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FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS film review
– 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…
INDIGNATION film review
– By Cate Marquis – INDIGNATION captures restrictive ’50s of Roth’s novel Rating: 4 1/2 out of 5 stars Indignation is indeed one theme in the movie INDIGNATION, based on Phillip Roth’s 2008 novel of the same name, along with death, life, and the “what if” of choices made. Set in 1951, young college…
SAUSAGE PARTY film review
– 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…
SUICIDE SQUAD film review
– 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…
JASON BOURNE film review
– 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…
CAFE SOCIETY film review
– By Cate Marquis – Woody Allen’s ‘Cafe Society’ is bittersweet romantic comedy set in Hollywood fantasy Dictionaries define “cafe society” as the world of socialites who regularly frequent fashionable cafes, nightclubs, resorts, and other fashionable spots. The term originated between 1935-1940, according to the Random House Dictionary, which puts it at the end of…
CAPTAIN FANTASTIC film review by Cate Marquis
– By Cate Marquis – CAPTAIN FANTASTIC is fantastic Rating: 4 1/2 out of 5 stars CAPTAIN FANTASTIC may sound like the title of comic book movie but this warm, thoughtful film centers on a different kind of hero, a father who has devoted his life to his children. He is a fantastic father,…
STAR TREK BEYOND film review by Cate Marquis
– By Cate Marquis – STAR TREK BEYOND delivers on fan-pleasing banter but story is underwhelming Rating: 3 1/2 out of 5 stars “Star Trek: Beyond” offers fans a nice new adventure, with the same terrific cast as the last two. The new film continues Joss Wheedon’s well-crafted reboot of the Star Trek series…
THE INFILTRATOR film review by Mark Glass
– By Mark Glass – The Infiltrator: Compelling production in fact-based drama about 1980s drug wars; another fine showcase role for Bryan Cranston Rating: 3 1/2 out of 5 stars (R) Bryan Cranston stars as an undercover US Customs agent, trying to break up, or at least dent, the rampant drug trade of the…
GHOSTBUSTERS film review by Mark Glass
– By Mark Glass – Ghostbusters: Updated remake honors the original, though overall quality more closely resembles the sequel Rating: 2 1/2 out of 5 stars (PG-13) All you sexists posing as purists who railed at the idea of the guys in the first crew being replaced by women were dead wrong. This updated…