Rollin Binzer’s doc “The Providence Effect” blows a big, slurpy kiss to Chicago’s impressive Providence St. Mel school, which has sent 100 percent of its African-American graduates on to colleges, including Ivy League ones.
As a recruiting film, “Effect” couldn’t be more effusive in its admiration of the West Side school, its faculty and its founder, Paul Adams III, who bought the building from the Catholic Archdiocese and heroically created a model independent school from scratch. Rated: PG. 92 minutes. (Read more…)
Now playing at the Century Centre in Chicago and Skokie’s Village Crossing.