What Happens in Vegas
Catholic News Service
5/8/2008, by Harry Forbes
NEW YORK (CNS) -- In case you were wondering about that title, "What Happens in Vegas" (Fox), what transpires in a nutshell is this: The protagonists marry each other while thoroughly intoxicated, and later win a ton of dough. The not-so-happy-the-next-morning couple are commodities trader Joy ...
Speed Racer
Catholic News Service
5/7/2008, by Harry Forbes
NEW YORK (CNS) -- The races are indeed speedy, but otherwise "Speed Racer" (Warner Bros.) is an overly long and only so-so live-action futuristic adventure yarn based on the 1960s Japanese animated TV series by Tatsuo Yoshida. The titular young race-car driver (Emile Hirsch) who, with the loving ...
Son of Rambow
Catholic News Service
5/5/2008, by John Mulderig
NEW YORK (CNS) -- "Son of Rambow" (Paramount Vantage) is a rollicking but also touching chronicle of boyhood friendship set in 1980s Britain. Reserved, introspective Will (Bill Milner) and rambunctious Lee (Will Poulter) seem an unlikely pair. But one day at school Will, the son of a puritanically ...
Made of Honor
Catholic Online
4/30/2008, by Harry Forbes
NEW YORK (CNS) -- In "Made of Honor" (Columbia), callous playboy Tom (Patrick Dempsey) comes to realize he loves his longtime best friend, Hannah (Michelle Monaghan). The two had met in college when Tom accidentally climbed into her bed by mistake, getting their warm but platonic relationship off ...
Iron Man
Catholic News Service
4/30/2008, by John Mulderig
NEW YORK (CNS) -- "Iron Man" (Paramount/Marvel) is a sleekly effective science-fiction tale set against a backdrop of contemporary events and driven by its main character's moral development. By the second half of the film, that character, billionaire weapons manufacturer Tony Stark (Robert Downey ...
Deception
Catholic News Service
4/28/2008, by John Mulderig
NEW YORK (CNS) -- "Deception" (20th Century Fox) is a dull, sometimes obvious thriller set in the world of New York's business elite. Life holds little excitement for lonely, uptight accountant Jonathan (Ewan McGregor) as he roams from one high-powered firm's offices to the next, auditing their ...
Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay
Catholic News Service
4/28/2008, by John Mulderig
NEW YORK (CNS) -- A potentially acute satiric adventure, "Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay" (New Line/Mandate) is, much like its predecessor, 2004's "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle," overwhelmed by sophomoric excess. Drug-addled slacker Kumar (Kal Penn) and his slightly more motivated ...
The Fall
Catholic News Service
4/28/2008, by Harry Forbes
NEW YORK (CNS) -- Picture a combination of "Pan's Labyrinth" and "The Princess Bride," with a sensibility closer to Bollywood than Tinseltown, and you have a vague idea of "The Fall" (Roadside), an exceedingly strange film that was 15 years in the making. This fitfully affecting tale, filmed in 18 ...
A Plumm Summer
Catholic News Service
4/25/2008, by John Mulderig
NEW YORK (CNS) -- "A Plumm Summer" (Home Team/Fairplay) is a gentle, winning coming-of-age tale -- based on real events -- set in rural Montana in 1968. Five-year-old Rocky Plumm (Owen Pearce) is so obsessed with local children's television puppet Froggy Doo, the star of his human sidekick Happy ...
Fugitive Pieces
Catholic News Service
4/25/2008, by Harry Forbes
NEW YORK (CNS) -- The traumatic effects of the Holocaust are dramatized in low-key but affecting fashion in "Fugitive Pieces" (Samuel Goldwyn). This quietly reflective story concerns a 9-year-old Jewish boy, Jakob (Robbie Kay), in Poland, separated from his family during the occupation. While he is ...
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