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By: The Catholic Post - April 13, 2019 -
Movie Review
Chris Butler, Hugh Jackman, Stephen Fry, Timothy Olyphant, Zach Galifianakis, Zoe Saldana
Sir Lionel Frost, voiced by Hugh Jackman, and Mr. Lin, voiced by Zach Galifianakis, appear in a scene from the animated movie "Missing Link." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Annapurna Pictures)
By Catholic News Service In this animated comedy-adventure, a spirited send-up of Victorian England, a world-famous investigator of myths and monsters (voice of Hugh Jackman), anxious to qualify for membership in a London club by making a major discovery, travels to America to find Bigfoot (voice of Zach Galifianakis), aka the missing link. He’s tracked […]
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By: The Catholic Post - April 13, 2019 -
Movie Review
Josephine Langford and Selma Blair star in a scene from the movie "After." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Aviron)
By Catholic News Service What might have been an effective film interpretation of a somewhat grounded college romance in Anna Todd’s best-selling “new adult” novel sadly turns into a parade of wooden archetypes. Two literate protagonists, she (Josephine Langford) mostly chaste, he (Hero Fiennes Tiffin) brooding and tattooed with a mysterious, somewhat troubled background, serve […]
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By: The Catholic Post - April 10, 2019 -
Movie Review
Daniel Dae Kim, David Harbour, Mike Mignola, Milla Jovovich, Neil Marshall
Sasha Lane, David Harbour and Daniel Dae Kim star in a scene from the movie "Hellboy." 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 The demon-fighting title character (David Harbour), who appeared in two films in 2004 and 2008, gets a gritty reboot courtesy of director Neil Marshall and screenwriter Andrew Cosby. In adapting graphic novels by Mike Mignola, they’ve given him a considerable existential crisis, nagging father issues and an arch-nemesis (Milla Jovovich) who […]
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By: The Catholic Post - April 10, 2019 -
Movie Review
Marsai Martin, Regina Hall, Tina Gordon
Issa Rae and Marsai Martin star in a scene from the movie "Little." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Universal)
By Catholic News Service A successful but outrageously rude businesswoman (Regina Hall) learns to be more considerate after a little girl (Marley Taylor) casts a spell that turns her back into a 13-year-old middle schooler (Marsai Martin) and the only person she can share her secret with is her much-put-upon personal assistant (Issa Rae). Wholly […]
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By: The Catholic Post - April 5, 2019 -
Movie Review
Ku Klux Klan, Osha Gray Davidson, Sam Rockwell, Taraji P. Henson
Sam Rockwell, Babou Ceesay and Taraji P. Henson star in a scene from the movie "The Best of Enemies." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/STXfilms)
By Catholic News Service Appealing fact-based drama, set in 1971 Durham, North Carolina, in which a no-nonsense civil rights activist (Taraji P. Henson) and the head of the local Ku Klux Klan (Sam Rockwell) are forced to spend time together as leading participants in an arbitration process (steered by Babou Ceesay) deciding the future of […]
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By: The Catholic Post - April 5, 2019 -
Movie Review
Amy Seimetz, Jason Clarke, Stephen King
Jete Laurence stars in a scene from the movie "Pet Sematary." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive. (CNS/Paramount Pictures)
By Catholic News Service After relocating from Boston to rural Maine, a doctor (Jason Clarke), his wife (Amy Seimetz) and their 9-year-old daughter (Jete Laurence) find themselves living near the burial place of the title beyond which lies a second cemetery of a different kind, one from which the dead can emerge revivified. All this […]
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By: The Catholic Post - April 4, 2019 -
Movie Review
David F. Sandberg, DC Comics, Zachary Levi
Jack Dylan Grazer and Zachary Levi star in a scene from the movie "Shazam." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Warner Bros.)
By Catholic News Service Endowed by a wizard (Djimon Hounsou) with the ability to transform himself, by dint of the titular exclamation, into a superhero with the body of an adult (Zachary Levi), a 14-year-old foster child (Asher Angel) does battle with a formidable villain (Mark Strong) who wants the lad to surrender his newfound […]
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By: The Catholic Post - April 3, 2019 -
Movie Review
Matthias Schoenaerts stars in a scene from the movie "The Mustang." The Catholic News Service classification is A-lll -- adults. (CNS/Focus Features)
By Catholic News Service Director Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre, who co-wrote the screenplay with Mona Fastvold and Brock Norman Brock, has tailored this drama around a real-life horse-taming program for inmates operated by the Bureau of Land Management. A prisoner (Matthias Schoenaerts) at Northern Nevada Correctional Center learns to soothe both his own demons and the […]
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By: The Catholic Post - March 31, 2019 -
Movie Review
Colin Farrell, Danny DeVito, Disney, Michael Keaton, Tim Burton
Colin Farrell, Nico Parker and Finley Hobbins star in a scene from the movie "Dumbo." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Disney)
By Catholic News Service Lush but insubstantial live-action reimagining of the 1941 animated classic, set in 1919, in which the young elephant of the title becomes a pawn in a struggle to profit from the fact that his outsized ears enable him to fly. Out to protect him are a wounded and recently widowed World […]
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By: The Catholic Post - March 31, 2019 -
Movie Review
Isla Fisher, Jonah Hill, Matthew McConaughey, Snoop Dogg
Matthew McConaughey and Snoop Dogg star in a scene from the movie "The Beach Bum." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive.(CNS/Neon)
By Catholic News Service Relentlessly immoral and annoying comedy follows the exploits of a boorish hedonist (Matthew McConaughey) who is also, supposedly, a gifted writer as he pursues a Bohemian lifestyle in the Florida Keys. His rich wife (Isla Fisher) supports his antics even as she carries on an affair with one of his closest […]
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