Movie Review: ‘A Million Miles Away’ September 20, 2023By 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, 2023By 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, 2023By 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, 2023By 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, 2023By 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, 2023By 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, 2023By 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, 2023By 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, 2023By John Mulderig OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews Things get dark down under in the Australian horror yarn “Talk to Me.”
Movie Review: ‘Haunted Mansion’ July 28, 2023By John Mulderig OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews Those who enter “Haunted Mansion” (Disney) in search of laughs will likely come away from it more satisfied than those who go in seeking eerie chills.
Movie Review: ‘Barbie’ July 26, 2023By John Mulderig OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews Life in plastic may be fantastic but the tedious ideology-driven comedy “Barbie” (Warner Bros.) is not. Although genuinely objectionable elements are relatively few, moreover, this is distinctly not a movie for the age group to which the figurine of the title is primarily marketed.
A look at Labor Unions on Film July 23, 2023By John Mulderig OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews The onset of overlapping strikes by the Writers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists has put Hollywood on hiatus.