History (film genre)

NEW YORK (OSV News) – Viewers of “The Last Supper” (Pinnacle Peak), director and co-writer Mauro Borrelli’s dramatization of events surrounding the Passion, may be able to tell that he …

NEW YORK (OSV News) – In 2012, Scottish professional diver Chris Lemons was temporarily stranded at the bottom of the North Sea with a rapidly dwindling supply of oxygen. Both …

NEW YORK (OSV News) – Resilient matriarchs have never failed to inspire audiences. From Jane Darwell’s Ma Joad in the 1940 screen version of John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath” …

(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 …

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 …

NEW YORK (OSV News) – A blending of historical facts and Southern gothic fiction proves unstable in the biographical and literary drama “Wildcat” (Oscilloscope). As a result, director and co-writer …

(OSV News) — On the first day of filming for “Irena’s Vow” (Quiver), Sophie Nélisse had to witness a mass hanging. The Canadian actor, 24, has been making movies since …

NEW YORK (OSV News) – If writer-director Christopher Nolan’s impressive but uneven portrait “Oppenheimer” (Universal) is anything to go by, famed theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was a highly complex …

(OSV News) – The man, the pugilist, the grill, it’s all there in “Big George Foreman” (Sony). What may surprise viewers who haven’t followed the titular fighter’s career closely is …

NEW YORK (OSV News) – An apt subtitle for the forceful fact-based drama “Air” (Amazon) might be: “How to Succeed in Business by Trying Really Hard.” The film’s positive underlying …