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THE MUMMY film review
– By Mark Glass – RATING: 1 out of 5 stars (PG-13) SPOILER ALERT – This review contains plenty, but the film makers deserve them! Reasons not to watch this turkey: 1- Sofia Boutella, who was mesmerizing as the springblade-legged assassin in KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE, is completely wasted in this drab role, despite…
MEGAN LEAVEY film review
– By Cate Marquis – MEGAN LEAVEY is a true story-based drama about young woman whose close bond with a dog changes both of their lives. Although the young woman is a Marine serving in Iraq and the dog is her bomb-sniffing teammate, this really is a touching dog story rather than a war story….
PAST LIFE – St. Louis Jewish Film Festival – film review
Tuesday, June 6 at 1 PM at Plaza Frontenac Cinema – By Cate Marquis – Two sisters uncover their father’s secret past in the true story-based Israeli mystery PAST LIFE, one of the films playing as part of the annual St. Louis Jewish Film Festival. The Israeli film, in Hebrew, English German and…
KEEP QUIET – St. Louis Jewish Film Festival – film review
Thursday, June 8 at 1 PM at Plaza Frontenac Cinema – By Cate Marquis – The mind-boggling documentary KEEP QUIET is about a far-right, anti-Semitic Hungarian politician who discovers his own hidden Jewish heritage when it is revealed that his beloved grandmother is an Auschwitz survivor. Faced with this new reality, he decides…
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…
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…
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)…