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SON OF SAUL film review
– By Cate Marquis – ‘Son of Saul’ is a powerful, difficult trip into Auschwitz “Son of Saul” is a powerful, cinematically brilliant drama that takes viewers into a first-person experience of the Auschwitz concentration camp. It is an impressive film debut for Hungarian director Laszlo Nemes, a descendant of Shoah survivors. The film won…
THE REVENANT film review
– By Cate Marquis – DiCaprio is gripping in epic wilderness survival tale ‘The Revenant’ Leonardo DiCaprio gives a gripping, Oscar-worthy performance in “The Revenant,” director Alejandro G. Inarritu’s thrilling, raw tale of wilderness survival in a landscape that is at once beautiful and unforgiving. Loosely based on the 1823 true tale of frontiersman Hugh…
SISTERS film review
– By Cate Marquis – Comedy ‘Sisters’ takes Fey and Poehler where you expect but it is one fun trip “Sisters” stars Tina Fey and Amy Poehler as two sisters who decide to cope with their parents’ decision to sell their childhood home by throwing one last high school-style party. The Ellis sisters, Maura and…
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS film review – Cate Marquis
‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ re-awakens spirit of Lucas’ original – Film Review By Cate Marquis – “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” brings back the magic that George Lucas created long ago in his galaxy far, far away. The film, which is both Episode 7 and the seventh one, brings back original stars Harrison Ford,…
IN THE HEART OF THE SEA film review
– By Cate Marquis – ‘In The Heart Of The Sea’ looks great but fitful storytelling sinks seafaring tale Herman Melville’s novel “Moby Dick” was based in part on a real event, the sinking of the Essex by a whale, part of the whaling lore of Nantucket. That bit of real history was recounted in…
TRUMBO film review – Cate Marquis
Inspiring ‘Trumbo’ exposes anti-Semitism of Hollywood blacklist – Film Review By Cate Marquis for the Jewish Light – The Hollywood blacklist marked a dark period in American history. Cold War fear of communists gripped the nation, and a Washington-based witch hunt sought to find anyone with even an imagined link to communism. Suspicion fell on…
Interview with Saoirse Ronan on film BROOKLYN
Saoirse Ronan speaks on her new film ‘Brooklyn’ – By Cate Marquis, Staff Writer for The Current – Actress Saoirse Ronan was born in New York but her parents returned to their native Ireland with her when she was three. So “Brooklyn,” a film about a young Irish woman, Eilis, who moves to America in…
TRUMBO film review – Mark Glass
TRUMBO film review – Film Review By Mark Glass – Grade: 4 ½ out of 5 stars Rating: R Dalton Trumbo was one of Hollywood’s leading screenwriters throughout the 1940s. But shortly after WW II, the country morphed into its Cold War mentality, with Communism denounced as the new existential threat before we’d barely…
THE NIGHT BEFORE film review – Mark Glass
THE NIGHT BEFORE film review – Film Review By Mark Glass – Grade: 3 out of 5 stars Rating: R This will likely be the raunchiest Christmas comedy of the year, but don’t judge it solely on that basis. Seth Rogen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Anthony Mackie play old friends who’ve maintained a tradition of Christmas…
THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY – PART 2 film review – Mark Glass
THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY – PART 2 film review – Film Review By Mark Glass – Grade: 2 out of 5 stars Rating: PG-13 If you’re obsessed with this fantasy series, you might have enough patience to find this fourth and final installment worthwhile. It does finish the saga with reasonable outcomes, but the path…