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By: The Catholic Post - September 14, 2016 -
Movie Review
Animated characters Kiki, Scrubby and Carmello appear in the movie "The Wild Life." The Catholic News Service classification is A-I -- general patronage. (CNS/Lionsgate)
By Catholic News Service Daniel Defoe’s 1719 adventure novel “Robinson Crusoe” morphs into a 3-D animated comedy for kids, co-directed by Vincent Kesteloot and Ben Stassen. A sailor (voice of Matthias Schweighofer) is shipwrecked and washes ashore a deserted island. There he encounters a wide array of exotic (and exceedingly loquacious) birds, reptiles and mammals, […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 9, 2016 -
Movie Review
Arron Eckhart and Tom Hanks star in a scene from the movie "Sully." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Warner Bros.)
By Catholic News Service Satisfying profile of US Airways pilot Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger (Tom Hanks), whose 2009 feat in landing his crippled plane on the Hudson River and saving the lives of all on board gained him instant fame. Though immediately embraced as a hero by the public, behind the scenes he was second-guessed by […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 9, 2016 -
Movie Review
Morris Chesnut and Regina Hall star in a scene from the movie "When the Bough Breaks." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive. (CNS/Sony)
By Catholic News Service A lurid thriller about the desperate measures prospective parents take to start a family is, in the end, a cautionary tale about misplaced morality, directed by Jon Cassar. An attractive professional couple (Regina Hall, Morris Chestnut), following multiple miscarriages and failed in vitro fertilization, want a baby. They go shopping for […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 7, 2016 -
Movie Review
Anya Taylor-Joy and Kate Mara star in a scene from the movie "Morgan." The Catholic News Service classification is L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. (CNS/Twentieth Century Fox)
By Catholic News Service Unoriginal sci-fi thriller omits even an occasional reflection on what it means to have a human moral sense. Instead, director Luke Scott and screenwriter Seth Owen put Morgan (Anya Taylor-Joy), a creature made of synthetic DNA, through the paces of shlock 1980s horror as she wreaks murderous havoc on her creators. […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 3, 2016 -
Movie Review
Jeff Bridges and Gil Birmingham star in a scene from the movie "Hell or High Water." The Catholic News Service classification is L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. (CNS/CBS Films Publicity)
By Catholic News Service Morally intricate tale of two brothers, one (Ben Foster) a cynical ex-con, the other (Chris Pine) a divorced dad with no criminal past, who go on a bank-robbing spree to save their family farm. When a duo of Texas Rangers (Jeff Bridges and Gil Birmingham) takes up the investigation, the cat-and-mouse […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 3, 2016 -
Movie Review
Dylan Minnette and Stephen Lang star in a scene from the movie "Don't Breathe." 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 Three petty criminals (Jane Levy, Dylan Minnette and Daniel Zovatto) get more than they bargained for when they break into the isolated home of a blind, reclusive veteran (Stephen Lang) hoping to steal the large settlement he was awarded after his daughter was killed by a reckless driver. Director and co-writer […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 3, 2016 -
Movie Review
By Catholic News Service Jason Statham returns as the hitman protagonist of this action franchise, the current version of which kicked off with the 2011 remake of a 1972 movie starring Charles Bronson. Though retired since the end of the last installment, the assassin is forced to take up his craft again after a mysterious […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 3, 2016 -
Movie Review
Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander star in a scene from the movie "The Light Between Oceans." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Disney)
By Catholic News Service M.L. Stedman’s 2012 novel about love and loss in 1920s Australia is adapted for the big screen by writer-director Derek Cianfrance, who marshals lush cinematography and first-rate acting. A lighthouse keeper (Michael Fassbender) and his spirited wife (Alicia Vikander) are happily married but unable to start a family, enduring two miscarriages. […]
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By: The Catholic Post - August 19, 2016 -
Movie Review
This is a scene from the movie "The Innocents." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Music Box Films)
By Catholic News Service Luminescent, unflinchingly honest and respectful of religion, director Anne Fontaine’s drama about a fictional Benedictine convent in post- World War II Poland gently explores the conflicts between duty to the living and the shattered faith that can result from acts of depravity. The screenplay by Sabrina B. Karine and Alice Vial […]
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By: The Catholic Post - August 19, 2016 -
Movie Review
Miles Teller and Jonah Hill star in scene from the movie "War Dogs." 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 Two young men from Miami become arms merchants in a fact-based movie that hovers between raucous comedy and serious expose. Through an initiative designed to let small businesses get a slice of the military-spending pie, a college dropout (Miles Teller) with a wife and daughter to support and his long-lost pal from […]
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