Movie Review: ‘The Nun II’ September 7, 2023By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews If jump-scares were an Olympic competition, director Michael Chaves’ horror sequel “The Nun II” (Warner Bros.) would undoubtedly be festooned with gold medals.
Archdiocese of Baltimore continues sponsorship of HBCU Week on Maryland Public Television August 31, 2023By Gerry Jackson Catholic Review Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, Feature, Local News, Movie & Television Reviews, News, Racial Justice For the second straight year, the archdiocese and MPT will support programming that celebrates the history, culture and innovations of HBCUs in the area and across the nation. HBCU Week on MPT begins Sept. 4 and airs through Sept. 10.
Videogame Review: ‘Bramble: The Mountain King’ August 31, 2023By Adele Chapline Smith OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews Some fairy tales have a dark side and are thus better suited to grown-ups than to kids. The narrative that unfolds in “Bramble: The Mountain King” (Merge) is one example of this.
Movie Review: ‘The Equalizer 3’ August 31, 2023By John Mulderig OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews In their latest big-screen variation on the eponymous CBS-TV series starring Edward Woodward that ran for four seasons beginning in 1985, screenwriter Richard Wenk and director Antoine Fuqua have a few things going for them.
Movie Review: ‘The Hill’ August 30, 2023By John Mulderig OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews The tale of Texan Rickey Hill’s against-the-odds struggle to become a major league baseball player should, potentially, make for an engaging film.
Movie Review: ‘Strays’ August 29, 2023By John Mulderig OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews The latest such gambit vulgarly ventriloquizes dogs and results in the mangy comedy “Strays.”
Movie Review: ‘Blue Beetle’ August 22, 2023By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews The resilience of the indestructible loving family, in this case, a Mexican American clan, forms the heart and soul of “Blue Beetle” (Warner Bros.).
‘Oppenheimer’ gives Catholics opportunity to explain injustice of nuclear weapons August 18, 2023By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Movie & Television Reviews, News, World News The recently released cinema biopic “Oppenheimer” dramatizes the progressive development, assembly, testing and detonation of the world’s first atomic bomb which then led to the dropping of two such bombs over Japan in the twilight days of World War II.
Movie Review: ‘Gran Turismo’ August 12, 2023By John Mulderig OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews Director Neill Blomkamp’s lively against-the-odds tale recounts the unlikely career of working-class Welsh lad Jann Mardenborough (Archie Madekwe).
Movie Review: ‘The Last Voyage of the Demeter’ August 11, 2023By John Mulderig OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews The Last Voyage of the Demeter registers as competent but uneven, with its evident artistic intent barely justifying the quarts of blood spilt as its plot unfolds.
‘With This Light’: The inspiringly subversive and ‘naughty’ Sister Maria Rosa Leggol August 9, 2023By Sister Nancy Usslemann OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews “With This Light,” a documentary releasing in theaters Aug. 11 and then to streaming platforms, tells of the apostolic dynamism of Sister Maria Rosa Leggol, a Franciscan sister known as the “Mother Teresa” of Honduras.
Movie Review: ‘Meg 2: The Trench’ August 4, 2023By John Mulderig OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews Seafood goes bad, very bad, very quickly. So, too, does the dead fish-scented sequel “Meg 2: The Trench” (Warner Bros.)
