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By: The Catholic Post - March 23, 2018 -
Movie Review
Bella Thorne and Patrick Schwarzenegger star in a scene from the movie "Midnight Sun." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS photo/Open Road Films)
By Catholic News Service This remake of the 2006 Japanese film “Song to the Sun” is a sweet, heartfelt movie, directed by Scott Speer, that presents a refreshing view (for Hollywood, that is) of young people who are not behaving badly. A teenager (Bella Thorne) suffers from an incurable disease due to which any exposure […]
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By: The Catholic Post - March 22, 2018 -
Movie Review
John Boyega and Scott Eastwood star in a scene from the movie "Pacific Rim Uprising." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Universal)
By Catholic News Service Directed and co-written by Steven S. DeKnight, this sequel to 2013’s “Pacific Rim” is a noisy, violent, and utterly ridiculous sci-fi adventure. When a new threat appears from aliens intent on world domination, two hot-shot pilots (John Boyega and Scott Eastwood) must train a group of very green cadets, including a […]
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By: The Catholic Post - March 22, 2018 -
Movie Review
Claire Foy and Jay Pharoah star in a scene from the movie "Unsane." The Catholic News Service classification is L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. (CNS/Bleecker Street)
By Catholic News Service Suspense drama that demonstrates why the “trapped in a mental asylum” subgenre has become a rarity. A stalking victim (Claire Foy) left with mental health issues by her experience is involuntarily committed by a predatory facility that leeches payments from its captive patients’ insurance companies. Things take an even darker turn […]
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By: The Catholic Post - March 16, 2018 -
Movie Review
Daniel Bruhl and Rosamund Pike star in a scene from the movie "7 Days in Entebbe." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Focus Features)
By Catholic News Service All the tension of a daring military raid has somehow been drained from this historical drama based on the 1976 hostage rescue in Uganda by Israeli commandos. With a better script and bigger budget, director Jose Padhila and screenwriter Gregory Burke could have made an effective thriller. But neither is in […]
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By: The Catholic Post - March 16, 2018 -
Movie Review
Jorge Lendeborg, Nick Robinson, Alexandra Shipp and Katherine Langford star in scene from the movie "Love, Simon." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive. (CNS/Twentieth Century Fox)
By Catholic News Service Good-hearted but morally misguided romantic comedy in which a closeted gay teen (Nick Robinson) strikes up a pseudonymous email exchange with a fellow student from his high school who is in the same situation, and gradually falls for his unidentified correspondent. When a callous classmate (Logan Miller) discovers his secret, and […]
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By: The Catholic Post - March 15, 2018 -
Movie Review
Amy Grant, Bart Millard, Dennis Quaid, Michael W. Smith, Trace Adkins
Bart Millard and Amy Grant star in a scene from the movie "I Can Only Imagine." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions)
By Catholic News Service Dennis Quaid brings his formidable talent to bear in this faith-driven drama, playing an abusive father whose conversion to evangelical Christianity inspired his son (John Michael Finley) to write the eponymous 2001 song, an unprecedented chart-topper that became popular even with nonbelievers. Essentially a biography of Finley’s real-life counterpart, Bart Millard, […]
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By: The Catholic Post - March 15, 2018 -
Movie Review
Alicia Vikander stars in a scene from the movie "Tomb Raider." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Warner Bros.)
By Catholic News Service Murky video-game adaptation in which, seven years after the disappearance of her business tycoon-turned-archeologist father (Dominic West), an heiress (Alicia Vikander), who prefers life as a London bicycle courier to enjoying her riches, follows clues he left behind to track him to an almost uncharted island off the coast of Japan […]
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By: The Catholic Post - March 12, 2018 -
Movie Review
This is a still image from the video animated film "Batman: Gotham by Gaslight." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Warner Home Video)
By Catholic News Service An adequate, if not outstanding, superhero tale, this direct-to-video animated film transports Batman (voice of Bruce Greenwood) and his supporting characters to a Victorian-era version of their home town. There, the Caped Crusader takes on Jack the Ripper, who is murdering prostitutes, just as his real-life counterpart did in London. Offended […]
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By: The Catholic Post - March 10, 2018 -
Movie Review
By Catholic News Service Serviceable mash-up of the apocalyptic weather event and crime caper genres in which two estranged brothers, one a meteorologist (Toby Kebbell), the other a mechanic (Ryan Kwanten), join forces with an ATF agent (Maggie Grace) to foil the crime of the title, an inside job (led by Ralph Ineson) designed to […]
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By: The Catholic Post - March 9, 2018 -
Movie Review
David Oyelowo stars in a scene from the movie "Gringo." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Amazon Studios)
By Catholic News Service Moral dilemmas come fast and furious in this dark, but somehow not cynical, comedy about avarice and its near-instant consequences. Sent to Mexico by his corrupt bosses (Joel Edgerton and Charlize Theron) to seal a crooked deal for his pharmaceutical company, a gullible executive (David Oyelowo), driven by financial desperation, instead […]
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