Movies
Updated: December 7th, 2011
'The Iron Lady' is touching biopic
ADAM SHAW, Catholic News Service
Friday, 27 January 2012
NEW YORK (CNS) -- The British market a brand of yeast spread called Marmite. Due to its overwhelmingly strong taste, its label carries the slogan "Love it or Hate it." As a result of the visceral reactions, both pro and con, stirred by her controversial 1979-1990 tenure in office, former U.K. leade...
KURT JENSEN, Catholic News Service
Friday, 20 January 2012
NEW YORK (CNS)—The last time audiences watched flag-waving hokum on the order of "Red Tails" (Fox), the show may have included a cartoon and a newsreel, and war bonds may have been for sale in the lobby. Patriotic corn, it seems, is not a staple th...
JOHN MULDERIG, Catholic News Service
Friday, 13 January 2012
NEW YORK (CNS)—Divas duel and a red-state Romeo and Juliet fall for each other in "Joyful Noise" (Warner Bros.). Though it gives a pass to an incidental out-of-wedlock fling, and showcases some humor and vocabulary that make it unsuitable for youn...
JOHN P. McCARTHY, Catholic News Service
Friday, 06 January 2012
NEW YORK (CNS)—Of the various endangered species populating "We Bought a Zoo" (Fox), a man hoping for sufficient time to grieve his wife's death is arguably the most threatened. Based on the real-life experiences of British writer Benjamin Mee, th...
JOHN MULDERIG, Catholic News Service
Friday, 09 December 2011
NEW YORK (CNS)—A disappointing salute to an often disappointing social event, "New Year's Eve" (Warner Bros.) wastes a talented ensemble cast on a painfully forced romantic comedy. Reuniting for a follow-up to 2010's "Valentine's Day," director Ga...
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Wednesday, 07 December 2011
TOLEDO—“Catholicism,” a multi-part documentary series, begins airing at 3 p.m. Dec. 13 on WGTE. One episode is being aired each subsequent Tuesday at 3 p.m. until Jan. 3. The series is airing i...
JOSEPH McALEER, Catholic News Service
Friday, 02 December 2011
NEW YORK (CNS)—Nearly 50 years after her 1962 death, Marilyn Monroe continues to fascinate, with every detail of her often troubled life and loves endlessly dissected and analyzed. The latest treatm...
JOHN MULDERIG, Catholic News Service
Friday, 11 November 2011
NEW YORK (CNS)—Over a career that began during World War I and endured almost until the era of Watergate, famed founding director of the FBI J. Edgar Hoover (1895-1972) battled communists, gangsters...
JOHN MULDERIG, Catholic News Service
Friday, 26 August 2011
NEW YORK (CNS)—As it follows its gentle, ridiculously naive central character's efforts to navigate his way through the cynical jungle of modern society, "Our Idiot Brother" (Weinstein) recalls such...
LAURIE STEVENS BERTKE, Chronicle Writer
Tuesday, 26 July 2011
NOVI, Mich.—A motion picture that was partially filmed on location at Toledo’s Monastery of the Visitation premieres Aug. 1 at Emagine Theatre in Novi, Mich. From left, Joe Maher and Lu...