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I have finally seen THE movie of the summer– and perhaps the year: SUMMER OF SOUL (… Or, When the Revolution...
What a time, what a year. I wanted to let everyone who follows my site know that my mother Alice Kulhawik passed away this week peacefully overnight in her slee...
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These two films couldn’t be more different and I liked them both– one in spite of its being outright awful...
This post originally appeared on JoycesChoices.com
Am hunkered down with lists of things to do that I just can’t make myself DO. Cleaning…organizing (too li...
It has taken until the year 2018 for a black superhero to emerge full blown into the zeitgeist, and be celebrated, embraced, and consumed like ripe fruit ready to burst....
Here’s another batch of films, like cookies for the holidays– yummy & crummy; some to be savored, some to be consumed guiltily in the dark, and some to be tossed....
BLADE RUNNER 2049 continues a tale that asks what it means to be human, but despite being almost an hour longer than the original, is a much more routine experi...
Geena Davis is affecting as Marjorie’s daughter Tess, on edge as she steers through her anger, resentment, and yearning for a mother who is slipping away...
Does a film like DETROIT help or hurt? Does turning these real life events into a “narrative thriller” cheapen the truth? Can anybody white say anything meaningful about anybody black?...
Here’s a rewarding artistic excursion for the new year– an erotic crime thriller two ways, one onscreen, the other onstage. Both are based on the devilishly byz...
This was a strange year for movies. I could barely find a thing to watch all summer, and then was inundated with a flood of excellent features in the Fall. No o...
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...
Joyce Kulhawik is an Emmy Award-Winning arts and entertainment critic (CBS-Boston 1981-2008), Arts Advocate, Motivational Speaker, and 3X Cancer survivor. Kulhawik is the President of the Boston Theater Critics Association, a member of the Boston Society of Film Critics and Boston Online Film Critics Association. She has covered local and national events from Boston and Broadway to Hollywood, reporting live from The Oscars,The Emmys, and The Grammys. Nationally, Kulhawik has co-hosted the syndicated movie-review show "Hot Ticket" with Leonard Maltin and was a continuing co-host on “Roger Ebert & The Movies.” Joyce also Moonwalks and Yodels. Additional reviews can be found on her website JoycesChoices.com.
