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By: The Catholic Post - July 18, 2019 -
Movie Review
Alfre Woodard, Beyonce, Billy Eichner, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Donald Glover, James Earl Jones, Jon Favreau, Seth Rogan
The characters Nala, voiced by Beyonce Knowles-Carter, and Simba, voiced by Donald Glover, appear in the movie "The Lion King." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Disney)
By Catholic News Service Director Jon Favreau’s remake of the 1994 animated musical uses a blend of live-action techniques and computer-generated imagery to tell the story of a lovable young lion (voice of Donald Glover) with a royal destiny. While his birth is greeted with joy by most of the animals over whom his parents […]
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By: The Catholic Post - July 12, 2019 -
Movie Review
alligators, Barry Pepper, Horror flick, Kaya Scodelario
Barry Pepper and Kaya Scodelario star in a scene from the movie "Crawl." 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 Gory horror flick, set in Florida, traps a semi-estranged father (Barry Pepper) and daughter (Kaya Scodelario) in a basement crawl space that’s rapidly being flooded by a hurricane and pits them against a host of man-eating alligators. Those not put off by watching the main characters be gnawed on and the […]
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By: The Catholic Post - July 9, 2019 -
Movie Review
Dave Bautista, Kumail Nanjiani, Uber
Dave Bautista and Kumail Nanjiani star in a scene from the movie "Stuber." The Catholic News Service classification is L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. (CNS/Fox)
By Catholic News Service Unable to drive after outpatient eye surgery, an aggressively macho police detective (Dave Bautista) is forced to call an Uber when he suddenly gets a lead on the whereabouts of the drug dealer (Iko Uwais) he’s been obsessively pursuing ever since the pusher killed his partner. The timid driver who responds […]
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By: The Catholic Post - July 5, 2019 -
Movie Review
By Catholic News Service All dressed up as slow-moving psychological horror, writer-director Ari Aster’s film is, in fact, an exercise in crude exploitation. Perpetually on the verge of breaking up, a couple of university students (Florence Pugh and Jack Reynor) seek to ease the tension by joining his graduate-school friends (William Jackson Harper, Will Poulter […]
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By: The Catholic Post - June 28, 2019 -
Movie Review
Jake Gyllenhaal, Samuel L. Jackson, Tom Holland, Zendaya
Numan Acar, Tom Holland and Jake Gyllenhaal star in a scene from the movie "Spider-Man: Far From Home." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Sony)
By Catholic News Service True to its title, this snappy follow-up to 2017’s “Spider-Man: Homecoming” finds the eponymous superhero (Tom Holland) traveling across Europe on a summer trip organized for the students of his alter ego Peter Parker’s high school. He wants to spend the journey courting the classmate with whom he’s smitten (Zendaya). But […]
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By: The Catholic Post - June 26, 2019 -
Movie Review
"Conjuring", Gary Dauberman, Mckenna Grace, Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga
Madison Iseman, Katie Sarife and McKenna Grace star in a scene from the movie "Annabelle Comes Home." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Warner Bros.)
By Catholic News Service Lame third installment in the saga of the titular devilish dolly, set in the early 1970s, opens with her being safely locked away in the home of real-life do-it-yourself demonologists Ed (Patrick Wilson) and Lorraine (Vera Farmiga) Warren. But when the couple travel out of town a year later, leaving their […]
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By: The Catholic Post - June 25, 2019 -
Movie Review
Beatles, Danny Boyle, Ed Sheeran, Himesh Patel, Kate McKinnon, Lily James, Richard Curtis
Himesh Patel stars in a scene from the movie "Yesterday." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Universal)
By Catholic News Service A British-Indian shelf stocker (Himesh Patel) whose side career as a musician and singer is going nowhere finds his life transformed when a brief but global blackout somehow retroactively removes the Beatles from history and from everyone’s memory except his. That leaves him free to become the world’s most famous performer […]
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By: The Catholic Post - June 21, 2019 -
Movie Review
Animated characters Buzz Lightyear, voiced by Tim Allen, Woody, voiced by Tom Hanks, and Bo, voiced by Annie Potts, appear in the movie "Toy Story 4." The Catholic News Service classification is A-I -- general patronage. (CNS/Disney)
By Catholic News Service Delightful addition to the animated franchise in which the cowboy leader (voice of Tom Hanks) of the familiar gang of toys who come to life when humans aren’t looking becomes the mentor of a homemade doll (voice of Tony Hale) his kid owner (voice of Madeleine McGraw) fashioned primarily out of […]
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By: The Catholic Post - June 21, 2019 -
Movie Review
Cillian Murphy, Helen Mirren, Luc Besson, Sasha Luss, spy drama
Sasha Luss stars in a scene from the movie "Anna." 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 This stylish, seat-of-your-pants thriller, written and directed by Luc Besson, reinvigorates the spy drama with more twists and turns than a roller coaster. In 1985 Russia, a young woman (Sasha Luss) is recruited by a KGB. agent (Luke Evans) to join the ranks under the tutelage of a crusty former spy […]
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By: The Catholic Post - June 20, 2019 -
Movie Review
Aubrey Plaza, Lars Klevberg, Mark Hamill
Chucky and Gabriel Bateman appear ijn the movie "Child's Play." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive. (CNS/Orion Pictures)
By Catholic News Service This remake of the 1988 film about a toy doll (voice of Mark Hamill) run amok is a black comedy awash in sadistic violence and gore, directed Lars Klevberg. A single mother (Aubrey Plaza) gives her lonely son (Gabriel Bateman) an artificial-intelligence doll as a companion. Unbeknownst to her, this doll […]
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