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By: The Catholic Post - October 15, 2020 -
Movie Review
Oakes Fegley, Robert De Niro, Robert Kimmel Smith, Uma Thurman
Robert De Niro and Oakes Fegley star in a scene from the movie "The War with Grandpa." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/101 Studios)
By Catholic News Service In director Tom Hill’s flimsy comedy, adapted from Robert Kimmel Smith’s novel for children, a recently widowed retiree (Robert De Niro) is convinced by his daughter (Uma Thurman) to move in with her family and is given the bedroom previously occupied by his preteen grandson (Oakes Fegley), who is exiled to […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 15, 2020 -
Movie Review
country music, Dale Watson, Diane Paragas, Eva Noblezada
Eva Noblezada and Dale Watson star in a scene from the movie "Yellow Rose." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Sony Pictures)
By Catholic News Service A Filipina (Eva Noblezada) living in Texas but lacking legal papers faces a series of challenges as she dreams of, and works toward, a career in country music. Her fledgling boyfriend (Liam Booth), the bar owner (Libby Villari) who hires her and the established star (Dale Watson, playing himself) who mentors […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 8, 2020 -
Movie Review
Family Rosary movement, Father Patrick Peyton
This is a movie poster for the 2020 documentary "Pray: The Story of Patrick Peyton." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Family Theater Productions)
By Catholic News Service Moving documentary chronicles the life of Holy Cross Father Patrick Peyton (1909-1992), founder of the Family Rosary movement and tireless advocate of strengthening marital and familial ties through prayer of all kinds. Filmmaker Jonathan Cipiti uses archival recordings and footage as well as interviews with collaborators, friends and those influenced by […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 29, 2020 -
Movie Review
Debra Winger, Evan Rachel Wood, Gina Rodriguez, Richard Jenkins
Evan Rachel Wood, Debra Winger and Richard Jenkins star in a scene from the movie "Kajillionaire." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive. (CNS/Focus Features)
By Catholic News Service Barren comedy about the emotionally repressed 26-year-old daughter (Evan Rachel Wood) of two inveterate petty thieves (Debra Winger and Richard Jenkins) who finds her drab world transformed when a vibrant stranger (Gina Rodriguez) joins up with the family. As the quartet targets lonely senior citizens, the two women fall for each […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 23, 2020 -
Movie Review
Janelle Monae, Kiersey Clemons, Tongayi Chirisa
Janelle Monae stars in a scene from the movie "Antebellum." The Catholic News Service classification is L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. (CNS/Lionsgate)
By Catholic News Service What seems at first to be a historical drama centered on the horrific experiences of an enslaved woman (Janelle Monae) and two of her peers (Tongayi Chirisa and Kiersey Clemons) on a Louisiana cotton plantation (run by Eric Lange and Jack Huston) appears later to be only an extended nightmare in […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 19, 2020 -
Movie Review
Claudia Karvan, Cyrus Nowrasteh, Jim Caviezel
This is the movie poster for "Infidel." The Catholic News Service classification is L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. (CNS/Cloudburst)
By Catholic News Service Invited to appear on Egyptian television, a Christian blogger (Jim Caviezel) asserts the divinity of Jesus on air, for which presumed insult to Islam he’s abducted and tortured first by the Hezbollah in Lebanon and later by Iranian terrorists. The efforts of his wife (Claudia Karvan), a State Department employee, to […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 14, 2020 -
Movie Review
Molly Gordon, Geraldine Viswanathan and Phillipa Soo star in a scene from the movie "The Broken Hearts Gallery." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive. (CNS/TriStar Pictures)
By Catholic News Service Shoddy values undermine the appeal of this romantic comedy, set in New York, that charts the twists and turns in the relationship between a down-on-her-luck art gallery worker (Geraldine Viswanathan) and an aspiring hotelier (Dacre Montgomery) strapped for cash to complete the renovation of his future hostelry. On the rebound from […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 9, 2020 -
Movie Review
Disney, Gong Li, Jason Scott Lee, Jet Li, Niki Caro, Tzi Ma, Yifei Liu, Yoson An
Yifei Liu stars in the title role in "Mulan." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Disney)
By Catholic News Service To spare her father (Tzi Ma), a partially disabled veteran, from having to serve again, the teen girl of the title (Yifei Liu) disguises herself as a young man and answers the Emperor of China’s (Jet Li) summons to take up arms against an invasion force (led by Jason Scott Lee) […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 4, 2020 -
Movie Review
Armando Ianucci, Charles Dickens, Dev Patel, Hugh Laurie, Peter Capaldi, Tilda Swinton
Dev Patel stars in a scene from the 2020 film "The Personal History of David Copperfield." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Dean Rogers, courtesy Twentieth Century Fox)
By Catholic News Service Of the numerous film adaptations of Charles Dickens’ autobiographical 1850 novel, this may rank as the happiest. As directed by Armando Ianucci, who adapted the screenplay with Simon Blackwell, the movie finds Copperfield (Ranveer Jaiswal and Jairaj Varsani as a boy, Dev Patel as a man) facing life’s challenges, which include […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 2, 2020 -
Movie Review
Alex Winter, Dean Parisot, Keanu Reeves
Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves star in a scene from the 2020 film "Bill & Ted Face the Music." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Patti Perret, courtesy Orion Pictures)
By Catholic News Service Nearly three decades on from their second teen adventure, the two amiable, time-traveling, now middle-aged knuckleheads of the title (Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves) are frustrated by their ongoing inability to fulfill a prophecy that they would someday write a song that would unite the world. But the stakes involved in […]
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