Cate Marquis

– By Cate Marquis – THE 9TH LIFE OF LOUIS DRAX strives for mystery but is just a confusing mess   The fantasy drama THE 9TH LIFE OF LOUIS DRAX is a mystery about an accident-prone young boy, Louis Drax (Aiden Longworth) who has survived a series of near-fatal accidents, eight of them. The last…

– 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…

– 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…

– 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…

– 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…

– 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…

– 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…

– 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…

– 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…

– By Cate Marquis – Damon and director Greengrass return to re-energize series with JASON BOURNE   Matt Damon re-teams with director Paul Greengrass to revitalize the Bourne franchise with JASON BOURNE. Damon starred as amnesiac ex-CIA assassin Jason Bourne in the first three films and Greengrass directed the second and third films, but both…