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By: The Catholic Post - October 1, 2021 -
Movie Review
animated, Charles Addams, Charlize Theron, Oscar Isaac, Wallace Shawn
This is a movie poster for "The Addams Family 2." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/MGM)
By Catholic News Service In this animated sequel to the 2019 film, directed again by Greg Tiernan and Conrad Vernon, the beloved characters from the imagination of Charles Addams are as creepy, kooky, mysterious and spooky as ever, and the humor remains dark and macabre, but overall good-natured. Gomez (voice of Oscar Isaac) and Morticia […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 1, 2021 -
Movie Review
Andy Serkis, Marvel Comics, Naomie Harris, Tom Hardy, Woody Harrelson
This is a scene from the movie "Venom: Let There Be Carnage." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Sony Pictures)
By Catholic News Service The sequel to 2018’s “Venom,” directed by Andy Serkis, is two films in one: a raucous buddy comedy about an investigative journalist (Tom Hardy) and the eponymous alien lizard learning to coexist, and a loud and violent action thriller with multiple villains, all worthy of the Marvel comic source material. An […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 1, 2021 -
Movie Review
Jon Bernthal, Michael Gandolfini, The Sopranos
This is a scene from the movie "The Many Saints of Newark." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Warner Bros. Pictures)
By Catholic News Service Not so much a prequel to “The Sopranos” than a richly textured origin story of Tony Soprano, this is a matter of details to fans of the long-running drama, and confusing to anyone else. Screenwriters David Chase and Lawrence Konnor and director Alan Taylor show us that Tony’s belief, expressed in […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 27, 2021 -
Movie Review
Amy Adams, Ben Platt, Colton Ryan, Danny Pino, Julianne Moore, Kaitlyn Dever, Stephen Chbosky, Steven Levenson
Ben Platt and Kaitlyn Dever star in a scene from the movie "Dear Evan Hansen." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Universal Pictures)
By Catholic News Service Ben Platt reprises his Broadway role as the angst-ridden teen of the title in director Stephen Chbosky’s screen version of the award-winning 2016 musical drama. After the troubled brother (Colton Ryan) of the fellow student for whom the lad yearns (Kaitlyn Dever) takes his own life, a misunderstanding leads the parents […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 27, 2021 -
Movie Review
Clint Eastwood, Dwight Yoakam, Eduardo Minett, Natalia Traven
Clint Eastwood stars in a scene from the movie "Cry Macho." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Warner Bros. Pictures)
By Catholic News Service Clint Eastwood directed and stars in this gentle, though naive, road movie, set in 1980. He plays a burned-out rodeo star who, at the behest of his ex-boss (Dwight Yoakam), a Texas rancher, travels to Mexico to find the cattleman’s preteen son (Eduardo Minett) and bring him to the States to […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 22, 2021 -
News Article
Kristi Hofferber
After being canceled in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the annual Respect Life Dinner in Peoria is scheduled to return in early October with a few changes. This year the dinner will be served at the Spalding Pastoral Center, 419 N.E. Madison Ave., on Saturday, Oct. 2 — the eve of Respect Life Sunday. […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 22, 2021 -
News Article
During this Year of St. Joseph, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops looks to his example as the protector of Jesus and Mary as Respect Life Month begins and asks, “St. Joseph, defender of life, pray for us!” That prayerful reflection begins next Sunday, Oct. 3, which is Respect Life Sunday. On that day, people […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 22, 2021 -
Living the Word
Tim Irwin
By Tim Irwin Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time/Sept. 26 Numbers 11:25-29; Psalm 19:8,10,12-13,14; James 5:1-6; Mark 9:38-43,45,47-48 This Sunday’s Gospel explores the question: who speaks authentically on behalf of Jesus? It also offers a stern message concerning those things that might stop us from fully accepting the invitation from Jesus to live as his disciples. The […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 22, 2021 -
Columnists
"Cruella embraces an identity that denies the goodness within her and damages her relationships with others," writes Lindsey Weishar of the subject of the movie "Cruella," portrayed here by Emma Stone. (CNS photo/Laurie Sparham, Disney Enterprises, Inc.)
My Vocation is Love / Lindsey Weishar A facet of the 21st century I appreciate is film and literature’s interest in the boundary between good and evil. Though the culture also has huge blind spots when it comes to identifying good and evil, it does well in troubling the idea that a person is either […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 22, 2021 -
Columnists
In My Father’s House / Paul Thomas Moore My singing teacher has been trying to coach me on dropping my jaw on the inbreath before a high note. I tend to either breathe and then drop the jaw, or the other way around. She recently introduced a way to manage this coordination without my having […]
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