Cate Marquis
LOVING film review
– By Cate Marquis – LOVING is wonderful, warmly romantic drama about the couple, Richard and Mildred Loving, whose Supreme Court case struck down laws that prevented interracial couples from marrying. Although the court case is part of the story, the film is really about the couple, Richard and Mildred Loving, childhood sweethearts whose deeply…
MOONLIGHT film review
– By Cate Marquis – Haunting, heartbreaking MOONLIGHT is the tale of an African American boy growing to manhood in a Florida housing project. That brief description will likely conjure all the wrong images and expectations for this delicate and brilliant film, which taps into universal elements of growing up while telling a specific…
HACKSAW RIDGE film review
– By Cate Marquis – HACKSAW RIDGE tells the true story of Private Desmond Doss, a medic who won the Congressional Medal of Honor for saving 75 men on Okinawa during World War II. What sets this heroic story apart is that Doss was a pacifist who refused to even carry a gun, much…
THE ACCOUNTANT film review
– By Cate Marquis – Ben Affleck plays autistic math savant as action hero in thriller THE ACCOUNTANT Rating: 3 1/2 out of 5 stars Ben Affleck plays an accountant with some special skills and special challenges in the mystery/action thriller THE ACCOUNTANT. Directed by Gavin O’Connor, what makes THE ACCOUNTANT different from other…
A MAN CALLED OVE film review
– By Cate Marquis – Curmudgeon delights in Swedish comedy A MAN CALLED OVE Rating: 4 out of 5 stars In the Swedish dark comedy A MAN CALLED OVE, director/scriptwriter Hannes Holm takes us on a roller-coaster trip through the life of old curmudgeon. Ove (Rolf Lassgard) is the kind of guy every neighborhood…
DENIAL film review
– By Cate Marquis – ‘Denial’ stars Rachel Weisz as Jewish prof in real-life court battle against Holocaust denier “Denial” is a film adaption of Deborah Lipstadt’s book “History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier.” In the late 1990s, British history writer David Irving sued Jewish-American historian Lipstadt in British…
COME WHAT MAY film review
– By Cate Marquis – COME WHAT MAY shines spotlight on French civilians displaced by WWII Rating: 3 1/2 out of 5 stars In an unusual take on the World War II movie, French director Christian Carion focuses on a group of French villagers attempting to flee on the eve of the German invasion,…
MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN film review
– By Cate Marquis – Tim Burton takes a fresh creative direction with MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Tim Burton’s MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN is the director’s freshest and most original film in years, while still being entirely within the director’s wheelhouse of quirky, colorful,…
STORKS film review
– By Cate Marquis – STORKS delivers laughs for kids and parents Rating: 4 out of 5 stars STORKS takes the old myth of storks delivering babies as a starting point for an animated action/adventure comedy, where the storks have gone corporate and gotten out of the baby delivery business. Now, storks deliver merchandise…
MISS SHARON JONES film review
– By Cate Marquis – MISS SHARON JONES has it all Rating: 5 out of 5 stars You may not have heard of soul singer Sharon Jones but you may have heard her catchy, bluesy tune “100 Days, 100 Nights” this past summer. The tune was used on a TV commercial and if your…