NEW YORK (OSV News) – Oregon, it can safely be said, features some of North America’s most scenic landscapes. In the tense, hard-edged horror film “Wolf Man” (Universal), however, the …
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NEW YORK (OSV News) – An artistic and scientific giant gets the Ken Burns treatment in the documentary “Leonardo da Vinci.” The results are predictably pleasing. The four-hour film — …
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NEW YORK (OSV News) – Gentle and family-oriented, “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever” (Lionsgate) offers top-flight holiday entertainment for a wide range of age groups. In adapting author Barbara Robinson’s …
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NEW YORK (OSV News) – Designed to present a portion of the Gospel narrative to fans of mixed martial arts fighting and heavy metal music, the biblical drama “The Carpenter” …
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NEW YORK (OSV News) – A serious, even lugubrious, tone and a top-flight cast add heft to the ecclesiastical melodrama “Conclave” (Focus). Yet the film is fundamentally a power-struggle potboiler …
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NEW YORK (OSV News) — Any connection between the animated adventure “Transformers One” (Paramount) and the great Catholic historian Lord Acton may seem unlikely. Yet director Josh Cooley’s film is …
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NEW YORK (OSV News) – Many have observed that one of the characteristic strengths of President Ronald Reagan’s political career was the fact that he focused on a few strongly-held …
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NEW YORK (OSV News) – Writer-director M. Night Shyamalan can be credited with a certain degree of originality in the crafting of his thriller “Trap.” And, though the film as …
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NEW YORK (OSV News) – It’s been just over 85 years since artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger gave the world its most famous chiropteran crimefighter. The latest iteration …
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NEW YORK (OSV News) – Evident good intentions are not matched by dramatic craftsmanship in the fantasy “Harold and the Purple Crayon” (Columbia). Though director Carlos Saldanha’s blend of animation …
