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By: The Catholic Post - May 27, 2019 -
Movie Review
Austin Crute and Noah Galvin star in a scene from the movie "Booksmart." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive. (CNS/Annapurna Pictures)
By Catholic News Service The high school romance film gets a radical makeover by director Olivia Wilde who upends the traditional boy-meets-girl love story, emptying a veritable Pandora’s box of teenage unmentionables onto the big screen. On the night before their high school graduation, two best friends (Beanie Feldstein and Kaitlyn Dever) decide to discover […]
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By: The Catholic Post - May 27, 2019 -
Movie Review
Disney, Guy Ritchie, Mena Massoud, Naomi Scott, Will Smith
Mena Massoud and Naomi Scott star in a scene from the movie "Aladdin." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Disney)
By Catholic News Service Spirited live-action remake of the 1992 animated feature in which the street lad of the title (Mena Massoud) is aided by a genie (Will Smith) both in his seemingly hopeless pursuit of the princess (Naomi Scott) for whom he’s fallen and in thwarting the evil schemes of her father the sultan’s […]
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By: The Catholic Post - May 18, 2019 -
Movie Review
Anjelica Huston, Halle Berry, Ian McShane, John Wick, Keanu Reeves
Keanu Reeves stars in a scene from the movie "John Wick: Chapter 3 -- Parabellum." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive. (CNS/Lionsgate)
By Catholic News Service Slick but nasty action picture in which the assassin of the title (Keanu Reeves), cut off from the worldwide criminal enterprise he previously served and with a sizable bounty on his head, battles hordes of opponents (most prominently Mark Dacascos). Among the few willing to help him are a fellow Belarus-born […]
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By: The Catholic Post - May 16, 2019 -
Movie Review
Bailey as Buddy, a Great Pyrenees Bernese mountain dog, voiced by Josh Gad, and Dennis Quaid appear in the movie "A Dog's Journey." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Universal)
By Catholic News Service This sequel to 2017’s “A Dog’s Purpose” once again follows a beloved pet (voiced by Josh Gad) through a number of lives as he bonds with the granddaughter of the man (Dennis Quaid) who in youth rescued and adopted him. As she journeys through childhood (Emma Volk, Abby Rider Fortson) and […]
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By: The Catholic Post - May 16, 2019 -
Movie Review
Charles Melton, Nicola Yoon, Yara Shahidi
Yara Shahidi and Charles Melton star in a scene from the movie "The Sun Is Also a Star." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Warner/Bros.)
By Catholic News Service Uneven adaptation of Nicola Yoon’s best-selling novel for young adults chronicles a day in the lives of a pragmatic would-be astronomer (Yara Shahidi) struggling to keep her Jamaican family from being deported from New York and a Korean-American true believer in romance (Charles Melton) whose parents are forcing him to become […]
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By: The Catholic Post - May 10, 2019 -
Movie Review
Diane Keaton, Jacki Weaver, Pam Grier, Rhea Perlman
Rhea Perlman, Pam Grier, Diane Keaton, and Jacki Weaver appear in the movie "Poms." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/STXfilms)
By Catholic News Service Well-meaning but feeble comedy in which a retired teacher (Diane Keaton) suffering from ovarian cancer relocates to a community for senior citizens and, together with her new next-door neighbor (Jacki Weaver), organizes a cheerleading club (Rhea Perlman and Pam Grier play its most prominent members). As the squad struggles to overcome […]
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By: The Catholic Post - May 9, 2019 -
Movie Review
Anne Hathaway, Rebel Wilson
Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson star in a scene from the movie The Hustle." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Christian Black, courtesy Metro Goldwyn Mayer)
By Catholic News Service This spiritless, by-the-numbers comedy is a gender-swapped remake of 1988’s “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels,” which was itself based on 1964’s “Bedtime Story.” Two con artists (Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson) in the south of France collaborate to scam $500,000 from someone they think is a tech mogul (Alex Sharp). Working from a […]
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By: The Catholic Post - May 8, 2019 -
Movie Review
Justice Smith, Detective Pikachu, voiced by Ryan Reynolds, and Katrhyn Newton appear in the movie "Pokemon Detective Pikachu." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Warner Bros.)
By Catholic News Service A 21-year-old insurance worker (Justice Smith) hunts for his estranged father, a detective who may or may not have died in a car crash. He’s helped by dad’s pocket-monster partner (voice of Ryan Reynolds), a wisecracking creature he initially dislikes but eventually befriends, and by an aspiring reporter (Kathryn Newton) with […]
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By: The Catholic Post - May 8, 2019 -
Movie Review
J.R.R. Tolkien, Lily Collins, Nicholas Hoult
Nicholas Hoult and Lily Collins star in a scene from the movie "Tolkien." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Fox Searchlight)
By Catholic News Service Sophisticated profile of the future novelist’s youth traces his passage from impoverished schoolboy (Harry Gilby) to Oxford University scholarship student and beleaguered officer in the trenches of World War I (Nicholas Hoult). Along the way, he bonds with a trio of precociously gifted peers (Anthony Boyle, Patrick Gibson and Tom Glynn-Carney) […]
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By: The Catholic Post - May 8, 2019 -
Movie Review
Father Theodore Hesburgh, University of Notre Dame
This is a promotional poster for the new documentary "Hesburgh," about Holy Cross Father Theodore Hesburgh, the priest who led the University of Notre Dame for 35 years. (CNS/courtesy OCP Media)
By Catholic News Service Informative, though wholly uncritical, biographical documentary about Holy Cross Father Theodore Hesburgh (1917-2015) chronicles not only his long tenure as president of the University of Notre Dame but his involvement in cold-war diplomacy, the civil rights movement and shaping the changing character of Catholic higher education. Filmmaker Patrick Creadon’s profile touches […]
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