Saw IV
Catholic News Service
11/1/2007, by John P. McCarthy
NEW YORK (CNS) -- Only a deranged optimist would expect progress on any front in the fourth installment of this blood-saturated horror franchise. Even with psychopath Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) dead, "Saw IV" (Lionsgate) offers more of the same tortuous mayhem. Seeing his autopsy carried out in the ...
Bee Movie
Catholic News Service
11/1/2007, by Harry Forbes
NEW YORK (CNS) -- "Bee Movie" (DreamWorks) may just do for bees what "Ratatouille" did for rats. The film, the brainchild of Jerry Seinfeld, is a generally delightful animated feature concerning a scrappy bee, Barry (voice of Seinfeld), who, after graduation, learns he will spend his entire life as ...
Martian Child
Catholic News Service
11/1/2007, by Harry Forbes
NEW YORK (CNS) -- "Martian Child" (New Line) is a delicate, highly unusual story -- based on David Gerrold's semiautobiographical short story, "The Martian Child" -- about widowed science fiction writer, David Gordon (John Cusack), with a yen for adopting a child to fill his empty life. On the ...
Lars and the Real Girl
Catholic News Service
10/18/2007, by Harry Forbes
NEW YORK (CNS) -- Once you hear the wildly improbable premise of this film, you might be tempted to give it a pass, but if you do, you'll be missing one of the year's most heartwarming and tender films, and an absolutely brilliant performance by star Ryan Gosling. "Lars and the Real Girl" ...
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Catholic News Service
10/18/2007, by John Mulderig
NEW YORK (CNS) -- Skillful cinema is put at the service of slipshod history in "Elizabeth: The Golden Age" (Universal). Most blatantly, the film presents its subject, England's celebrated "Virgin Queen," as an open-minded champion of religious freedom, a claim that would surprise the hundreds of ...
We Own the Night
Catholic News Service
10/18/2007, by Harry Forbes
NEW YORK (CNS) -- Move over, Tony Soprano. The Italian Mafia is out, and Russian mobsters are in. Or so it seems, with this current film coming hot on the heels of the excellent "Eastern Promises" set in London's Slavic underworld. A powerful character-driven police drama, "We Own the Night" ...
The Final Season
Catholic News Service
10/18/2007, by John Mulderig
NEW YORK (CNS) -- As much an examination of contemporary challenges to small-town American life as a celebration of baseball, "The Final Season" (Yari), based on true events, works competently in both capacities. As Kent Stock (Sean Astin) prepares to take over as coach of the Tigers, a Norway, ...
Rendition
Catholic News Service
10/18/2007, by Harry Forbes
NEW YORK (CNS) -- "Rendition" (New Line) is a quietly intense thriller concerning an American woman, Isabella (Reese Witherspoon), and her efforts to discover the whereabouts of her Egyptian-born husband, Anwar (Omar Metwally), a chemical engineer who has been abducted by the U.S. government upon ...
Things We Lost in the Fire
Catholic News Service
10/18/2007, by John Mulderig
NEW YORK (CNS) -- The unusual bond between a young widow and her late husband's best friend is the focus of "Things We Lost in the Fire" (DreamWorks), a film which moves dexterously from moments of clever humor to painfully deep emotion. The result is captivating. In the immediate aftermath of the ...
Reservation Road
Catholic News Service
10/18/2007, by Harry Forbes
NEW YORK (CNS) -- "Reservation Road" (Focus/Random House) is a riveting drama about the efforts of Ethan Lerner (Joaquin Phoenix), an increasingly obsessive college professor, to identify the driver who killed his 10-year-old son, Josh (Sean Curley), in a hit-and-run accident. After Josh's cello ...
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