Over Her Dead Body
Catholic News Service
1/31/2008, by Harry Forbes
NEW YORK (CNS) -- Next to "Blithe Spirit," Noel Coward's witty 1940s' play (and movie) about the ghost of a late wife trying to undermine her husband's love life, the similarly themed "Over Her Dead Body" (New Line) is lame indeed. This bland romantic comedy concerns a combination psychic and ...
Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert
Catholic News Service
1/31/2008, by John Mulderig
NEW YORK (CNS) -- For a film that's literally a scream, check out "Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert" (Disney). Audiences in this exuberant, refreshingly innocent live-performance feature greet the 15-year-old singing star with a series of high-decibel blowouts even Lennon ...
Bordertown
Catholic News Service
1/31/2008, by John Mulderig
NEW YORK (CNS) -- An ongoing series of real life crimes in northern Mexico provides the basis for "Bordertown" (THINKFilm). The investigative drama built on these events, though necessarily bleak, is worthy and absorbing. At the behest of her editor and mentor, George Morgan (Martin Sheen), ...
Meet the Spartans
Catholic News Service
1/25/2008, by John Mulderig
NEW YORK (CNS) -- "Meet the Spartans" (20th Century Fox), a parody of 2007's "300," sets out to conquer audiences by satirizing everything from "American Idol" to Gatorade. But this always childish and often crude comedy limps more than it marches. The story will be familiar to fans of last year's ...
Untraceable
Catholic News Service
1/25/2008, by Harry Forbes
NEW YORK (CNS) -- "Untraceable" (Screen Gems) is a grimly unpleasant thriller concerning an Internet killer who tortures kidnapped victims on a Web site he calls "killswithme.com." (His first victim -- not counting the cat dispatched in the opening scenes -- has those words artistically carved into ...
Rambo
Catholic News Service
1/25/2008, by John Mulderig
NEW YORK (CNS) -- "Rambo" (Lionsgate), the latest offering in a franchise begun in 1982, is remarkable only for the toxic level of graphic violence enabled by recent advances in special effects. Indeed, just about every ill that can be perpetrated on a human body seems to be portrayed on-screen in ...
How She Move
Catholic News Service
1/24/2008, by John Mulderig
NEW YORK (CNS) -- The traditional style of African-American dance known as "stepping" gets a big screen showcase in the musical drama "How She Move" (Paramount Vantage). While buoyantly entertaining, the film gently conveys some positive moral messages along the way. Raya Green (Rutina Wesley) is ...
The Air I Breathe
Catholic News Service
1/23/2008, by John Mulderig
NEW YORK (CNS) -- Four interconnected stories, each based on one of the four emotions an ancient Chinese proverb held to be essential to life, comprise the narrative of "The Air I Breathe" (THINKFilm). Together they make up an energetic but seamy study of characters trapped by their own passions. ...
Cloverfield
Catholic News Service
1/17/2008, by John Mulderig
NEW YORK (CNS) -- "The Blair Witch Project" meets "Independence Day" with a high-tech Godzilla thrown in for good measure in "Cloverfield" (Paramount). The skillful rearrangement of familiar elements, however, makes for an effective exercise in horror. Rob Hawkins (Michael Stahl-David) is a young ...
Cassandra's Dream
Catholic News Service
1/17/2008, by Harry Forbes
NEW YORK (CNS) -- Writer-director Woody Allen's third London-based film in a row, following the excellent drama "Match Point" and the so-so whimsical comedy-mystery "Scoop," is closer to the first in tone, but far less persuasive. "Cassandra's Dream" (Weinstein) proves a fairly interesting but ...
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