News.
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- SNEAK PEEKS: What's new in theaters this week
Thursday - 01/02/2020 - 09:25 AMThe GrudgeA detective (Andrea Riseborough) fights to get to the bottom of a grizzly murder of a family in a home that might be under an evil curse that could next target her.Invisible LifeBrazil’s Cannes-winning Oscar entry explores the different paths once close sisters take after being unintentionally separated as teenagers.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- The 10 best movies of the 2010s
Thursday - 01/02/2020 - 10:21 AMJoin us in looking back at some of the best films of the decade.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Movie review: '1917' is a real-time war thriller
Thursday - 01/09/2020 - 04:01 AMSam Mendes puts a whole new spin on the war-movie genre with his gripping tale of two peach-fuzzed World War I grunts assigned the impossible task of fording through enemy lines to relay a message that will prevent a catastrophic massacre.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Review: 'Underwater' is soggy sci-fi monster movie
Friday - 01/10/2020 - 02:00 AMKristen Stewart leads a crew of scientists scrambling to escape an underwater drilling station.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Peter Jackson’s WWI documentary is a living, breathing stunner
Monday - 12/09/2019 - 02:28 PM“They Shall not Grow Old,” the World War I documentary directed by Peter Jackson (yeah, the Hobbits guy), is a masterpiece. There, I said it.The one-of-a-kind film was released late last year for a limited run via Fathom Events, and proved to be so popular it got a limited regular theatrical run a couple of months later.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Movie review: More fun and games in 'Jumanji: The Next Level'
Thursday - 12/12/2019 - 01:26 AM"Jumanji: The Next Level" is a sequel to the 2017 film about a group of people who are trapped in a video game.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Movie Review: ‘Bombshell’ never has its fuse properly lit
Tuesday - 12/17/2019 - 02:23 PMIt’s the time of year when studios go about releasing their biggest, shiniest, supposedly most crowd-pleasing and award-worthy movies. So, it’s kind of disappointing when one comes along that tries very hard to be one of those, while also attempting to cover a timely and important subject ...More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- QUIZ: Test your holiday movie knowledge
Wednesday - 12/18/2019 - 12:19 PMFancy yourself a Christmas movie buff? Have you watched every version of “A Christmas Carol,” including the Muppet version? Can you recite “A Christmas Story” in your sleep? Test your holiday movie knowledge with our ultimate Christmas movie quiz below, and maybe pick up some new trivia facts to impress your friends.[gh:script type="text/javascript" src="https://mediaengagement.org/wp-content/plugins/enp-quiz/public/quiz-take/js/dist/iframe-parent.min.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- SNEAK PEEKS: What's new in theaters
Thursday - 12/19/2019 - 06:50 AMStar Wars: The Rise of SkywalkerAfter 42 years and nine films, the game-changing Skywalker saga comes to a close with J.J. Abrams returning to the director's chair for what promises to be a fantastic finish.CatsNo one asked for it, but like a feline fighting to stay out of the bath, you’re getting it, like it or not: a movie version of the smash Andrew Lloyd Webber musical.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Movie review: 'A Hidden Life' is a miss from Malick
Thursday - 12/19/2019 - 11:42 PM"A Hidden Life" tells the true story of an Austrian conscientious objector.
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- The year in movies: Divorce drama 'Marriage Story' tops his list
Thursday - 01/02/2020 - 08:17 AMDramatic films top critic's 10 best list for 2019
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Movie Review: ‘Just Mercy’ tackles the difficulties of racism obstructing justice
Monday - 01/06/2020 - 01:56 PMTrue stories that are turned into Hollywood films are a dime a dozen these days, and they often come across as heavy-handed accounts brimming with messages that practically scream out that their subjects are important.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Powerful performances propel death-row drama 'Just Mercy'
Thursday - 01/09/2020 - 03:51 AMIn "Just Mercy," Michael B. Jordan is an idealistic young lawyer trying to free wrongly convicted inmates on Alabama's death row.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - GET REEL : Film critic Bob Tremblay gives raves for his faves of 2019
Sunday - 01/12/2020 - 08:11 AMI could serenade you with a Rodgers & Hammerstein ditty from "The Sound of Music," but I'll spare you my warbling and simply say the following 10 films I'm about to list represent a few of my favorite things from last year.Note that these movies may not necessarily be my picks as the best films of 2019, just the films that please pleased me.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Flower power: Big social commentary in 'Little Joe'
Sunday - 12/08/2019 - 09:04 AMA plant scientist creates a flower that can make people happy in "Little Joe."
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - SNEAK PEEKS: What's new in theaters this week
Thursday - 12/12/2019 - 04:20 AMJumanji: The Next LevelThe Rock, Kevin Hart and Jack Black reunite with co-writer-director Jake Kasdan in a sequel to 2017 smash about video-game players trapped in a dangerous virtual reality in which peril await around every turn.Richard JewellPaul Walter Hauser (“I, Tonya”) is outstanding as the falsely accused Olympic bomber and Sam Rockwell is even better as the pro-bono lawyer doing battle with a pushy FBI agent (Jon [...]
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'Little Women' wins big in Boston
Sunday - 12/15/2019 - 06:25 PMThe shot-in-Massachusetts “Little Women,” Greta Gerwig’s adaptation of the Louisa May Alcott classic, was the hometown favorite, earning four awards, including best picture, from the Boston Society of Film Critics at its annual meeting Sunday at Emerson College.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Movie Review: ‘Star Wars’ finale never really blasts off
Wednesday - 12/18/2019 - 01:30 PMDo you remember the first time you heard of “Star Wars?” I sure do, and it was an indelible moment. I was at the Paris Cinema in Boston to see the Russ Meyer film “Up!” - the film in which Hitler is eaten by a piranha while taking a bath.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- SOUNDS: Chadwick Stokes the Pintos unleash new music
Friday - 12/20/2019 - 02:40 PMThe easy way to get into a story on Chadwick Stokes is simply to say that he and his current band, The Pintos, are playing an album release show at House of Blues in Boston on Dec.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Movie review: Sandler dazzles in 'Uncut Gems'
Tuesday - 12/24/2019 - 10:57 PMAdam Sandler plays a jeweler in "Uncut Gems."
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