(OSV News) — This year’s Academy Award nominations were announced on Jan. 23. Following, in alphabetical order, are capsule reviews of the 10 films contending for Best Picture. The Oscars …
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NEW YORK (OSV News) – Comic chaos is the order of the day in “Dog Man” (Universal), the animated adaptation of a series of graphic novels by Dav Pilkey. Yet …
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NEW YORK (OSV News) – The buddy comedy “One of Them Days” (TriStar) certainly comes equipped with a high energy level. Its frenzied proceedings, however, are sometimes vulgar and ultimately …
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(OSV News) — The year just passed was an ordinary one for Hollywood. In a sense, that’s good news since the film industry is still on the rebound from the …
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NEW YORK (OSV News) – Film buffs will easily recognize that the atmospheric horror yarn “Nosferatu” (Focus) is both a variation on and an homage to the eponymous 1922 silent …
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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 …
