All posts by Cate Marquis
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BORIS KARLOFF: THE MAN BEHIND THE MONSTER – Review
BORIS KARLOFF: THE MAN BEHIND THE MONSTER is a gloriously enjoyable retrospective of the legendary actor, who is...
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BLUE BAYOU – Review
Is it fair that a small child, legally adopted from another nation, is responsible for paperwork errors about...
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LANGUAGE LESSONS – Review
A surprise gift of Spanish lessons via Zoom launches the funny, charming, and touching LANGUAGE LESSONS, a comedy...
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THE ALPINIST – Review
Some people are driven to climb mountains, simply because they are there, as Sir Edmund Hilary famously said....
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THE BIG SCARY “S” WORD – Review
In honor of Labor Day, how about a documentary about the idea that led to labor unions? That...
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THE LOST LEONARDO – Review
“This is the most improbable story that has ever happened in the art world,” is how the subject...
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TOGETHER – Review
Pandemic lock-down was such a universal experience that it was inevitable there would be a film about it....
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REMINISCENCE – Review
REMINISCENCE stars Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Ferguson and Thandiwe Newton in a twisty sci-fi mystery that is part BLADE...
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NINE DAYS – Review
In the Sundance hit NINE DAYS, a serious, melancholy man interviews candidates in a nine-day process to pick...
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THE GREEN KNIGHT – Review
THE GREEN KNIGHT is writer/director David Lowery’s (A GHOST STORY) imaginative re-telling of the Arthurian tale “Sir Gawain...
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OLD – Review
There is hardly anything scarier to Hollywood, or even to American culture generally, than growing old, and something...
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THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES – Review
A walk in the woods is a lovely thing but when it is nature tour is led by...
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THE LONELIEST WHALE: THE SEARCH FOR 52 – Review
A whale, apparently the only one of its kind, wandering the Pacific and persistently calling with no answer,...
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TRUMAN AND TENNESSEE: AN INTIMATE CONVERSATION – Review
Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams were literary giants of the mid-20th century but they were also friends. TRUMAN...
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FATHOM – Review
Fathom is a word that can mean a measurement of sea depth or a struggle to understand a...
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12 MIGHTY ORPHANS – Review
This true-story film is a feel-good lesson in brains over brawn and the value of persistence, a Depression-era...
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HERE WE ARE – Review
The soundtrack to Charlie Chaplin’s THE KID opens the father-son tale HERE WE ARE, award-winning Israeli director Nir...
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BREAKING BREAD – JFF Review
The Israeli documentary BREAKING BREAD, which is part of the St. Louis Jewish Film Festival, June 5-13, begins...
