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‘With This Light’: The inspiringly subversive and ‘naughty’ Sister Maria Rosa Leggol
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‘With This Light’: The inspiringly subversive and ‘naughty’ Sister Maria Rosa Leggol

Sister Nancy UsslemannAugust 9, 20235 min read
“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’
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Movie Review: ‘Meg 2: The Trench’

John MulderigAugust 4, 20232 min read
Seafood goes bad, very bad, very quickly. So, too, does the dead fish-scented sequel “Meg 2: The Trench” (Warner Bros.)
Box office hit ‘Sound of Freedom’ draws kudos, concerns from human trafficking experts
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Box office hit ‘Sound of Freedom’ draws kudos, concerns from human trafficking experts

Gina ChristianAugust 4, 20235 min read
A summer box office hit is garnering both kudos and concerns for its approach to the issue of child trafficking.
Movie Review: ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem’
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Movie Review: ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem’

Kurt JensenAugust 3, 20233 min read
In rebooting a decades-old franchise with “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem” (Paramount), director and co-writer Jeff Rowe has the titular testudines take a meditative turn.
Movie Review: ‘Talk to Me’
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Movie Review: ‘Talk to Me’

John MulderigAugust 2, 20232 min read
Things get dark down under in the Australian horror yarn “Talk to Me.”
Videogame Review: ‘Resident Evil 4’
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Videogame Review: ‘Resident Evil 4’

Adele Chapline SmithAugust 2, 20233 min read
Good but gruesome more or less sums up “Resident Evil 4” (Capcom).
Movie Review: ‘Haunted Mansion’
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Movie Review: ‘Haunted Mansion’

John MulderigJuly 28, 20233 min read
Those who enter “Haunted Mansion” (Disney) in search of laughs will likely come away from it more satisfied than those who go in seeking eerie chills.
Movie Review: ‘Barbie’
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Movie Review: ‘Barbie’

John MulderigJuly 26, 20233 min read
Life in plastic may be fantastic but the tedious ideology-driven comedy “Barbie” (Warner Bros.) is not. Although genuinely objectionable elements are relatively few, moreover, this is distinctly not a movie for the age group to which the figurine of the title is primarily marketed.
A look at Labor Unions on Film
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A look at Labor Unions on Film

John MulderigJuly 23, 20237 min read
The onset of overlapping strikes by the Writers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists has put Hollywood on hiatus.
Movie Review: ‘Oppenheimer’
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Movie Review: ‘Oppenheimer’

John MulderigJuly 22, 20233 min read
If writer-director Christopher Nolan’s impressive but uneven portrait “Oppenheimer” (Universal) is anything to go by, famed theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was a highly complex man.
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