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SOUTHSIDE WITH YOU film review
– 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…
EQUITY film review by Cate Marquis
– 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…
BEN-HUR film review
– 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…
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…
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…
LOVE & FRIENDSHIP film review
– By Cate Marquis – ‘Love & Friendship’ is hilarious, brilliant adaptation of lesser-known Austen work Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Film comedies packed witty, biting humor and whip-smart dialog are pretty rare these days. So “Love & Friendship,” director Whit Stillman’s screen adaptation of Jane Austen’s lesser-known early short novel “Lady Susan,”…
THE MEDDLER film review
– By Cate Marquis – ‘The Meddler” is more than comedy in warm portrait of meddling mother “The Meddler” is writer/director Lorene Scafaria semi-biographical movie about her widowed mother, who moved across the country to build a new life around her grown daughter. The mother, played marvelously by Susan Sarandon, is indeed a meddler…
THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY film review
– By Cate Marquis – Handsome, well-acted ‘The Man Who Knew Infinity’ explores untold true story of math genius “The Man Who Knew Infinity” is a handsome, well-acted historical drama based on the unexpected true story of an India-born, self-taught mathematical genius. In 1913, the young genius was brought to England, by a mathematics…
PAPA: HEMINGWAY IN CUBA film review
-By Cate Marquis – Beautiful but dull ‘Papa: Hemingway in Cuba’ shows why directors matter The fact-inspired film “Papa: Hemingway in Cuba” is a prime example of why a good director matters. As some sage once said, “If it was easy, everyone would do it.” The film is first American film shot in Cuba…