No Country for Old Men
Catholic News Service
11/8/2007, by Harry Forbes
NEW YORK (CNS) -- Silence has never been so excruciatingly terrifying as it registers in this latest film from the Coen brothers, based on a 2003 novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy. Though Carter Burwell has a music credit, there's actually little heard -- and the dialogue ...
Dan in Real Life
Catholic News Service
11/1/2007, by Harry Forbes
NEW YORK (CNS) -- Steve Carrell may be the best reason to see "Dan in Real Life" (Touchstone/Focus), a pleasantly amusing if unremarkable comedy. He's in top form playing Dan Burns, who is a successful family advice columnist on the verge of national syndication and the widowed father of three ...
30 Days of Night
Catholic News Service
11/1/2007, by John Mulderig
NEW YORK (CNS) -- There's blood on the snow in "30 Days of Night" (Columbia). There's also an excess of gore on screen in this lurid, over-the-top exercise in horror. As Barrow, the northernmost town in Alaska, prepares for its annual month of darkness, Sheriff Eben Oleson (Josh Hartnett) has more ...
The Comebacks
Catholic News Service
11/1/2007, by John Mulderig
NEW YORK (CNS) -- Satire takes the field in "The Comebacks" (Fox Atomic). But there's not much joy in Mudville as this absurd sports comedy, like mighty Casey, strikes out. At the request of his admiring colleague, Freddie Wiseman (Carl Weathers), perennially losing coach Lambeau Fields (David ...
Sarah Landon and the Paranormal Hour
Catholic News Service
11/1/2007, by Kurt Jensen
NEW YORK (CNS) -- Much as we like to be supportive of family-friendly films, especially independent works made on modest budgets, "Sarah Landon and the Paranormal Hour" (Freestyle) is, we're afraid to say, the kind of Halloween film you'd be forgiven for wishing would be run out of town by parents ...
Slipstream
Catholic News Service
11/1/2007, by John Mulderig
NEW YORK (CNS) -- As its title suggests, "Slipstream" (Strand Releasing) is not an easy film to grasp. As it leaps, without warning, from seeming reality to various levels of hallucination, the movie is always visually daring. But it is also so disorienting that it will likely annoy even those few ...
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Catholic News Service
11/1/2007, by Harry Forbes
NEW YORK (CNS) -- We were indifferent to "Find Me Guilty," last year's offering from veteran director Sidney Lumet which starred Vin Diesel as a mobster conducting his own defense in court. But "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead" (ThinkFilm) -- the title derived from the Irish toast that begins, ...
Rails & Ties
Catholic News Service
11/1/2007, by John Mulderig
NEW YORK (CNS) -- An intimate, moving drama about the nature of familial love, "Rails & Ties" (Warner Bros.) takes on daunting themes with -- for the most part -- a deft touch. When Megan Stark (Marcia Gay Harden), a woman in her forties, learns that her breast cancer has spread and is now ...
Jimmy Carter Man From Plains
Catholic News Service
11/1/2007, by John Mulderig
NEW YORK (CNS) -- "Jimmy Carter Man From Plains" (Participant) is a thoughtful documentary about one man and one word. The man, of course, is the 39th president of the United States. The word? Apartheid. In 2006, the former president and prolific author chose to title his 21st book "Palestine: ...
American Gangster
Catholic News Service
11/1/2007, by Harry Forbes
NEW YORK (CNS) -- "American Gangster" (Universal) is a gritty, chaotically filmed true-life story set in Vietnam War-era 1970s New York. New Jersey cop Richie Roberts (Russell Crowe) is so scrupulously honest that when he finds a million dollars in a car trunk he turns it in to the derision of ...
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