Home viewing roundup: What’s available to stream and what’s on horizon March 12, 2025By John Mulderig OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews Capsule reviews of theatrical movies available now for streaming or scheduled for broadcast on network or cable television as well as notes on TV programming for the same week.
Television Review: ‘Celtics City’ March 7, 2025By Garan Santicola Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews, Sports In 2024, the Boston Celtics won their 18th NBA championship. In the wake of that record-breaking achievement, HBO has produced “Celtics City,” a nine-hour documentary series that provides an exhaustive deep dive into the storied history of the franchise.
Home viewing roundup: What’s available to stream and what’s on horizon March 5, 2025By John Mulderig OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews Capsule reviews of theatrical movies available now for streaming or scheduled for broadcast on network or cable television as well as notes on TV programming for the same week.
Television Review: ‘House of David’ March 3, 2025By John Mulderig OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews Theology blends with politics, family tensions and derring-do in the generally well-crafted biblical drama “House of David.” Three hour-long episodes of the eight-part series, created by Jon Erwin, are currently streaming on Amazon Prime.
A Catholic look at this year’s Oscar Best Picture nominees February 28, 2025By Sister Hosea Rupprecht OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Feature, Movie & Television Reviews Here’s how the eight out of 10 films I was able to see hold up in the human dignity department.
Movie Review: ‘Last Breath’ February 28, 2025By John Mulderig OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews In 2012, Scottish professional diver Chris Lemons was temporarily stranded at the bottom of the North Sea with a rapidly dwindling supply of oxygen. Both before and after Lemons lost consciousness, two of his colleagues raced to save his life.
Biblical tales old and new abound during Lent February 27, 2025By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews Vintage biblical epics sprout like daffodils during Lent, which begins with Ash Wednesday on March 5.
Home viewing roundup: What’s available to stream and what’s on horizon February 26, 2025By John Mulderig OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews Capsule reviews of theatrical movies available now for streaming or scheduled for broadcast on network or cable television as well as notes on TV programming for the same week.
Movie Review: ‘The Monkey’ February 21, 2025By John Mulderig OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews “The Monkey” (Neon), writer-director Osgood Perkins’ serio-comic adaptation of a 1980 short story by horror maven Stephen King, begins with the graphic disemboweling of a minor character and climaxes with the equally explicit decapitation of a major one by a flying bowling ball. ‘Nuff said?
Movie Review: ‘I’m Still Here’ February 19, 2025By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews “I’m Still Here” (Sony Pictures Classics) is an adaptation of Marcelo Paiva’s 2015 memoir recounting how his family survived the worst years of Brazil’s military junta in the 1970s.
Home viewing roundup: What’s available to stream and what’s on horizon February 19, 2025By John Mulderig OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews Capsule reviews of theatrical movies available now for streaming or scheduled for broadcast on network or cable television as well as notes on TV programming for the same week.
Radio Interview: The Oscars and Hollywood February 17, 2025By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, Movie & Television Reviews, News, Radio Interview Catholic Review Editor Christopher Gunty, along with guest co-host Ann Augherton of the Arlington Catholic Herald, had a wide-ranging, sometimes wild, conversation with two Catholic movie experts: Pauline Sister Rose Pacatte and John Mulderig, film reviewer for OSV News. Hear their recommendations for the winners, and what they wished the entertainment industry would focus on this year.
