By: The Catholic Post - October 25, 2019 -
Movie Review
Benedict Cumberbatch, George Westinghouse, Michael Shannon, Nicholas Hoult, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison
Benedict Cumberbatch stars in a scene from the movie "The Current War: Director's Cut." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/101 Studios)
By Catholic News Service Intriguing historical drama recounting the bitter contest between inventor Thomas Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch) and industrialist George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon) as they raced to spread electricity across the United States in the last decades of the 19th century, with Serbian-American tech whiz Nikola Tesla (Nicholas Hoult) supporting first one then the other. […]
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By: The Catholic Post - May 8, 2019 -
Movie Review
J.R.R. Tolkien, Lily Collins, Nicholas Hoult
Nicholas Hoult and Lily Collins star in a scene from the movie "Tolkien." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Fox Searchlight)
By Catholic News Service Sophisticated profile of the future novelist’s youth traces his passage from impoverished schoolboy (Harry Gilby) to Oxford University scholarship student and beleaguered officer in the trenches of World War I (Nicholas Hoult). Along the way, he bonds with a trio of precociously gifted peers (Anthony Boyle, Patrick Gibson and Tom Glynn-Carney) […]
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