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By: The Catholic Post - January 5, 2019 -
Movie Review
Jay Ellis, Taylor Russell, Nick Dodani, Deborah Ann Woll and Logan Miller star in a scene from "Escape Room." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Sony Pictures)
By Catholic News Service Routine thriller in which, lured by a $10,000 reward, a seemingly random group of people (most prominently troubled slacker Logan Miller and shy college student Taylor Russell) participate in what purports to be an immersive game but turns out to be a deadly struggle for survival. Though the victims of the […]
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By: The Catholic Post - December 27, 2018 -
Movie Review
Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly star in a scene from the movie "Holmes & Watson." The Catholic News Service classification is L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. (CNS/Sony Pictures)
By Catholic News Service Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s legendary detective and his doctor sidekick are given a comedic makeover in this mindless, raucous, and exceedingly vulgar film, written and directed by Etan Cohen. Sherlock Holmes (Will Farrell) is feted on his birthday by Queen Victoria (Pam Ferris) at Buckingham Palace. A dead body tumbles out […]
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By: The Catholic Post - December 27, 2018 -
Movie Review
Amy Adams, Christian Bale, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George W. Bush, Sam Rockwell, Steve Carell
Amy Adams, Christian Bale, Sam Rockwell and Andrea Wright star in a scene from the movie "Vice." The Catholic News Service classification is L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. (CNS/Annapurna Pictures)
By Catholic News Service This biography of former Vice President Dick Cheney (Christian Bale) is a gleeful hatchet job in which he comes off as Machiavellian, black-hearted and more demonic than human. The only figure who emerges in even darker tones is his political mentor, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld (Steve Carell), who schemes and […]
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By: The Catholic Post - December 27, 2018 -
Movie Review
Leslie Mann, Merritt Wever, Robert Zemekis, Steve Carell
Steve Carell stars in a scene from the movie "Welcome to Marwen." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Universal)
By Catholic News Service A dedicated effort from Steve Carell fails to redeem this painfully unengaging fact-based tale in which he plays an illustrator left unable to draw after a near-fatal assault by a group of thugs who takes up photography instead, playing out his own psychodrama in a miniature Belgian village he constructs in […]
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By: The Catholic Post - December 20, 2018 -
Movie Review
Dalton Harrod, Jennifer Lopez, Milo Ventimiglia, Peter Segal, Treat Williams, Vanessa Hudgens
Jennifer Lopez and Milo Ventimiglia star in a scene from the movie "Second Act." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/STXfilms)
By Catholic News Service Appealing workplace comedy posits that street smarts should rate at least as highly as an educational pedigree. Director Peter Segal and screenwriters Justin Zackham and Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas have turned the plucky old formula sideways, with the result that their heroine (Jennifer Lopez) is not facing predations such as sexual harassment or a […]
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By: The Catholic Post - December 20, 2018 -
Movie Review
Amber Heard, Aquaman, James Wan, Jason Momoa, Nichole Kidman, Patrick Wilson, Temuera Morrison, Willem Dafoe
Jason Momoa stars in a scene from the movie "Aquaman." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Warner Bros.)
By Catholic News Service A sprawling, lush spectacle, this DC Comics adaptation also is overlong, overcomplicated and, at times, just plain dumb. After washing up on shore wounded, the queen of Atlantis (Nicole Kidman) is nursed back to health by a lighthouse keeper (Temuera Morrison) whom she weds and with whom she has a son […]
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By: The Catholic Post - December 20, 2018 -
Movie Review
Hailee Steinfeld, John Cena, Transformers
Hailee Steinfeld stars in a scene from the movie "Bumblebee." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Paramount)
By Catholic News Service Above-average installment in the sci-fi action “Transformers” franchise, set in 1987, charts the friendship between the shape-shifting alien robot-auto of the title, a yellow Volkswagen Beetle when in car form, and a vulnerable but plucky teen (Hailee Steinfeld). Still mourning her deceased father, whose mechanical skills she inherited, she finds solace in […]
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By: The Catholic Post - December 20, 2018 -
Movie Review
First World War, Peter Jackson
A restored and colorized image showing a group of World War I soldiers is from the documentary "They Shall Not Grow Old." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Warner Bros.)
By Catholic News Service A four-year passion project for director Peter Jackson, this innovative documentary on the First World War establishes an immediacy and intimacy to the 1914-18 global conflict that cost 20 million lives. Archival black-and-white silent footage shot by British cameramen has been restored and colorized, with sound effects added and the oral […]
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By: The Catholic Post - December 20, 2018 -
Movie Review
Angela Landsbury, Ben Whishaw, Dick Van Dyke, Emily Blunt, Emily Mortimer, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Mary Poppins, Meryl Streep, P.L Travers
Emily Blunt stars in a scene from the movie "Mary Poppins Returns," a sequel to the 1964 film "Mary Poppins." The Catholic News Service classification is A-I -- general patronage. (CNS/Jay Maidment, courtesy Disney)
By Catholic News Service Delightful sequel to the 1964 classic finds the omnicompetent nanny of the title (Emily Blunt) swooping into Depression-era London to help the now-grown brother (Ben Whishaw) and sister (Emily Mortimer) she tended as children face a family crisis. He’s a recent widower whose three children (Pixie Davies, Nathanael Saleh and Joel […]
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By: The Catholic Post - December 17, 2018 -
Movie Review
Bradley Cooper, Clint Eastwood, Dianne Wiest, Michael Pena
Clint Eastwood stars in a scene from the movie "The Mule." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Warner Bros.)
By Catholic News Service This ambling, fact-based story of an octogenarian drug runner who becomes a success at it because no one, evidently, believes he’s capable of such a dangerous task is more than a little morally tone deaf. Clint Eastwood, who directed from a script by Nick Schenk, plays an easygoing Illinois horticulturist who […]
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