Box office hit ‘Sound of Freedom’ draws kudos, concerns from human trafficking experts August 4, 2023By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Movie & Television Reviews, News, World News A summer box office hit is garnering both kudos and concerns for its approach to the issue of child trafficking.
Movie Review: ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem’ August 3, 2023By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews In rebooting a decades-old franchise with “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem” (Paramount), director and co-writer Jeff Rowe has the titular testudines take a meditative turn.
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.”
Videogame Review: ‘Resident Evil 4’ August 2, 2023By Adele Chapline Smith OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews Good but gruesome more or less sums up “Resident Evil 4” (Capcom).
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.
Movie Review: ‘Oppenheimer’ July 22, 2023By John Mulderig OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews If writer-director Christopher Nolan’s impressive but uneven portrait “Oppenheimer” (Universal) is anything to go by, famed theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was a highly complex man.
Fundamental issues raised by twin Hollywood strikes July 19, 2023By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Movie & Television Reviews The 160,000 actors and 11,500 screenwriters involved in the action against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers are concerned about two interrelated threats to their livelihood.
Movie Review: ‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One’ July 18, 2023By John Mulderig OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews In a timely move, the folks behind the slick, vibrant espionage thriller “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” have added an experimental Artificial Intelligence project run amok to their roster of villains.
Movie Review: ‘Miracle Club’ July 16, 2023By John Mulderig OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Movie & Television Reviews A pilgrimage to Lourdes provides the framework for the tender drama “The Miracle Club” (Sony Classics).
Movie Review: ‘Joy Ride’ July 8, 2023By John Mulderig OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews Hollywood has decided that Asian American women deserve their very own raunchy road movie. And so viewers are invited along for “Joy Ride” (Lionsgate). They’d do well to skip the trip.