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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 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 […]
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By John P. Mccarthy Catholic News Service
NEW YORK – Docudramas tend to underwhelm emotionally, intellectually or both. That’s not the case with “Captain Phillips” (Columbia), a complex and compassionate film that engrosses from the start and builds inexorably toward a devastating conclusion. Prepare to be hooked. Considered alongside his 2006 project “United 93,” about the airplane that crashed into a Pennsylvania […]
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By Katie Bahr
A little more than 13 years ago, Patrick Kokorian would have described himself as a “nominal Catholic” who put his own desires ahead of his faith. After making a vow to put God’s will first, he eventually became a Maronite monk at Most Holy Trinity Monastery in Petersham, Mass. Today, Brother Patrick is counting down […]
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Cheerful animated comedy in which the young inventor (voice of Bill Hader) of a machine that turns water into food learns from his idol, a famed scientist and corporate guru (voice of Will Forte), that the device, which he thought had been disabled, has continued to function and is now producing animals made out of […]
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt writes, directs and stars in this comedy about an Italian Catholic bartender in suburban New Jersey whose addiction to pornography threatens to undermine his budding romance with the bridge-and-tunnel bombshell of his dreams (Scarlett Johansson). Despite perceptible good intentions – limited moral guidance is provided by an earthy older woman (Julianne Moore) the […]
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By Catholic News Service
NEW YORK (CNS) – Here is a list of recent films that Catholic News Service has rated on the basis of moral suitability. The first symbol after each title is the Catholic News Service classification. The second symbol is the rating of the Motion Picture Association of America. CNS classifications: A-I – general patronage; A-II […]
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