Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
Catholic News Service
4/25/2008, by Harry Forbes and John Mulderig
NEW YORK (CNS) -- Unlike some Christian communities, the Catholic Church considers the theory that the human body evolved from pre-existing living matter, proposed originally by Charles Darwin (1809-1882), to be compatible with the religious truth revealed in the creation narratives in the Book of ...
Baby Mama
Catholic News Service
4/23/2008, by John Mulderig
NEW YORK (CNS) -- "Baby Mama" (Universal/Relativity) is a frequently funny but morally problematic romantic comedy about one woman's obsession with having a child. Thirty-seven and single, hard-driving grocery chain executive Kate (Tina Fey), who has long put career ahead of family, has begun to ...
Constantine's Sword
Catholic News Service
4/23/2008, by Harry Forbes and John Mulderig
NEW YORK (CNS) -- In "Constantine's Sword" (First Run), an earnest but unbalanced documentary based on his book, "Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews -- A History," Boston Globe columnist James Carroll surveys the fraught history of Christian anti-Semitism, particularly as it plays out ...
Roman de Gare
Catholic News Service
4/23/2008, by Harry Forbes
NEW YORK (CNS) -- The title refers to the sort of popular fiction sold at European train stations -- not great literature, but an entertaining read. "Roman de Gare" (Samuel Goldwyn) is certainly entertaining, but in distinguished director Claude Lelouch's hands, it is also a product of considerable ...
Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?
Catholic News Service
4/21/2008, by John Mulderig
NEW YORK (CNS) -- The genial but not particularly insightful documentary "Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?" (Weinstein) chronicles average citizen Morgan Spurlock's ostensible search for the titular terrorist. Although Spurlock, who also directed, doesn't get his man -- no spoiler that! -- he ...
Then She Found Me
Catholic News Service
4/18/2008, by Harry Forbes
NEW YORK (CNS) -- "Then She Found Me" (THINKFilm) is a sometimes engaging but mostly humdrum tale about glum schoolteacher April (Helen Hunt) in midlife crisis. The film opens with her elaborate Jewish wedding, then flashes forward one year, with husband Ben (Matthew Broderick) informing her he ...
88 Minutes
Catholic News Service
4/17/2008, by Harry Forbes
NEW YORK (CNS) -- "88 Minutes" (TriStar) is a shoddy, strictly B-level thriller set in Seattle about Jack Gramm (Al Pacino), a forensic psychiatrist whose testimony leads to death sentence for serial killer Jon Forster (Neal McDonough). In the film's opening scenes we've already witnessed one of ...
The Forbidden Kingdom
Catholic News Service
4/15/2008, by John Mulderig
NEW YORK (CNS) -- "The Forbidden Kingdom" (Casey Silver/Relativity/Huayi Brothers/Weinstein/Lionsgate) is a glossy, scenic kung fu fantasy with a plotline borrowed partly from Chinese mythology and partly from "The Wizard of Oz." Knocked out by a bully, Boston teen and martial-arts fan Jason ...
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Catholic News Service
4/15/2008, by Harry Forbes
NEW YORK (CNS) -- "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" (Universal), the latest romantic comedy from the producer of "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" and "Knocked Up," is often touching and funny. But, like its predecessors, it is also frequently vulgar.
Jason Segel plays Peter Bretter, a TV composer, and also ...
Prom Night
Catholic News Service
4/14/2008, by John Mulderig
NEW YORK (CNS) -- A crazed slasher crashes "Prom Night" (Screen Gems) with all-too-predictable results. Back when she was a freshman, Donna (Brittany Snow) drew the unwanted attention of obsessive teacher Richard Fenton (Johnathon Schaech). When her parents got a restraining order, he responded by ...
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