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By: The Catholic Post - December 14, 2018 -
Movie Review
Robert Sheehan, Jihae and Hera Hilmar star in a scene from the movie "Mortal Engines." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Universal)
By Catholic News Service Visually impressive but dramatically sterile adventure set in a dystopian far future where huge mobile cities roam around battling one another for scarce resources. Thrown together by chance, a previously contented citizen of locomotive London (Robert Sheehan) and a rebel warrior (Hera Hilmar) put aside their initial differences to fight the […]
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By: The Catholic Post - December 13, 2018 -
Movie Review
Fred Savage and Deadpool, played by Ryan Reynolds, star in a scene from the movie "Once Upon a Deadpool." 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 Slightly reworked version of “Deadpool 2” designed to qualify for a less restrictive rating from the Motion Picture Association of America. Besides subtractions of violence and gore, there’s the addition of a framing narrative in which the snarky superhero of the title (Ryan Reynolds, who also co-wrote the script) recounts his […]
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By: The Catholic Post - December 7, 2018 -
Movie Review
This is a scene from the animated movie "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II adults and adolescents. (CNS/Sony)
By Catholic News Service Innovative but noisy and frenetic animated take on the Marvel Comics superhero saga focuses on a Brooklyn teen (voice of Shameik Moore) who, like the original before him, acquires web-slinging abilities after being bitten by a radioactive arachnid. When a villain (voice of Liev Schreiber) opens a portal to other dimensions, […]
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By: The Catholic Post - December 6, 2018 -
Movie Review
John C. Reilly, Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, Steve Coogan
Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly star in a scene from the movie "Stan & Ollie." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II adults and adolescents. (CNS/Sony Pictures Classics)
By Catholic News Service Film comedy icons Stan Laurel (Steve Coogan) and Oliver Hardy (John C. Reilly), fight off age and obscurity with immense courage during what would be their final tour of British music halls in 1953. Director Jon Baird and screenwriter Jeff Pope have achieved a poignant, pitch-perfect, affectionately nostalgic story without much […]
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By: The Catholic Post - December 5, 2018 -
Movie Review
Ben Kingsley, Holocaust, Liam Neeson, Oskar Schindler, Ralph Fiennes, Steven Spielberg
Liam Neeson and Ben Kingsley star in a scene from the 1993 movie "Schindler's List." To commemorate the 25th anniversary of Steven Spielberg's award-winning film, Universal will be re-releasing the movie in a limited engagement Dec. 7. The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Universal)
By Catholic News Service EDITOR’S NOTE: This review originally ran Dec. 17, 1993. The movie is being re-released Dec. 7 on 1,000 screens in the U.S., including theaters in central Illinois. Check your local listings. — Sobering account of an opportunistic German businessman (Liam Neeson) who comes to occupied Poland to make his fortune by exploiting […]
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By: The Catholic Post - November 30, 2018 -
Movie Review
Shay Mitchell stars in a scene from the movie "The Possession of Hannah Grace." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Sony)
By Catholic News Service Dreary horror tale in which an ex-cop (Shay Mitchell) with mental and addiction problems who now works the night shift at a Boston hospital’s morgue is confused to find one of the cadavers in her care, that of a teen girl (Kirby Johnson) who died during a failed exorcism, refusing to […]
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By: The Catholic Post - November 24, 2018 -
Movie Review
Dolph Lundgren, Florian Munteanu, Michael B. Jordan, Rocky, Sylvester Stallone, Tessa Thompson
Sylvester Stallone, Wood Harris, Michael B. Jordan and Jacob Duran star in a scene from the movie "Creed II." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/MGM)
By Catholic News Service Viewers will know what to expect from this extension of the “Rocky” franchise long before they buy a ticket. Yet the tried and true, against-the-odds formula still works somehow. Early on in this chapter of the saga, the boxer of the title (Michael B. Jordan), with the help of his hard-driving […]
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By: The Catholic Post - November 24, 2018 -
Movie Review
anti-Catholic, F. Murray Abraham, Jamie Foxx, Taron Egerton
Taron Egerton stars in a scene from the movie "Robin Hood." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive. (CNS/Lionsgate)
By Catholic News Service Vicious anti-Catholicism permeates this otherwise merely dopey take on the classic legend. Taron Egerton as the titular outlaw teams with a Muslim warrior (Jamie Foxx) he met while fighting the film’s chronologically unmoored version of the Third Crusade to thwart the evil schemes of the Sheriff of Nottingham (Ben Mendelsohn) and […]
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By: The Catholic Post - November 24, 2018 -
Movie Review
John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman, Wreck-It Ralph
Animated characters Ralph and Vanellope star in a scene from the movie "Ralph Breaks the Internet." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Disney)
By Catholic News Service Sweet animated follow-up in which the two arcade game characters central to 2012’s “Wreck-It Ralph,” the burly eponymous demolition specialist (voice of John C. Reilly) and his best friend (voice of Sarah Silverman), a diminutive race car driver, find both their resourcefulness and their relationship put to the test when a […]
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By: The Catholic Post - November 19, 2018 -
Movie Review
Anthony Vallelonga, Don Shirley, Mahershala Ali, Peter Farrelly, Viggo Mortensen
Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali star in a scene from the movie "Green Book." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Universal Studios)
By Catholic News Service High-minded saga of race relations in 1962 is hobbled by sentimentality and doesn’t so much lean into stereotypes as take flying, cringe-worthy leaps. It’s based on a real concert tour through the Midwest and South taken by African-American pianist Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali) in the company of Anthony “Tony Lip” Vallelonga […]
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