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Two rogue turkeys travel back in time to change the “main course” of American history in this 3-D animated comedy, directed and co-written by Jimmy Hayward. The president of the United States (voice of Hayward) pardons a Thanksgiving turkey (voice of Owen Wilson), who enjoys a luxurious life at Camp David until a fellow bird […]
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Enlightened and well-wrought science-fiction movie, based on the prescient 1985 book of the same name, about a 12-year-old (Asa Butterfield) chosen to lead Earth’s military forces against an alien race that 50 years earlier tried to colonize the planet, resulting in the deaths of millions. Mentored by a bellicose colonel (Harrison Ford) and the hero […]
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A series of juvenile pranks on real people strung together with a road-trip plot doesn’t make for much of a film. Director Jeff Tremaine, who co-wrote the screenplay with Spike Jonze and Johnny Knoxville, has Knoxville’s character, just-widowed 86-year-old Irving Zisman, driving his 8-year-old grandson (Jackson Nicoll) from Nebraska to North Carolina because the lad’s […]
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More intelligent than many of its genre peers, this actioner pairing Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger is also too harsh for all but the hardiest viewers. Stallone plays an expert on prison security who poses as an inmate to test each institution he investigates. He gets more than he bargained for, however, when he goes […]
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A peepshow of human degradation, this ensemble drama alternates between glamorizing evil and parading its most torturous results – both physical and emotional – for shock value. The plot concerns a previously legitimate lawyer (Michael Fassbender) who gets involved in a drug deal that entangles him with a shady nightclub owner (Javier Bardem), the proprietor’s […]
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By-rote remake of the eponymous1976 horror outing – based, like its predecessor, on Stephen King’s 1974 novel. This time it’s Chloe Grace Moretz who’s endowed with powerful telekinetic powers, and uses them to take bloody vengeance at the senior prom on classmates who have humiliated her. Director Kimberly Peirce puts Carrie and her deranged religious […]
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By Seth Gonzalescatholic News Service
DALLAS – Surveying the scene at this year’s National Conference for Diocesan Vocation Directors convention in Dallas, Father Matthew Pawlikowski recounted an experience he has often had with soldiers in the military. “Some of the guys will say, ‘Hey Chaplain, where’s your weapon?’ I tell them, ‘Right here,'” said Father Pawlikowski, slapping his hands together […]
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Less sexuality-soaked and blasphemous than 2010’s “Machete” – but just as gory – this action sequel is too much a deadening exercise in creative butchery, foul language and general vulgarity to make it worth viewing. Director Robert Rodriguez, working from a script by Kyle Ward, has created a winking homage to 1970s exploitation films in […]
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Fact-based drama examining the history of the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks – and the personality of its founder, Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) – through the eyes of one of his closest collaborators (Daniel Bruhl), a German tech whiz. Cumberbatch turns in a masterful performance that captures both the charismatic and hostile aspects of his subject’s enigmatic […]
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By Dave Borowski
There is a religious object in Father Joel D. Jaffe’s Chancery office that you don’t usually see in a priest’s workplace. On the top shelf of a bookcase stacked with Catholic and Christian texts and pushed against a wall dotted with photographs of basilicas in Rome is a leather pouch with the Star of David […]
