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By: The Catholic Post - March 15, 2018 -
Movie Review
Amy Grant, Bart Millard, Dennis Quaid, Michael W. Smith, Trace Adkins
Bart Millard and Amy Grant star in a scene from the movie "I Can Only Imagine." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions)
By Catholic News Service Dennis Quaid brings his formidable talent to bear in this faith-driven drama, playing an abusive father whose conversion to evangelical Christianity inspired his son (John Michael Finley) to write the eponymous 2001 song, an unprecedented chart-topper that became popular even with nonbelievers. Essentially a biography of Finley’s real-life counterpart, Bart Millard, […]
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By: The Catholic Post - March 15, 2018 -
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evangelization, Peoria Diocesan Council of Catholic Women
Kim Padan
By Kim Padan On Jan. 21, The Catholic Post published an article from CNS discussing a survey of Catholic women indicating a high level of disengagement from the Church. As I read more details online, I felt both heartbroken and concerned. Even more, I felt compelled to reach out to my sisters in faith. The […]
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By: The Catholic Post - March 15, 2018 -
Living the Word
By Shawn Reeves Fifth Sunday of Lent/March 18 Jeremiah 31:31-34; Psalm 51:3-4,12-13,14-15; Hebrews 5:7-9; John 12:20-33 When I was a kid, some of my favorite toys were Transformers. I would spend hours reenacting scenes from the popular cartoon. There was something captivating about cars and aircraft transmuting into robots, because there is something captivating about […]
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By: The Catholic Post - March 15, 2018 -
Movie Review
Alicia Vikander stars in a scene from the movie "Tomb Raider." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Warner Bros.)
By Catholic News Service Murky video-game adaptation in which, seven years after the disappearance of her business tycoon-turned-archeologist father (Dominic West), an heiress (Alicia Vikander), who prefers life as a London bicycle courier to enjoying her riches, follows clues he left behind to track him to an almost uncharted island off the coast of Japan […]
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By: The Catholic Post - March 12, 2018 -
Movie Review
This is a still image from the video animated film "Batman: Gotham by Gaslight." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Warner Home Video)
By Catholic News Service An adequate, if not outstanding, superhero tale, this direct-to-video animated film transports Batman (voice of Bruce Greenwood) and his supporting characters to a Victorian-era version of their home town. There, the Caped Crusader takes on Jack the Ripper, who is murdering prostitutes, just as his real-life counterpart did in London. Offended […]
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By: The Catholic Post - March 10, 2018 -
Movie Review
By Catholic News Service Serviceable mash-up of the apocalyptic weather event and crime caper genres in which two estranged brothers, one a meteorologist (Toby Kebbell), the other a mechanic (Ryan Kwanten), join forces with an ATF agent (Maggie Grace) to foil the crime of the title, an inside job (led by Ralph Ineson) designed to […]
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By: The Catholic Post - March 9, 2018 -
Movie Review
David Oyelowo stars in a scene from the movie "Gringo." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Amazon Studios)
By Catholic News Service Moral dilemmas come fast and furious in this dark, but somehow not cynical, comedy about avarice and its near-instant consequences. Sent to Mexico by his corrupt bosses (Joel Edgerton and Charlize Theron) to seal a crooked deal for his pharmaceutical company, a gullible executive (David Oyelowo), driven by financial desperation, instead […]
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By: The Catholic Post - March 9, 2018 -
Movie Review
horror
Bailee Madison stars in a scene from the movie "The Strangers: Prey at Night." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive. (CNS/Aviron Pictures)
By Catholic News Service Sadistic horror flick in which a couple (Christina Hendricks and Martin Henderson), their rebellious teen daughter (Bailee Madison) and her more compliant older brother (Lewis Pullman) arrive at a lakeside trailer park to visit relatives but find the place eerily deserted. They are soon set upon by a trio of masked, […]
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By: The Catholic Post - March 7, 2018 -
Movie Review
Ava DuVernay, Chris Pine, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Madeleine L'Engle, Mindy Kaling, New Age, Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon
Reese Witherspoon and Storm Reid star in a scene from the movie "A Wrinkle in Time." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Disney)
By Catholic News Service New Age-style bromides dominate the script of this often eye-pleasing adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s 1962 novel for young adults. Four years after the unexplained disappearance of her father (Chris Pine), a NASA scientist who, together with his physicist wife (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), had developed an unorthodox method of time and space travel, […]
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By: The Catholic Post - March 2, 2018 -
Movie Review
Bruce Willis stars in a scene from the movie "Death Wish." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive.
By Catholic News Service Even dressed up with some style and the presumption of wit, this remake is the same nihilistic racist vigilante fantasy that the five films in the first series were years ago. Director Eli Roth and screenwriter Joe Carnahan have set the tale of Paul Kersey, originally a New York architect played by […]
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