Month: November 2015
TRUMBO film review – Cate Marquis
Inspiring ‘Trumbo’ exposes anti-Semitism of Hollywood blacklist – Film Review By Cate Marquis for the Jewish Light – The Hollywood blacklist marked a dark period in American history. Cold War fear of communists gripped the nation, and a Washington-based witch hunt sought to find anyone with even an imagined link to communism. Suspicion fell on…
Interview with Saoirse Ronan on film BROOKLYN
Saoirse Ronan speaks on her new film ‘Brooklyn’ – By Cate Marquis, Staff Writer for The Current – Actress Saoirse Ronan was born in New York but her parents returned to their native Ireland with her when she was three. So “Brooklyn,” a film about a young Irish woman, Eilis, who moves to America in…
TRUMBO film review – Mark Glass
TRUMBO film review – Film Review By Mark Glass – Grade: 4 ½ out of 5 stars Rating: R Dalton Trumbo was one of Hollywood’s leading screenwriters throughout the 1940s. But shortly after WW II, the country morphed into its Cold War mentality, with Communism denounced as the new existential threat before we’d barely…
THE NIGHT BEFORE film review – Mark Glass
THE NIGHT BEFORE film review – Film Review By Mark Glass – Grade: 3 out of 5 stars Rating: R This will likely be the raunchiest Christmas comedy of the year, but don’t judge it solely on that basis. Seth Rogen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Anthony Mackie play old friends who’ve maintained a tradition of Christmas…
THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY – PART 2 film review – Mark Glass
THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY – PART 2 film review – Film Review By Mark Glass – Grade: 2 out of 5 stars Rating: PG-13 If you’re obsessed with this fantasy series, you might have enough patience to find this fourth and final installment worthwhile. It does finish the saga with reasonable outcomes, but the path…
Interview with Carey Mulligan for film SUFFRAGETTE
‘Suffragette’ star Carey Mulligan talks about film on women’s fight for vote – By Cate Marquis, Staff Writer for The Current – The film “Suffragette” tells the story of the nearly-forgotten fight women fought for the vote in Britain in the early 20th century, just before World War I. While that fight was led…
BY THE SEA film review – Cate Marquis
Angelina Jolie Pitt directs herself and husband Brad in “By the Sea,” which is mostly eye-candy, especially for Angie fans – Film Review By Cate Marquis – “By The Sea” is a very pretty film – pretty people, pretty locations, pretty clothes, pretty sets full of pretty furniture – all prettily filmed by gifted cinematographer…
HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY PART 2 film review – Cate Marquis
Jennifer Lawrence takes “Hunger Games” out in style – Film Review By Cate Marquis – The Hunger Games series goes out with a big satisfying bang in “Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2.” It is the last in the series, and the ending makes clear that any remaining hunger for Katniss and her saga will have…
LOVE THE COOPERS
– Movie Review By Cate Marquis – The movie “Love the Coopers” opens with Diane Keaton as Charlotte Cooper signing Christmas cards with “Love, the Coopers.” The comma is missing in the movie’s title, which presumably means the filmmakers hope you love the Cooper family. To help with that goal, they have loaded this holiday…
SPECTRE
– Film Review by Cate Marquis – “Spectre” wraps up Daniel Craig’s Bond in style – if he’s leaving Daniel Craig, who reportedly has said he is done playing James Bond, would be wrapping up his run as 007 with style in “Spectre.” While packed with eye-popping set pieces and typically globe-trotting 007 action, some…