Cinema
Films showing in the St. Louis region
A GRAIN OF TRUTH – St. Louis Jewish Film Festival – film review
Wednesday, June 7 at 7 PM Plaza Frontenac Cinema – By Cate Marquis – In the chilling crime thriller A GRAIN OF TRUTH, a hard-nosed prosecutor investigates a murder with bizarre and mysterious trappings, and finds himself immersed in Poland’s antisemitic past, a past that keeps resurfacing despite the modern world. Murder, mystery…
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…
THE PROMISE film review
Rating: 3 1/2 out of 5 stars – By Cate Marquis – The Armenian genocide during World War I is the backdrop for THE PROMISE, tale of war and love starring Oscar Isaac, Charlotte Le Bon and Christian Bale. A hundred years on, many people still know little about this early 20th century genocide…
Movie Classics in the Loop at the Tivoli
The new Classics in the Loop Series opens Wednesday, April 5th at the Tivoli! The Tivoli’s vast collection of movie ephemera includes an exact copy of THE Maltese Falcon! All seats $7.00 for this series!
MY LIFE AS A ZUCCHINI film review
French animated MY LIFE AS A ZUCCHINI is a complete charmer – By Cate Marquis – One of this year’s Oscar nominees for Best Animated Feature, the French/Swiss MY LIFE AS A ZUCCHINI (Ma Vie en Courgette) is a complete charmer. The stop-motion children’s film focuses on a lonely boy nicknamed Zucchini (Courgette, in French)…
THE SENSE OF AN ENDING film review
THE SENSE OF AN ENDING explores flaws of memory in memorable personal drama – By Cate Marquis – Memory is a funny thing. One can feel so certain of one’s own memories that it is jarring when others’ recollection of events does not match. The tricks of memory are at the heart of the unforgettable…
THE LAST WORD film review
– By Cate Marquis – In THE LAST WORD, Shirley MacLaine stars as Harriet Lauler, a successful, wealthy but not beloved retired businesswoman, who decides to write her own obituary prior to her death. To craft the perfect obit, she hires a young writer at the local newspaper, played by Amanda Seyfried, mostly for…