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John Mulderig

Movie Review: ‘The Creator’

October 2, 2023
By John Mulderig
OSV News
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

Science fiction is often used as an allegorical vessel within which to explore real-life current events, and such is the case with “The Creator” (20th Century). Although primarily set in the year 2070, this thinking person’s war drama takes for its main topic the timely subject of artificial intelligence.

Movie Review: ‘Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie’

September 29, 2023
By John Mulderig
OSV News
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

A decade after premiering on Nickelodeon and two years out from their film debut, the titular group of canine first responders, led by a preteen boy called Ryder (voice of Finn Lee-Epp), returns for another round of derring-do and some fresh life lessons.

Movie Review: ‘Expend4bles’

September 22, 2023
By John Mulderig
OSV News
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

With “Expend4bles” (Lionsgate), director Scott Waugh extends a franchise that dates back to 2010 and that has always been fueled by mindless machismo. The latest blood-soaked entry in the series maintains that lunkheaded outlook.

Movie Review: ‘A Million Miles Away’

September 20, 2023
By John Mulderig
OSV News
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

In adapting Hernández’s memoir “Reaching for the Stars,” Abella traces his remarkable journey from child migrant farm worker to NASA engineer and candidate for a place on the space shuttle.

Movie Review: ‘A Haunting in Venice’

September 15, 2023
By John Mulderig
OSV News
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

“A Haunting in Venice” (20th Century) is the third in a series of Agatha Christie adaptations, all featuring her famed sleuth Hercule Poirot, on which director and star Kenneth Branagh has collaborated with screenwriter Michael Green.

Movie Review: ‘The Equalizer 3’

August 31, 2023
By John Mulderig
OSV News
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

In their latest big-screen variation on the eponymous CBS-TV series starring Edward Woodward that ran for four seasons beginning in 1985, screenwriter Richard Wenk and director Antoine Fuqua have a few things going for them.

Movie Review: ‘The Hill’

August 30, 2023
By John Mulderig
OSV News
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

The tale of Texan Rickey Hill’s against-the-odds struggle to become a major league baseball player should, potentially, make for an engaging film.

Movie Review: ‘Strays’

August 29, 2023
By John Mulderig
OSV News
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

The latest such gambit vulgarly ventriloquizes dogs and results in the mangy comedy “Strays.”

Movie Review: ‘Gran Turismo’

August 12, 2023
By John Mulderig
OSV News
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

Director Neill Blomkamp’s lively against-the-odds tale recounts the unlikely career of working-class Welsh lad Jann Mardenborough (Archie Madekwe).

Movie Review: ‘The Last Voyage of the Demeter’

August 11, 2023
By John Mulderig
OSV News
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

The Last Voyage of the Demeter registers as competent but uneven, with its evident artistic intent barely justifying the quarts of blood spilt as its plot unfolds.

Movie Review: ‘Meg 2: The Trench’

August 4, 2023
By John Mulderig
OSV News
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

Seafood goes bad, very bad, very quickly. So, too, does the dead fish-scented sequel “Meg 2: The Trench” (Warner Bros.)

Movie Review: ‘Talk to Me’

August 2, 2023
By John Mulderig
OSV News
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

Things get dark down under in the Australian horror yarn “Talk to Me.”

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