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– By Cate Marquis – Musical “Georama” brings tale of once-famous moving panorama painting and artist What did people do for entertainment in the 19th century, before the invention of photography, movies, and all the media we have now? One thing they did was go to live shows like a famous one featuring a “georama”…

– 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…

– 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’ 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,…

– 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…

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…

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 – 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 – 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…

Angelina Jolie Pitt directs herself and husband Brad in “By the Sea,” which is mostly eye-candy, especially for Angie fans – Film Review By Cate Marquis – “By The Sea” is a very pretty film – pretty people, pretty locations, pretty clothes, pretty sets full of pretty furniture – all prettily filmed by gifted cinematographer…