The Informant
Catholic Media Review
10/20/2009, by Christine Schult
Based on a true story.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Catholic Media Review) - Mark Whitacre (Damon) works for Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), where he is a rising star. At first, he tells a story about being blackmailed by someone adding a virus to one of their food products. The next story he tells is one ...
Take My Voice With You
Catholic Online
7/1/2009, by Anita Crane
The Stoning of Soraya M., a beautiful compelling story from Iran, opens in U.S. movie theaters. WASHINGTON (Catholic Online) - The beauty of immutable truth commands a certain silence, and this paradox is reason to see The Stoning of Soraya M., which opened June 26 in select movie theaters across ...
Terminator Salvation
Catholic Media Review
6/2/2009, by Christine Schult
WASHINGTON (Catholic Media Review) - John Connor is leading the resistance against Skynet, which was a defense system which became self-aware, and is now making 'Terminators' at a record pace. Marcus Wright is an ex-con who was on death row. He was actually executed, but before he was, Dr Serena ...
UP
Catholic Media Review
6/2/2009, by Christine Schult
WASHINGTON (Catholic Media Review) - The first part of "Up" traces the lives of Carl and Ellie Fredricksen from the time they meet as kids, to when they get married. They go through this quickly, but this was my favorite part, and I really like the way they show them as 'partners' in their ...
Angels and Demons Review - An Unintended Impact
Catholic Online
5/22/2009, by Donald Clark
Los Angeles (Catholic Online) - Catholic Online recently reviewed the new Columbia Pictures/Imagine Entertainment production, Angels and Demons. The movie continues the Dan Brown story line featuring Harvard Professor, Langdon, played by Tom Hanks. Preface
Any artistic expression or endeavor in ...
'Angels and Demons': Movie Review
Catholic Media Review
5/20/2009, by Leticia Velasquez
If you want a scenic, thrilling adventure film ... and can stomach the cheap shots at Catholicism, “Angels and Demons” is worth a view. WASHINGTON (Catholic Online) - Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks), professor of symbology at Harvard University was swimming his customary laps in the University pool, ...
‘Battle for Terra'
McClatchy Newspapers
4/27/2009, by Roger Moore
The Orlando Sentinel (MCT) - "Battle for Terra" is a 3D oddity that's a war movie grafted onto an anti-war message. Naive but ambitious, it comes across as a "Battlestar Galactica" vetted by pacifists, "Clone Wars" neutered for Saturday morning kids' TV. Earth and its colonies have been destroyed ...
Summer 2009 movie preview: Ho-hum?
McClatchy Newspapers
4/27/2009, by Rick Bentley
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - There always is great anticipation for the slate of big-budget movies that fill local movie theaters during the summer. Why? Just look at what was in theaters last summer: "The Dark Knight," "Iron Man," "Speed Racer," "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian," "Sex and ...
Hugh Jackman's Wolverine is all the rage in ‘X-Men Origins'
McClatchy Newspapers
4/27/2009, by Frank Lovece
Newsday (MCT) - He may come from the Great White North, but the Marvel Comics character Wolverine isn't what you'd call "way Canadian." The national character of Canada, after all, includes a live-and-let-live reasonableness and humility you don't generally find in a guy who growls, "I'm the best ...
In such films as ‘The Soloist, the journalist is the message
McClatchy Newspapers
4/23/2009, by Carla Meyer
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - "The Soloist," opening Friday, tells the story of Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez's relationship to Nathaniel Ayers, a homeless, schizophrenic classical musician. It also, in a smaller way, tells the story of a newspaper industry in transition.
"As I watched ...
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