Month: August 2016
EQUITY film review by Mark Glass
– By Mark Glass – Tepid drama about Wall Street machinations offers gender novelty, but little else 2 out of 5 stars (R) Most of us think that Wall Street, especially at the highest levels, is populated mainly by overly-privileged jerks…or worse; or MUCH worse. That sentiment grew exponentially after the financial disaster they…
SOUTHSIDE WITH YOU film review
– By Cate Marquis – SOUTHSIDE WITH YOU is sweet, romantic tale of Obamas’ first date Rating: 3 1/2 out of 5 stars SOUTHSIDE WITH YOU is about the day-long first date of President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. The story takes place in Chicago in 1989, when she was a junior…
EQUITY film review by Cate Marquis
– By Cate Marquis – EQUITY is ambitious film about women on Wall Street but not fully successful entertainment Rating: 3 1/2 out of 5 stars EQUITY is a film about Wall Street but not the usual kind. For one thing, it is about women working on Wall Street. The film is also not…
HANDS OF STONE film review
– By Cate Marquis – HANDS OF STONE spotlights boxer Roberto Duran and ‘No Mas’ fight HANDS OF STONE is a biopic about boxer Roberto Duran, who rose from poverty in Panama and under the guidance of legendary trainer Ray Arcel, won and then lost the championship to Sugar Ray Leonard, in an infamous…
BEN-HUR film review
– By Cate Marquis – New 3D BEN-HUR is no classic Rating: 2 out of 5 stars The movies have long been fascinated by “Ben-Hur,” Lew Wallace’s 1880 bestselling novel – two silent versions, a 1907 short one and a spectacular 1925 feature film, and the familiar 1959 Technicolor classic with Charlton Heston. This…
KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS film review
– By Cate Marquis – KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS is lovely, dream-like adventure sure to charm little ones Younger audiences, say under 8, will be entranced by the story in KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS, a tale about a Japanese boy with special powers who goes on an adventure that reveals the mysteries…
FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS film review
– By Cate Marquis – Stephen Frears offers sweet ode to the odd in FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Could singing so bad it provoked laughter raise the spirits of a nation at war? In the case of Florence Foster Jenkins, an heiress and patron of music, it did, although…
INDIGNATION film review
– By Cate Marquis – INDIGNATION captures restrictive ’50s of Roth’s novel Rating: 4 1/2 out of 5 stars Indignation is indeed one theme in the movie INDIGNATION, based on Phillip Roth’s 2008 novel of the same name, along with death, life, and the “what if” of choices made. Set in 1951, young college…
SAUSAGE PARTY film review
– By Cate Marquis – SAUSAGE PARTY wraps adult humor in cartoon food package SAUSAGE PARTY is an animated comedy but in no way is this film for the kiddies. In what may be one of the weirdest animated films ever, cartoon food stuffs in a grocery store discover what really happens when they…
SUICIDE SQUAD film review
– By Cate Marquis – Margot Robbie steals show in comic book villians team-up SUICIDE SQUAD “Suicide Squad,” the latest comic book movie to hit summertime movie screens, features a team of lesser-known villains. The villains form a kind of “Dirty Dozen” team, released from prison to fight other bad guys, under the steely control…