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Movie & Television Reviews

Knights of Columbus inspire devotion to St. Joseph with new film

December 22, 2021
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Knights of Columbus, Local News, Movie & Television Reviews, News, Year of St. Joseph

If St. Joseph had played football, Matt Birk is convinced he would have been an offensive lineman. Birk, himself a former center for the Baltimore Ravens, said the saint is all about protecting Mary and Jesus.

Movie Review: ‘The Matrix Resurrections’

December 21, 2021
By John Mulderig
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

You wouldn’t care to spend the rest of your life floating unconscious in a pod full of goo, would you? Well, neither would Keanu Reeves, and so we get “The Matrix Resurrections” (Warner Bros.), the fourth film in the blockbuster sci-fi series that first hit screens way back in 1999.

RADIO INTERVIEW: Why We Need Christmas Movies

December 20, 2021
By Catholic Review Staff
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Christmas, Feature, Local News, Movie & Television Reviews, News, Radio Interview

John Mulderig, assistant director for media reviews and visual media for Catholic News Service, gives us his insights and recommendations for best Christmas movies that help inspire us to faith and virtue. He shares the lessons we learn from them that can be shared with our families.

Movie Review: ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’

December 16, 2021
By John Mulderig
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Movie & Television Reviews

Action, humor and drama are skillfully combined in “Spider-Man: No Way Home” (Columbia), the lavish final installment of a trilogy of films starring Tom Holland as the Marvel Comics superhero.

Movie Review: ‘Being the Ricardos’

December 9, 2021
By Kurt Jensen
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

The set of “I Love Lucy” was a toxic workplace. At least, that’s how it’s portrayed in writer-director Aaron Sorkin’s biographical drama “Being the Ricardos” (Amazon).

Movie Review: ‘Nightmare Alley’

December 7, 2021
By John Mulderig
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

The title “Nightmare Alley” (Searchlight) at least gives moviegoers fair warning of what awaits them in director and co-writer Guillermo del Toro’s noir-inspired screen version of William Lindsay Gresham’s 1946 novel, scripted with Kim Morgan.

Movie Review: ‘West Side Story’

December 3, 2021
By John Mulderig
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Movie & Television Reviews

What do you get when you combine composer Leonard Bernstein, lyricist Stephen Sondheim, playwright Arthur Laurents and choreographer Jerome Robbins, then throw director Steven Spielberg and screenwriter Tony Kushner into the mix?

Movie Review: ‘Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City’

November 30, 2021
By John Mulderig
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

In 2002, director Paul W. S. Anderson presided over the first big-screen adaptation of the zombie-themed videogame series “Resident Evil.”

Movie Review: ‘Encanto’

November 30, 2021
By John Mulderig
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

Will viewers be charmed by “Encanto” (Disney)? For the most part, the answer is probably yes, though this vivacious animated musical does include content that could be of concern for the parents of impressionable kids.

Movie Review: ‘Belfast’

November 17, 2021
By John Mulderig
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

In 1969, as the wider world focused on such events as Apollo 11’s mission to the Moon, long-simmering sectarian tensions in Northern Ireland boiled over, initiating a period of religious and political strife, known as the Troubles, that would last for the next 30 years.

Movie Review: ‘Clifford the Big Red Dog’

November 17, 2021
By John Mulderig
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Movie & Television Reviews

This adaptation of a series of children’s books by Norman Bridwell, the first of which was published in 1963, is silly but mostly harmless.

Movie Review: ‘Last Night in Soho’

November 10, 2021
By John Mulderig
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Movie & Television Reviews

It may have been author Peter De Vries rather than baseball great Yogi Berra who first observed that “nostalgia ain’t what it used to be.”

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