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By: The Catholic Post - July 22, 2016 -
Movie Review
Chris Pine, Sofia Boutella and Anton Yelchin star in a scene from the movie "Star Trek Beyond." The Catholic News Service classification is L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling.(CNS /Paramount)
By Catholic News Service The 13th big-screen outing for the sci-fi franchise that began as a TV series in the 1960s is, overall, a rousing and rambunctious 3-D adventure. Capt. James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) of the Starship Enterprise and his crew (including Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana and Karl Urban) respond to a distress call […]
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By: The Catholic Post - July 15, 2016 -
Movie Review
Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, Kristen Wiig and Leslie Jones star in a scene from the movie "Ghostbusters." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Sony)
By Catholic News Service The tone is light and the emphasis on special effects heavy in this 3-D reboot of the franchise that began with the eponymous 1984 comedy. Director and co-writer Paul Feig shifts the gender balance of the original as three parapsychologists (Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig and Kate McKinnon) band together to track […]
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By: The Catholic Post - July 14, 2016 -
Movie Review
Benjamin Bratt and Bryan Cranston star in a scene from the movie "The Infiltrator." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Broad Green Pictures)
By Catholic News Service Bankers, not cocaine smugglers, are the real villains in this lackluster adaptation of Robert Mazur’s memoir of his takedown of the Medellin drug cartel in the 1980s. Mazur (Bryan Cranston), a U.S. Customs agent, passes himself off as an international financier by day, yet manages to return each evening to a […]
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By: The Catholic Post - July 13, 2016 -
Living the Word
By Sharon Priester Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time/July 17 Genesis 18:1-10a; Psalm 15:2-3,3-4,5; Colossians 1:24-28; Luke 10:38-42 In the Gospel reading last week, a scholar asked Jesus what he must do “to inherit eternal life.” (Luke 10:25) Jesus asked him, “What is written in the law? How do you read it?” (Luke 10:26) The scholar […]
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By: The Catholic Post - July 8, 2016 -
Movie Review
By Catholic News Service The nuptials turn nasty as this potentially enjoyable comedy from director Jake Szymanski departs from its initial promise as a conversion story and instead follows an all-too-familiar path to the gutter. Fed up with their misbehavior and womanizing at social events, the family of two hard-partying brothers (Zac Efron and Adam […]
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By: The Catholic Post - July 7, 2016 -
Movie Review
Max, voiced by Louis C.K., Duke, voiced by Eric Stonestreet and Katie, voiced by Ellie Kemper, appear in the animated movie "The Secret Life of Pets." The Catholic News Service classification is A-I -- general patronage. (CNS/Universal)
By Catholic News Service When a pampered terrier (voice of Louis C.K.) is forced to make room for the new dog (voice of Eric Stonestreet) his owner (voice of Ellie Kemper) has rescued from the pound, their rivalry leads to a series of comic misadventures over the course of which their mutual hostility begins to […]
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By: The Catholic Post - July 6, 2016 -
Movie Review
Alexander Skarsgard stars in a scene from the movie "The Legend of Tarzan." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults.(CNS/Warner Bros.)
By Catholic News Service The latest big-screen take on Edgar Rice Burroughs’ “Lord of the Jungle” creation is a wee bit silly and unspools just a few Victorian gentleman’s whiskers shy of an overblown parody. A loud summertime diversion, it follows Lord Greystoke aka Tarzan (Alexander Skarsgaard) and his wife Jane (Margot Robbie) from England to […]
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By: The Catholic Post - July 6, 2016 -
Movie Review
Edwin Hodge and Frank Grillo star in a scene from the movie "The Purge: Election Year." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive. (CNS/Universal)
By Catholic News Service This third installment in the blood-soaked franchise that started with 2013’s “The Purge” sticks to the commercially tried-and-true formula of appealing to the very impulses it pretends to condemn, using the premise of a dystopian future America where one night a year is set aside for legally sanctioned murder and mayhem […]
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By: The Catholic Post - July 6, 2016 -
Movie Review
Ruby Barnhill and the Big Friendly Giant, voiced by Mark Rylance, appear in the animated movie "The BFG." The Catholic News Service classification is A-I -- general patronage.(CNS/Disney)
By Catholic News Service Lovingly directed by Steven Spielberg, this adaptation of Roald Dahl’s eponymous1982 children’s book combines live actors with motion-capture animation to create superior entertainment for the discerning child who reads — and who enjoys fairy tales with a slightly skewed perspective. The plot centers on the relationship between a 10-year-old London orphan […]
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By: The Catholic Post - June 29, 2016 -
Living the Word
By Sharon Priester Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time/July 3 Isaiah 66:10-14c; Psalm 66:1-3,4-5,6-7,16,20; Galatians 6:14-18; Luke 10:1-12,17-20 Commitment. This word kept popping into my mind as I read and studied the readings this week. I asked myself, “What does it mean to be committed to something and what am I committed to?” Then I decided […]
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