Love Songs (Les Chansons D'Amour)
Catholic News Service
3/13/2008, by Harry Forbes
NEW YORK (CNS) -- "Love Songs" ("Les Chansons D'Amour") (IFC/Red Envelope) is a melancholy semi-musical (with 13 songs by Alex Beaupain) about Ismael, a rather callow young Jewish man (Louis Garrel) grieving after the sudden death of his longtime girlfriend, Julie (Ludivine Sagnier), who collapses ...
Sleepwalking
Catholic News Service
3/12/2008, by Harry Forbes
NEW YORK (CNS) -- Solid performances and a touching central relationship between a simple, good-hearted man and his 11-year-old niece are some compensation for a generally downbeat tale that never entirely rings true. "Sleepwalking" (Overture) is a somber working-class story of a good-hearted ...
Under the Same Moon (La Misma Luna)
Catholic News Service
3/12/2008, by John Mulderig
NEW YORK (CNS) -- A plucky 9-year-old boy faces the dangers of undocumented immigration in "Under the Same Moon" ("La Misma Luna") (Fox Searchlight/Weinstein), a film that movingly dramatizes the real-life ordeal of millions of children left behind by their migrant parents. Young Carlos Reyes ...
Funny Games
Catholic News Service
3/12/2008, by Harry Forbes
NEW YORK (CNS) -- The name-the-opera-singer game that vacationing couple Ann (Naomi Watts) and George (Tim Roth) and their young son, Georgie (Devon Gearhart), play in their car during the opening minutes of "Funny Games" (Warner Independent) provides about the only worry-free moments in this ...
Dr. Suess' Horton Hears a Who
Catholic News Service
3/10/2008, by John Mulderig
NEW YORK (CNS) -- "A person's a person, no matter how small!" So runs the motto of the title character in "Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who" (20th Century Fox), an enchanting computer-generated animated adaptation of Theodore Geisel's classic 1954 children's book. The story is a familiar one: Enjoying ...
10,000 B.C.
Catholic News Service
3/7/2008, by Harry Forbes
NEW YORK (CNS) -- The film begins with some portentous narration solemnly intoned by Omar Sharif putting the film in its fictional historical perspective. But once the action gets going, "10,000 B.C." (Warner Bros.) proves an all too familiar and only fitfully involving epic taking place at the end ...
College Road Trip
Catholic News Service
3/6/2008, by John Mulderig
NEW YORK (CNS) -- "College Road Trip" (Disney) is an unobjectionable, though uninspired, family comedy. While the film conveys good messages about parental concern and the need for trust, most of its humor is too implausible to really work. Small-town Illinois police chief James Porter (Martin ...
The Bank Job
Catholic News Service
3/3/2008, by John Mulderig
When shady car salesman Terry Leather (Jason Statham), a small-time criminal, is tipped off by his friend, model Martine Love (Saffron Burrows), that an upscale bank's safe deposit boxes are vulnerable to theft, the opportunity to step up to the big leagues proves irresistible. All the more so, ...
Semi-Pro
Catholic News Service
3/3/2008, by John Mulderig
NEW YORK (CNS) -- "Everybody panic!" yells the main character in one of the few genuinely funny scenes in the outlandish sports comedy "Semi-Pro" (New Line). This voice of unreason belongs to Jackie Moon (Will Ferrell), a singer who has used the proceeds from his one hit song to become the owner ...
Bonneville
Catholic News Service
3/3/2008, by Harry Forbes
NEW YORK (CNS) -- If it had nothing else to offer, "Bonneville" (SenArt/Drop of Water) -- which has been awaiting release since 2006 -- provides a chance to see three fine actresses at the top of their game. It tells the touching story of Arvilla Holden (Jessica Lange), a Pocatello, Idaho, widow, ...
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