Month: January 2016
SAG AWARDS 2016
Screen Actors Guild Awards 2016 winners and nominees Winners were announced Jan. 30, 2016. Here is the list of nominees and winners: Performance by a cast in a motion picture “Beasts of No Nation” “The Big Short” “Straight Outta Compton” “Trumbo” WINNER: “Spotlight” Performance by a male actor in a leading role Bryan Cranston, “Trumbo”…
MOMIX “ALCHEMIA” (DANCE ST. LOUIS) dance review
– By Cate Marquis – Dance St. Louis brings Momix’s dance fantasy ‘Alchemia’ to Touhill PAC Dance St. Louis brought the amazing dancer-illusionists Momix back to the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center for three performances of their fantasy production “Alchemia,” on Jan. 29-30.Once again the troupe wowed audiences with a mix of breath-taking dance,…
SON OF SAUL film review
– By Cate Marquis – ‘Son of Saul’ is a powerful, difficult trip into Auschwitz “Son of Saul” is a powerful, cinematically brilliant drama that takes viewers into a first-person experience of the Auschwitz concentration camp. It is an impressive film debut for Hungarian director Laszlo Nemes, a descendant of Shoah survivors. The film won…
GEORAMA theater review
– By Cate Marquis – Musical “Georama” brings tale of once-famous moving panorama painting and artist What did people do for entertainment in the 19th century, before the invention of photography, movies, and all the media we have now? One thing they did was go to live shows like a famous one featuring a “georama”…
2016 OSCAR NOMINEES ANNOUNCED
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) has released the nominees for the 2016 Academy Awards, the Oscars for 2015 films. The winners will be announced Feb. 28, 2016. Below are the nominees.
AWFJ 2015 EDA AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED
The Alliance of Women Film Journalists, an international organization of women film critics and journalists, announced the winners of their annual EDA Awards for 2015 films. More information about AWFJ and the EDA Awards can be found at their website http://awfj.org. AWFJ released the statement below January 13, 2016. 2015 EDA Award Winners With sincerest…
THE REVENANT film review
– By Cate Marquis – DiCaprio is gripping in epic wilderness survival tale ‘The Revenant’ Leonardo DiCaprio gives a gripping, Oscar-worthy performance in “The Revenant,” director Alejandro G. Inarritu’s thrilling, raw tale of wilderness survival in a landscape that is at once beautiful and unforgiving. Loosely based on the 1823 true tale of frontiersman Hugh…
BEST FILMS OF 2015
‘Spotlight,’ ‘Big Short’ among the Top 15 films for 2015 – By Cate Marquis – This year turned out to be a good one for cinema. Some years it is a struggle to find ten worthy films for a list of the year’s best. Not so this year. In fact, 2015 offered so many good…
WORST FILMS of 2015
Although 2015 brought many good films, there were stinkers too – By Cate Marquis – Even a year full of good films, like 2015, still has some movies that are not-so-good, even some true stinkers. Although there were bad films I did not see, here are my choices for the worst films of the year…