Home viewing roundup: What’s available to stream and what’s on horizon November 13, 2024By 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: ‘The Best Christmas Pageant Ever’ November 12, 2024By John Mulderig OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews Gentle and family-oriented, “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever” (Lionsgate) offers top-flight holiday entertainment for a wide range of age groups. In adapting author Barbara Robinson’s 1972 children’s novel, helmer Dallas Jenkins blends wry humor and touching drama while also successfully conveying some valuable insights.
Movie Review: ‘The Carpenter’ November 4, 2024By John Mulderig OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews Designed to present a portion of the Gospel narrative to fans of mixed martial arts fighting and heavy metal music, the biblical drama “The Carpenter” (Purdie) adds a whole new meaning to the term muscular Christianity.
Movie Review: ‘Venom: The Last Dance’ October 30, 2024By John Mulderig OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews A trilogy of Marvel Comics adaptations that launched in 2018 comes to a dull close with “Venom: The Last Dance” (Columbia). Hobbled by the apparent exhaustion of the franchise’s trademark wit, writer-director Kelly Marcel’s wrap-up feels less like a waltz out the door than a stagger to the finish line.
Home viewing roundup: What’s available to stream and what’s on horizon October 30, 2024By 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: ‘Lost on a Mountain in Maine’ October 28, 2024By John Mulderig OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews Donn Fendler’s story is recounted in the restrained dramatization “Lost on a Mountain in Maine” (Blue Fox). Though the lad’s experience was a harrowing one, this look back at it is ultimately a life-affirming tale about the power of perseverance.
Radio Interview: Family Theater Productions October 28, 2024By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, Movie & Television Reviews, News, Radio Interview Catholic Review Editor Christopher Gunty talks with Holy Cross Father David Guffey, national director and head of production at Family Theater Productions about the work it produces, and about a new film that will begin airing in November on PBS stations, “Playing Like a Girl: The House that Rob Built.”
Venezuelan American teen’s film on Guatemalan genocide grows out of Catholic high school program October 26, 2024By Tom Tracy OSV News Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, Movie & Television Reviews, News, World News A filmmaker and graduate of Miami Catholic schools with a new documentary film about Guatemalan-Mayan immigration to the U.S. said her project brought clarity to her own immigrant history as a Venezuelan American.
Jesuit scholar’s search for films’ ‘theology of horror’ finds the sacred in the screams October 24, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Movie & Television Reviews, News, World News Beneath the nation’s fascination with horror films — which translates into a multibillion-dollar industry — lurks a hidden quest for the divine, a theologian with expertise on the genre told OSV News.
Documentary profiles a possible future saint October 24, 2024By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews, Saints Jessica Navin, spiritual formation coordinator for the Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS), did not have a sainthood-cause documentary in mind when she began work as executive producer on what would become “Radiating Joy: The Michelle Duppong Story.”
Television Review: ‘Grotesquerie,’ streaming, Hulu October 23, 2024By John Mulderig OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews Catholic viewers will naturally be interested in a TV show that features a nun as one of its principal characters. In the case of “Grotesquerie,” however, they’ll tune in, to use an obsolete term, only to be turned off — both by a welter of gore and by a treatment of the church that degenerates from mere ignorance to outright hostility.
Home viewing roundup: What’s available to stream and what’s on horizon October 17, 2024By 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.
