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By: The Catholic Post - February 10, 2016 -
Movie Review
Teresa Palmer and Ben Walker star in a scene from the movie "The Choice." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS photo/Lionsgate)
By Catholic News Service This agreeably picturesque love story features likable characters who briefly consider the morality of at least some of their decisions. But it’s so intractably bland, as it strains not to offend, that its plot points lack all emotional tug. Director Ross Katz and screenwriter Bryan Sipe, adapting the 2007 novel by […]
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By: The Catholic Post - February 10, 2016 -
Movie Review
Lily James and Bella Heathcote star in a scene from the movie "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive. CNS/Screen Gems
By Catholic News Service Jane Austen’s classic 1813 tale of manners and relationships in Regency England is barely recognizable in this revisionist comedy-drama, adapted by writer-director Burr Steers from the best-selling novel by Seth Grahame-Smith. A genteel couple (Charles Dance and Sally Phillips) is anxious to marry off their five daughters, one of whom (Lily […]
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By: The Catholic Post - February 2, 2016 -
Movie Review
Casey Affleck and Michael Raymond-James star in a scene from the movie "The Finest Hours." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS photo/Disney)
By Catholic News Service The remarkable true story of the most daring small boat rescue mission in Coast Guard history comes to the big screen in this grand old-fashioned adventure, directed by Craig Gillespie and based on the 2009 novel by Michael J. Tougias and Casey Sherman. In February 1952, a powerful Nor’easter strikes the […]
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By: The Catholic Post - February 2, 2016 -
Movie Review
Po, voiced by Jack Black, and Li, voiced by Bryan Cranston, appear in the animated movie "Kung Fu Panda 3." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS photo/DreamWorks)
The unlikely martial arts master of the title (voice of Jack Black) — whose rise to his destined status as a legendary warrior was chronicled in this animated adventure’s two predecessors — faces off against an evil aggressor (voice of J.K. Simmons) armed with supernatural powers. Family values get a boost when the bear reunites […]
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By: The Catholic Post - February 2, 2016 -
Movie Review
Kali Hawk, Marlon Wayans and Mike Epps star in a scene from the movie "Fifty Shades of Black." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive. (CNS photo/Open Road Films)
This witless, aggressively foulmouthed, ultimately torturous spoof of 2015’s “Fifty Shades of Grey” swaps the original’s sadomasochism for mind-numbing amounts of dirty talk. Marlon Wayans, who co-wrote with Rick Alvarez, cavorts through unfunny sexual set pieces with Kali Hawk joining in the fetid frivolity and Michael Tiddes directing. Strong sexual content, including full nudity and […]
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By: The Catholic Post - February 2, 2016 -
Movie Review
Jacob Tremblay and Brie Larson star in a scene from the movie "Room." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS photo/courtesy A24)
Poignant study of the love between a mother (Brie Larson) and her 5-year-old son (Jacob Tremblay) both of whom are held captive in a backyard shed by a sexual predator (Sean Bridgers) who kidnapped the young woman and fathered the boy. Born and raised within this confined space, the lad is confused by tales of the […]
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By: Tom Dermody - January 22, 2016 -
Movie Review
Alex Roe and Chloe Grace Moretz star in a scene from the movie "The 5th Wave." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Columbia)
When aliens invade Earth and begin to decimate the human race, an Ohio teenager (Chloe Grace Moretz) fights to stay alive in order to reunite with her missing brother (Zackary Arthur). Two young men (Nick Robinson and Alex Roe) come to her aid and both become romantic interests. Yet it’s unclear who can be trusted […]
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By: The Catholic Post - January 22, 2016 -
Movie Review
Zac Efron and Robert De Niro star in a scene from the movie "Dirty Grandpa." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive. (CNS/Lionsgate)
By Catholic News Service Sexploitation flick featuring Robert De Niro as a libido-driven, newly widowed former Special Forces officer who has taken to Florida by his grandson (Zac Efron) for a decorous visit to Boca Raton. They wind up instead at spring break in Daytona Beach where De Niro spends most of the movie chasing […]
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By: The Catholic Post - January 22, 2016 -
Movie Review
Lauren Cohan stars in a scene from the movie "The Boy." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/STX Productions)
By Catholic News Service On the rebound from an abusive relationship with her boyfriend (Ben Robson), a young Montana woman (Lauren Cohan) takes a job as a nanny at a remote British mansion only to find that her charge is a spooky porcelain doll her elderly employers (Jim Norton and Diana Hardcastle) have substituted for […]
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By: The Catholic Post - January 18, 2016 -
Movie Review
John Krasinski stars in a scene from the movie "13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi." The Catholic News Service classification is L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. (CNS photo/Paramount)
By Catholic News Service Working from the 2014 book by Mitchell Zuckoff, director Michael Bay offers a gripping, fact-based account of what happened on the ground when the U.S. consulate in the Libyan city of the title was overrun on Sept. 11, 2012, and four American lives, most prominently that of Ambassador Chris Stevens […]
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