Month: June 2017
FANNY’S JOURNEY – St. Louis Jewish Film Festival – film review
Sunday, June 4 at 7 PM at Plaza Frontenac Cinema – By Cate Marquis – FANNY’S JOURNEY is a compelling true-story-inspired historical drama about a 13-year-old girl who leads a group of 11 children to safety as they flee the advancing Nazis in World War II France. Directed by Loila Doillon, it is…
2017 annual St. Louis Jewish Film Festival, June 4-8, offers “A Global Film Feast”
– By Cate Marquis – The 22nd annual St. Louis Jewish Film Festival takes place June 4-8 at Landmark Plaza Frontenac Cinema. With 16 films from from nine countries, it is truly “A Global Film Feast.” The festival has seven narrative features and nine documentaries. Features include comedies, true-story dramas, mysteries and thrillers. The…
CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS: THE FIRST EPIC MOVIE – film review
– By Mark Glass – This animated comic adventure is based on a series of books about the superhero fantasies of two fourth-graders, mostly at the expense of their rotund, sourpuss principal. We can’t be sure if the part of the title after the colon was intended to mean that all other epics pale…
WONDER WOMAN – film review
– By Mark Glass – I’m not sure what I expected from this version of the saga of our most famous female comic book superhero(ine), but this wasn’t quite it. Gal Godot stars as the Amazon princess, raised in isolation until fate brings the rest of the world to her hidden island home, compelling…