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Movie & Television Reviews

Movie Review: ‘The Beekeeper’

January 17, 2024
By John Mulderig
OSV News
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

Cultivating bees may be regarded as a rather peaceful and meditative pursuit. But that doesn’t stop the title character of the preposterous action flick “The Beekeeper” (Amazon MGM) from going berserk when provoked.

Movie Review: ‘Saltburn’

January 17, 2024
By John Mulderig
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

In his classic 1945 novel “Brideshead Revisited,” Catholic author Evelyn Waugh charted the intense, quasi-romantic and possibly sexual bond between two male students at Oxford University. The premise of Waugh’s work is echoed in the black comedy “Saltburn.”

Movie Review: ‘Mean Girls’

January 15, 2024
By John Mulderig
OSV News
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

Tina Fey infuses her script — ultimately derived from Rosalind Wiseman’s 2002 nonfiction book “Queen Bees and Wannabes” — with some sharply observed humor.

Home viewing roundup: What’s available to stream and what’s on horizon

January 15, 2024
By 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: ‘Maestro’

January 10, 2024
By John Mulderig
OSV News
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

The tangled personal life of composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) provides the subject matter for the fact-based drama “Maestro” (Netflix).

Home viewing roundup: What’s available to stream and what’s on horizon

January 8, 2024
By 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.

Rob Schneider opens up about his Catholic conversion and the life of faith

January 6, 2024
By Katie Yoder
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, Movie & Television Reviews, News, World News

In 2023, actor and comedian Rob Schneider celebrated his first Christmas as a Catholic.

Movie Review: ‘Night Swim’

January 6, 2024
By John Mulderig
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

Long ago, when the world was young, B-52s frontman Fred Schneider warned his listeners to stay away from “a pool fraught with danger.” The virtually bloodless but uneven horror yarn “Night Swim” (Universal) – which is possibly acceptable for older teens as well as grown-ups – offers a similar caution.

‘Padre Pio’ actor Shia LaBeouf fully enters the Catholic Church New Year’s Eve

January 4, 2024
By Gina Christian
OSV News
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews, News, World News

Shia LaBeouf, a Hollywood veteran and star of director Abel Ferrara’s film “Padre Pio,” received the sacrament of confirmation, completing his initiation into the Catholic faith, during the New Year holiday weekend, according to announcements posted Jan. 2 to Facebook and Instagram by the Capuchin Franciscans’ Western American Province.

A selection of movies to watch by the fireside

January 2, 2024
By John Mulderig
OSV News
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

Nostalgic evocations of a simpler era or intimate love stories may qualify as the kind of comforting fare that will help to make a dreary January afternoon go by in a more enjoyable way.

Movie Review: ‘The Iron Claw’

December 29, 2023
By Joseph McAleer
OSV News
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

A cautionary tale unfolds in “The Iron Claw,” (A24) based on the true story of the rise and fall of an all-American wrestling family.

Movie Review: ‘Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom’

December 27, 2023
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

A menagerie of special effects aimlessly searching for a coherent plot is the most concise way to sum up “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom” (Warner Bros.), the sequel to 2018’s immensely successful “Aquaman.”

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