FEATURED MOVIE REVIEW: The Kid Who Would Be King

February 1, 2019  |  By JOSEPH McALEER, CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
NEW YORK. The Arthurian legend gets an inventive updating in “The Kid Who Would Be King” (PG, Fox), a thrilling adventure that casts schoolchildren as latter-day Knights of the Round Table, destined to save the world.
 

FEATURED MOVIE REVIEW: Mary Poppins Returns

January 18, 2019  |  By JOHN MULDERIG
NEW YORK. It has taken more than half a century, but at long last “Mary Poppins Returns” (PG, Disney). The result is a delightful sequel to the 1964 classic that will divert all but the youngest and most skittish members of the family.
 

FEATURED MOVIE REVIEW: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

December 7, 2018  |  By JOHN MULDERIG, CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
NEW YORK. For a film about magic, 2016’s “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” was strangely lacking in enchantment. So it’s welcome news that the follow-up, “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald” (PG-13, Warner Bros.) is sharper and more engaging, though defects remain.The sequel is suitable for a wide audience since the mayhem is free of gore and the basic values congruent with scriptural ones. At least for those paying careful attention, however, a single line of dialogue may raise parental concerns.
 

FEATURED MOVIE REVIEW: The Nutcracker and the Four Realms

November 16, 2018  |  By JOHN MULDERIG, CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
NEW YORK. German author E.T.A. Hoffmann’s tale “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” has proven a remarkably rich bit of source material since its initial publication in 1816.
 

FEATURED MOVIE REVIEW: Indivisible

November 2, 2018  |  By JOHN MULDERIG
NEW YORK. “It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.” So Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee is supposed to have remarked while witnessing the magnificent panoply of massing troops at the onset of the Battle of Fredericksburg in December 1862.
The earnest, fact-based drama “Indivisible” (PG-13, Pure Flix) concentrates on the negative side of Lee’s observation, showing the toll a much more recent conflict exacted on the life of Protestant Army chaplain Darren Turner (Justin Bruening).
 

FEATURED MOVIE REVIEW: Gosnell: The Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer

October 19, 2018  |  By JOHN MULDERIG, CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
NEW YORK. “Gosnell: The Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer” (GVN) is a powerful dramatization of the Philadelphia police investigation and state prosecution that finally ended the infamous, decades-long career of abortionist Kermit Gosnell.
 

FEATURED MOVIE REVIEW: Smallfoot

October 5, 2018  |  By SISTER HOSEA RUPPRECHT

NEW YORK. Turning the legend of Bigfoot on its head with plenty of laughs along the way comes the animated musical comedy “Smallfoot” (PG, Warner Bros.).

While definitely entertaining on the surface, the film — co-written by Karey Kirkpatrick and Clare Sera, and directed by Kirkpatrick (“Over the Hedge”) — involves underlying themes that Catholic parents will want to address with their kids.

 

50 Years: A Look Back – Art at the Marian House Complex

October 5, 2018  |  By ROCHELLE SCHLORTT
COLORADO SPRINGS. You may not have known this, but the Marian House Complex is more than a soup kitchen:  it is also a showcase for numerous forms of art.  Over the years, various artists, individuals and groups have donated art to be displayed throughout the facility. For those we serve, art galleries and museums are usually not experiences that are readily available or in the budget, so this brings the beauty and experience of art to everyone.
 

FEATURED MOVIE REVIEW: BlacKkKlansman

September 7, 2018  |  By JOHN MULDERIG
NEW YORK. A few flaws notwithstanding, “BlacKkKlansman” (R, Focus) represents an effective — and, strange as it may sound, often entertaining — look at the vicious racism lurking at the fringes of American life and perpetually aspiring to enter its mainstream.
 

FEATURED MOVIE REVIEW: Christopher Robin

August 17, 2018  |  By JOHN MULDERIG, CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
NEW YORK. It’s always dangerous to tamper with perfection. And, if there were ever a perfect world, it must be that of the Winnie the Pooh literature created by author A.A. Milne and illustrator E.H. Shepard in the 1920s.
 

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