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By: The Catholic Post - October 21, 2017 -
Movie Review
Gerald Butler stars in a scene from the movie "Geostorm." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Ben Rothstein, Warner Bros. Pictures)
By Catholic News Service After a network of weather-controlling satellites designed to overcome the effects of global warming is sabotaged and begins causing a series of overwhelming natural disasters, its designer (Gerard Butler), his estranged brother (Jim Sturgess), a State Dept. official, and the bureaucrat’s live-in girlfriend (Abbie Cornish), a Secret Service agent, team to […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 21, 2017 -
Movie Review
Cassi Davis and Tyler Perry star in a scene from the movie "Boo 2! A Madea Halloween." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Chip Bergmann, Lionsgate)
By Catholic News Service In this follow-up to the 2016 original, writer-director Tyler Perry’s long-running muumuu-draped moral force — played by Perry himself in drag, of course — sets out to rescue her grand-niece (Diamond White) from a fraternity party held at a campground where several people had been murdered some years before. The result […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 21, 2017 -
Movie Review
A poster for the movie "Same Kind of Different as Me" is displayed in this promotional photo for the film. The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Paramount)
By Catholic News Service Uneven recounting of the real-life events through which a wealthy art dealer (Greg Kinnear) formed a seemingly unlikely friendship with a volatile but fundamentally decent homeless man (Djimon Hounsou). Anxious to repair the damage a recent affair has done to his marriage, the salesman reluctantly agrees to accompany his spiritually attuned […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 19, 2017 -
Movie Review
Michael Fassbender stars in a scene from the movie "The Snowman." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive. (CNS/Universal)
By Catholic News Service Director Tomas Alfredson’s adaptation of Jo Nesbo’s best-selling crime novel occasionally dabbles in penny-dreadful sensationalism, then returns to plodding wearily across the frozen landscape of its unconvincing mystery story. Set primarily in Oslo, Norway, the film tracks the efforts of a gifted but alcoholism-plagued police detective (Michael Fassbender) to catch a […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 19, 2017 -
Movie Review
Josh Brolin stars in a scene from the movie "Only the Brave." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Columbia)
By Catholic News Service Heartbreaking true story of the “Granite Mountain Hotshots,” the elite Arizona firefighting team which raced into a raging inferno in 2013 to save a neighboring town from destruction. Their leader (Josh Brolin) has honed his 20-member crew into a well-oiled machine with the assistance of his right-hand man (James Badge Dale). During […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 15, 2017 -
Movie Review
Jackie Chan and Pierce Brosnan star in a scene from the movie "The Foreigner." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/STXfilms)
By Catholic News Service Jackie Chan takes a sharp turn from his typically genial screen personality to become the vengeful father of a London terrorist victim in this efficiently suspenseful adaptation of Stephen Leather’s pulp thriller “The Chinaman.” Director Martin Campbell and screenwriter David Marconi have produced an unembroidered drama about Irish Republican Army violence and […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 15, 2017 -
Movie Review
Bella Heathcote stars in a scene from the movie "Professor Marston and the Wonder Women." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive. (CNS/Annapurna Pictures)
By Catholic News Service Fans of the superheroine Wonder Woman are advised to steer well clear of this sordid story about the comic’s creator, William Moulton Marston (1893-1947). A behavioral psychologist who believed in so-called free love, sadomasochism, and open marriage, Marston (Luke Evans) engages his wife (Rebecca Hall) and a comely student (Bella Heathcote) […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 13, 2017 -
Movie Review
Jessica Rothe and Israel Broussard star in a scene from the movie "Happy Death Day." The Catholic News Service classification is L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. (CNS/Universal)
By Catholic News Service A play on 1993’s time-loop fantasy “Groundhog Day,” this slasher movie, directed by Christopher Landon, is an unlikely mix of horror and humor with a message about self-improvement. A college student (Jessica Rothe) awakens on the morning of her birthday in the dorm room of a fellow student (Israel Broussard). At […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 6, 2017 -
Movie Review
Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford star in a scene from the movie “Blade Runner 2049.” The Catholic News Service classification is L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. (CNS/Warner Bros.)
By Catholic News Service Misogyny hangs over this science-fiction epic, a continuation of the story begun with Ridley Scott’s 1982 film, as blithely as the thick yellow fog of the post-apocalyptic Los Angeles it portrays. A police officer (Ryan Gosling) has the job of rounding up stray rebellious replicants while also exploring the meaning of […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 6, 2017 -
Movie Review
Animated characters appear in the movie "My Little Pony: The Movie.” The Catholic News Service classification is A-I, general patronage. (CNS/Lionsgate)
By Catholic News Service The popular candy-colored Hasbro toy line gallops on to the big screen in this animated musical, directed by Jayson Thiessen. Twilight Sparkle (voice of Tara Strong) is one of the princesses who rule the mythical land of Equestria, where ponies and unicorns live in harmony. She joins forces with her best […]
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