Movie Review: ‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps’ July 31, 2025By John Mulderig OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Movie & Television Reviews Set in an alternate version of the mid-1960s, director Matt Shakman’s Marvel Comics adaptation “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” (Disney) can fairly be called the TWA Hotel of superhero movies.
Home viewing roundup: What’s available to stream and what’s on horizon July 30, 2025By 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: ‘Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight’ July 30, 2025By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews “Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight” is writer-director Embeth Davidtz’s adaptation of Alexandra Fuller’s 2001 memoir of her childhood in Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia). The respectful and evocative drama recounts its protagonist’s slowly dawning recognition of racial inequality in her homeland.
Catholic ‘American Ninja Warrior’ fights world hunger, one obstacle at a time July 25, 2025By Catherine Odell OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews, News, Social Justice, World News A 19-year-old student athlete at the University of Notre Dame just competed on the televised July 14 semifinals of “American Ninja Warrior” in Las Vegas. He really isn’t doing it for the glory or the chance to “go pro” as a full time ninja warrior.
Movie Review: ‘Smurfs’ July 24, 2025By John Mulderig OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews With “Smurfs,” a blend of animation and live action, director Chris Miller has given the titular blue elves, Belgian cartoonist Peyo’s trademark creatures, a big-screen reboot. Although his would-be fresh start promotes positive values and is mostly free of problematic material, it’s also numbingly uninteresting.
Home viewing roundup: What’s available to stream and what’s on horizon July 23, 2025By 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: ‘Eddington’ July 21, 2025By John Mulderig OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews Adult viewers willing to grapple with harsh material will find that the well-crafted but bleak dark comedy “Eddington” (A24) inspires some uneasy laughs. Those in search of light entertainment, by contrast, should definitely look elsewhere.
NBC’s Tom Llamas says Catholic education deepened his faith, pushed him to always do his best July 18, 2025By Tom Tracy OSV News Filed Under: Journalism, Movie & Television Reviews, News, World News Tom Llamas became the first Latino anchor of an American weekday nightly news broadcast this year when last March he was officially named both “NBC Nightly News” anchor and managing editor, as well as anchor of “Top Story” on “NBC News NOW.”
Videogame Review: ‘Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’ July 17, 2025By Adele Chapline Smith OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Movie & Television Reviews “Clair Obscur: Expedition 33” (Kepler), the debut title from French studio Sandfall Interactive, follows a cohort of citizens desperate to save a large number of people from imminent death. As it does so, the role-playing game also explores themes of grief, family and community.
Movie Review: ‘Superman’ July 11, 2025By John Mulderig OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews In the spring of 1938, when the figure of Superman made his first appearance in the pages of DC’s “Action Comics #1,” President Franklin Roosevelt’s efforts to combat the Great Depression via the New Deal were at their height. There had as yet been only one world war and Lou Gehrig was still playing for the New York Yankees.
Movie Review: ‘Sorry, Baby’ July 10, 2025By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews It’s too simplistic to refer to “Sorry, Baby” (A24) as a #MeToo movie. Yet the film is topical as well as important and compelling.
Movie Review: ‘Jurassic World Rebirth’ July 3, 2025By John Mulderig OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Movie & Television Reviews Some 35 years ago, author Michael Crichton pondered the disastrous implications of using DNA to revive various species of dinosaurs. Suffice it to say that the consequences of this ill-advised fictional project, as chronicled on screen across the decades, have borne little resemblance to an episode of “The Flintstones.”
