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Updated: August 27th, 2010
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JOHN MULDERIG, Catholic News Service
Friday, 27 August 2010
NEW YORK (CNS)—"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." So says the haunted Prince of Denmark in the first act of Shakespeare's "Hamlet," and so the main character discovers in the middling fright fest "The Last Exorcism" (Lionsgate).While the gore factor is kept comparatively low in director Daniel Stamm's Gothic outing, an ambiguous approach to faith and a dark occult atmospher...
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JOHN MULDERIG, Catholic News Service
Friday, 20 August 2010
NEW YORK (CNS)—Though it showcases some of the tangled emotional complications brought about by severing conception from its divinely intended source and setting, the bond of marital love, "The Switch" (Miramax) — a frequently dista...
JOHN MULDERIG, Catholic News Service
Wednesday, 11 August 2010
NEW YORK (CNS)—Though presumably aimed at a teen audience, the action comedy "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" (Universal) is too wildly violent and sexually freewheeling to be endorsed for young or old. This is all the more regrettable s...
JOSEPH McALEER, Catholic News Service
Friday, 06 August 2010
NEW YORK (CNS)—Wizards are fighting, dragons are circling overhead and the natural world has lost its balance in "Tales From Earthsea" (Walt Disney/Studio Ghibli), a Japanese anime adaptation of the popular book series by Ursula K. Le...
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Saturday, 19 June 2010
SYLVANIA—Sylvania Franciscan Sister Judy Zielinski received a Gabriel Award from the Catholic Academy for Communication Arts Professionals for her documentary “Interrupted Lives: Catholic Sisters Under European Communism.”   ...
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KURT JENSEN, Catholic News Service
Friday, 11 June 2010
NEW YORK (CNS)—"Killers" (Lionsgate) is very much the definition of mindless fun, if you enjoy virtually any of Ashton Kutcher's antics.Director Robert Luketic and screenwriters Bob De...
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Tuesday, 05 January 2010
MAUMEE—“Losing Maria,” a prevention film about domestic minor sex trafficking, premieres Jan. 10 with screenings at 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. at the Maumee Indoor Theatre, 601 Conant St.Th...
LAURIE STEVENS BERTKE, Chronicle Writer
Saturday, 26 September 2009
TOLEDO—A community of cloistered nuns gave a Catholic production company rare access inside their Toledo monastery to shoot scenes for an upcoming movie that features one of their own....

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