MOVIE REVIEW: Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore April 20, 2022By John Mulderig Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Movie & Television Reviews The Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry has proved to be a mine of prodigious riches for its creator, J.K. Rowling.
MOVIE REVIEW: Father Stu April 12, 2022By John Mulderig Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Movie & Television Reviews Positive priest characters are certainly a rarity in contemporary films. So Catholics will welcome the uplifting fact-based biography “Father Stu”.
Wahlberg: Real-life Father Stu has him ‘continuing to carry on his message’ April 4, 2022By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Movie & Television Reviews Catholic actor Mark Wahlberg, who plays the title role in the upcoming movie “Father Stu,” said the real-life Montana priest is “having me continuing to carry on his message.”
TV REVIEW: ‘Servant of the People’ March 29, 2022By John Mulderig Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Movie & Television Reviews Before he started teaching the world how to stand up to a murderous bully, Volodymyr Zelenskyy was an actor and comedian.
MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Rescued By Ruby’ March 24, 2022By Chris Byrd Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Movie & Television Reviews An ambitious lawman and a dog in danger become partners in the winsome fact-based drama “Rescued by Ruby.”
MOVIE REVIEW: ‘The Adam Project’ March 16, 2022By John Mulderig Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Movie & Television Reviews There are, in fact, two Adams in this time-travel themed tale. Adult Adam (Ryan Reynolds) hails from the year 2050. Arriving in the present, he teams with his 12-year-old self (Walker Scobell) to nip a future problem for humanity in the bud.
TV REVIEW: ‘Lucy and Desi’ March 9, 2022By John Mulderig Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Movie & Television Reviews In the wake of writer-director Aaron Sorkin’s dramatization “Being the Ricardos,” comes a far different portrait of early television’s most iconic real-life couple, the warm and insightful documentary “Lucy and Desi.”
Movie review: ‘The Batman’ March 7, 2022By John Mulderig Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Movie & Television Reviews Viewers will find themselves thoroughly absorbed by “The Batman” (Warner Bros.). Director and co-writer Matt Reeves’ reboot of the DC Comics-based franchise is a darkly powerful affair, and its script — penned with Peter Craig — plays with the interesting question whether the iconic crimefighter of the title is, in fact, a hero.
Movie Review: ‘Dog’ March 2, 2022By John Mulderig Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Movie & Television Reviews Channing Tatum and Reid Carolin have co-directed a fictional riff on dogs in war, and the result is the quirky, good-natured — but not family-friendly — road movie “Dog” (MGM).
Movie Review: ‘Uncharted’ February 23, 2022By John Mulderig Catholic News Service Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews A thin stringing together of stunts, “Uncharted” (Columbia) is a tiresome treasure hunt tale, adapted from a series of video games by director Ruben Fleischer.
Movie Review: ‘Marry Me’ February 16, 2022By John Mulderig Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Movie & Television Reviews For most of its running time, the romantic comedy “Marry Me” (Universal) registers as an amiable, if unlikely, fantasy whose script, penned by John Rogers and Tami Sagher, shows some inclination toward traditional values.
Movie Review: ‘Moonfall’ February 4, 2022By John Mulderig Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Movie & Television Reviews One way to grab moviegoers’ attention is to threaten those on screen with doomsday. It’s a tactic director Roland Emmerich has resorted to repeatedly and to which he returns with “Moonfall,” a sullen science-fiction fantasy.