DISGRACED theater review
– By Cate Marquis – Rep’s drama ‘Disgraced’ raises troubling questions but offers no answers The Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Disgraced” focuses on being Muslim in America, but perhaps not in the way one might expect. The drama, written by playwright Ayad Akhtar and directed by Seth Gordon, is currently playing at the Repertory Theater of…
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DEADPOOL film review
– By Cate Marquis – Hilarious ‘Deadpool’ wreaks bloody havoc on comic book movie genre “Deadpool” opens with a violent action sequence that features a guy in a superhero costume making hamburger out of a host of adversaries while spouting a non-stop string of wisecracks. But this wisecracking, profane, and even silly character is not…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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LADY IN THE VAN film review
– By Mark Glass – Fact-based dramedy provides another fine vehicle – literally and figuratively – for Maggie Smith 3 stars out of 5 (PG-13) Last week’s review of 45 Years was largely praise of the performance and career of its star, Charlotte Rampling, who deserves to be listed with the likes of this character…
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HAIL, CAESAR! film review
– By Cate Marquis – Coens’ “Hail, Caesar!” spoofs Old Hollywood in style The Coen brothers offer an hilarious send-up of Golden Age Hollywood movie-making in “Hail, Caesar!” With an all-star cast of Coen regulars, including George Clooney, Josh Brolin, Scarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton and Frances McDormand, Joel and Ethan Coen deliver golden comedy set…
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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES cast interview
“Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” cast members talk about upcoming film – By Cate Marquis – The mash-up novel “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” takes Jane Austen’s classic sets it in an England beset by zombies. As the bestselling novel gets ready to debut on movie screens on Feb. 5, cast members Lily James…
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16MM MOVIE NIGHT benefits National Children’s Cancer Society on Feb 8
16 MM MOVIE NIGHT at the Way Out Club, 2525 Jefferson in St. Louis, will screen two complete feature films on old-school 16mm film, on Tuesday, Feb. 9, at 8 p.m. Admission is free but a donation jar will be set out for the National Children’s Cancer Society (NCCS). The films to be shown are…
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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”…
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