Day: February 19, 2016
TOUCHED WITH FIRE film review
– By Cate Marquis – “Touched With Fire” paints pretty pictures but sometimes inaccurate portrait of mental illness Katie Holmes stars as a poet with bi-polar disorder who falls for another poet,who is also bi-polar, during a hospitalization in director Paul Dalio’s romance “Touched With Fire.” While “Touched With Fire” is a lushly pretty, romantic…
RACE film review
– By Cate Marquis – “Race” strives but falls short in telling tale of Jesse Owen’s Olympic glory Olympic great Jesse Owens is a worthy subject for big, splashy Hollywood movie. Owens, an African American had to overcome the hurdles of racial discrimination just to compete in track and field, not only earned a record-breaking…
THE WITCH film review
– By Cate Marquis – Atmospheric, historic “The Witch” is more creepy than scary “The Witch” is an ambitious film that seeks to re-imagine of the horror movie genre by going back to the terror of the Salem witch trials and the 17th century witch-hunt hysteria that led to them. Set in 1630s New England,…