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By: The Catholic Post - October 2, 2018 -
Movie Review
Bex Taylor-Klaus, Christian James, Reign Edwards and Amy Forsyth star in a scene from the movie "Hell Fest." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive. (CNS/courtesy CBS Films)
By Catholic News Service Nasty gorefest in which a real-life serial killer (Stephen Conroy) stalks the traveling horror carnival of the title, eventually targeting a college student (Amy Forsyth) as she, her date (Roby Attal) and two other couples (Reign Edwards, Christian James, Bex Taylor-Klaus and Matt Mercurio) wander among the macabre attractions. Director Gregory […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 2, 2018 -
Movie Review
Tiffany Haddish and Kevin Hart star in a scene from the movie "Night School." The Catholic News Service classification is L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. (CNS/Eli Ade, Universal Pictures)
By Catholic News Service The purpose of this fitfully funny comedy from director Malcolm D. Lee is to allow Kevin Hart, playing a high school dropout seeking to pass the GED exam to secure a promising job, to trade barbs with Tiffany Haddish in the role of his feisty teacher. A few of their exchanges […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 26, 2018 -
Movie Review
Characters are shown in a scene from the animated movie "Smallfoot." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Warner Bros. Pictures)
By Catholic News Service Turning the legend of Bigfoot on its head, this animated musical comedy charts the quest of a young yeti (voice of Channing Tatum) to prove that so-called smallfeet — that is, humans — exist, despite the fact that the inscribed stones by which the life of his mountaintop community has traditionally […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 24, 2018 -
Movie Review
By Catholic News Service Writer-director Sam Levinson’s messy teen-age satire devolves into a heavy-handed morality tale about our online lives, dark sexual secrets, scapegoating, public shaming and mass mayhem. The film, which evokes the witch trials in 17th century Massachusetts, stops short of being exploitative, but not by much. The leader (Odessa Young) of a jaded […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 21, 2018 -
Movie Review
Olivia Wilde and Oscar Isaac star in a scene from the movie "Life Itself." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Amazon Studios)
By Catholic News Service Pretentiousness and sentimentality weigh down this drama from writer-director Dan Fogelman. It’s a collection of interlocking, intergenerational stories that begins with a couple (Oscar Isaac and Olivia Wilde) happily expecting the arrival of a daughter, then follows the baby’s life as both a child (Kya Kruse) and a grown-up (Olivia Cooke) […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 19, 2018 -
Movie Review
Cate Blanchett, Eli Roth, Jack Black, John Bellairs, occult themes, Owen Vaccaro
Cate Blanchett, Owen Vaccaro and Jack Black star in a scene from the movie "The House With a Clock in Its Walls." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Universal)
By Catholic News Service After his parents are killed in an accident, a 10-year-old boy (Owen Vaccaro) goes to live with his eccentric uncle (Jack Black), who turns out to be a warlock. Having mastered some of the rudiments of his new guardian’s craft, the lad assists him and his best friend (Cate Blanchett), a […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 14, 2018 -
Movie Review
Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively, Darcey Bell, Henry Golding, Paul Feig
Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively star in a scene from the movie "A Simple Favor. (CNS/Lionsgate)
By Catholic News Service Lurid thriller in which a mild-mannered young widow (Anna Kendrick) strikes up an unlikely friendship with the sophisticated, hard-bitten mother (Blake Lively) of one of her son’s classmates. But when her new pal mysteriously disappears and she tries to track her down, she discovers just how little she really knew about […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 14, 2018 -
Movie Review
Matthew McConaughey, Rick Wershe, Yann Demange
Richie Merritt and Matthew McConaughey star in a scene from the movie "White Boy Rick." The Catholic News Service classification is L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. (CNS/Sony)
By Catholic News Service Somber fact-based drama, set in 1980s Detroit, chronicling the unlikely adventures of Rick Wershe (Richie Merritt) who, at the age of 14, became the youngest FBI informant in history, posing as a drug dealer. He then went on to sell narcotics for real in an attempt to break out of the […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 14, 2018 -
Movie Review
" Billy Graham, "Unbroken", Laura Hillenbrand, Louie Zamperini
The Rev. Billy Graham is portrayed by his grandson Will Graham in a scene from the movie "Unbroken: Path to Redemption." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Universal)
By Catholic News Service More artful than many faith-motivated movies, this sequel and conversion story continues the biography of Olympic runner-turned-war-hero Louie Zamperini (likable Samuel Hunt). Having survived the downing of his plane over the Pacific, a long period adrift at sea and torturous captivity by the Japanese, events related in the 2014 original, helmed […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 12, 2018 -
Movie Review
This is a scene from the movie "The Predator." 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 The sixth film appearance of the eponymous creature from outer space, directed and co-written by Shane Black, features predictable mayhem and bloodshed, but also unwelcome vulgarity and tasteless humor, making this questionable viewing even for grown-ups. An army ranger (Boyd Holbrook) encounters the creature and steals its helmet and armor, which […]
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