OSV News classification: A-III

In the lead-up to Pope Leo XIV’s Nov. 15 meeting with a group of Hollywood actors and directors, the Vatican offered an insight into the American-born pontiff’s cinematic taste by …

For better or worse, the sports biopic “The Smashing Machine” (A24) registers as a highly realistic film.

Old-fashioned in the best sense, “Superman” celebrates the small-town values with which its protagonist was raised. Yet the screenplay aims for contemporary resonance as well.

Offered big money by the representative of a pharmaceutical company to help retrieve dinosaur DNA, two special operatives veterans and a paleontologist join on a journey to a remote equatorial …

‘Tis the season for popcorn pictures and the slick but shallow sports drama “F1 the Movie” (Warner Bros.) fits the bill.

After psychiatric treatment fails to cure the long-time mental troubles of Emma Schmidt, Father Riesinger is authorized to try to free the tormented young woman of demonic possession.

(OSV News) — “Anora,” a film containing such graphic sexual content that it can arguably be categorized as pornographic, was honored as 2024’s Best Picture at the 97th annual Academy …

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” …

NEW YORK (OSV News) – The mind-control plot driving “Captain America: Brave New World” (Disney), the fourth film in the current series about the Marvel Comics character, drains it of …