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Movie & Television Reviews

Movie Review: ‘How to Train Your Dragon’

June 11, 2025
By John Mulderig
OSV News
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

A decade and a half after its popular animated namesake was released comes the live-action remake “How to Train Your Dragon.” While the basic story and some of the personnel remain the same, the new arrival, although appropriate for a wide audience, falls short of the heights to which its predecessor soared.

Movie Review: ‘The Ritual’

June 9, 2025
By John Mulderig
OSV News
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

In a commendable effort to avoid sensationalism in his dramatization of allegedly real events, set in the Midwest in 1928, director and co-writer David Midell downplays the chills and icky special effects to concentrate on more cerebral matters.

Inspired by millennial soon-to-be-saint, Irish teens created animated Lego-Carlo Acutis film

June 8, 2025
By Sarah Mac Donald
OSV News
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews, News, Saints, World News

In rural Limerick, three teenage brothers are turning Lego into a tool for evangelization as Blessed Carlo Acutis continues to inspire a new generation of digital evangelists.

‘The Ritual’ seeks to portray exorcism respectfully

June 5, 2025
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews, News, World News

One thing seems certain about the exorcism-themed movie “The Ritual” (XYZ); it is not intended as the first installment in a franchise.

Movie Review: ‘Final Destination Bloodlines’

May 28, 2025
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

The Grim Reaper will have his revenge on those who try to cheat him of his haul. Such is the dubious message of the franchise whose sixth installment, “Final Destination Bloodlines” (Warner Bros.), maintains the series’ high splatter factor while throwing in some “moral” posturing that only makes the film more repellant.

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

May 28, 2025
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: ‘Lilo & Stitch’

May 22, 2025
By John Mulderig
OSV News
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

“Lilo & Stitch” (Disney) is the latest yield of a long-term project on the part of the Mouse House to remake some of their more popular animated features of the past into live-action films. The result in this instance is a morally sound but shrill updating of a well-received — and, in some quarters, cherished — 2002 release.

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

May 21, 2025
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: ‘Sinners’

May 21, 2025
By John Mulderig
OSV News
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

Considered strictly as a piece of cinema, the genre-mashing feature “Sinners” (Warner Bros.) can be acknowledged to be a successful production in several respects. But assessed ethically from the standpoint of a Scripture-based worldview, writer-director Ryan Coogler’s film is critically deficient.

Movie Review: ‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’

May 19, 2025
By John Mulderig
OSV News
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

Tom Cruise takes his eighth turn as infinitely resourceful spy Ethan Hunt in the grand-scale adventure “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” (Paramount).

A new documentary, ‘The Inner Sea,’ tells a story of adoption, music and love

May 16, 2025
By Zoey Maraist
OSV News
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

More than 20 years ago, Kate Stapleton stood on the shores of Lake Michigan and made the heart-wrenching decision to place her daughter for adoption. What happened afterward is captured in the new documentary “The Inner Sea” — a film Kate believes may be the first directed by and created from the perspective of a birth mother.

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

May 14, 2025
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.

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