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Joyces Choices
Joyce Kulhawik, best known as the Emmy Award-winning arts and entertainment critic for CBS-Boston (WBZ-TV 1981-2008), is currently lending her expertise as an arts critic/advocate, motivational speaker, and cancer crusader. Kulhawik is President of the Boston Theater Critics Association, a member of the Boston Society of Film Critics, and Boston Online Film Critics Association. Kulhawik 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 syndicated movie-review programs with Roger Ebert and Leonard Maltin. Look for her arts & entertainment reviews online at JoycesChoices.com
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BREWMANCE is a tale of a love affair with beer– but not my father’s beer, though Chet and his brothers, my uncles, LOVED beer. They would sit around the backyard at all the family gatherings, barbecues to baptisms, drinking cases of the stuff. A cousin once drove in from out of state for a family funeral, arriving early and with a little help polished off half a case before the service. My father loved “BUD” that all-American brand he once championed at a hoity-toity restaurant. When it was missing from the list of highfalutin beers the waiter read off, my dad said, “No Bud? It’s the king of beers!” We burst out laughing. Many years later, a friend and neighbor showed up at Chet’s wake and tried to slip a six-pack into my dad’s casket.
But I digress– or maybe not. Beer has always been a boon to camaraderie, a hearty toast to success, and perhaps even a boost to the American Revolution fermented in “public houses” over a few pints–or so we are given to understand in this intoxicating documentary about another kind of revolt, the craft beer revolution for folks who want more than what my dad and his bros drank. Independently produced and distributed by filmmaker Christo Brock, BREWMANCE documents the American craft beer movement spawned by home brewers in search of flavors infinitely more exotic than my father’s generic lager. In fact, BREWMANCE posits that the culture of craft beer is a rebellion against homogenization itself: variety and individuality is all. Indeed, the film packs a lot of heart, hops, history, family and science into a refreshing cinematic elixir, with cool graphics and a heady close up on the world of the alchemists who craft the golden brew.
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4/29/2021