Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Catholic News Service
3/3/2008, by Harry Forbes
NEW YORK (CNS) -- "Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day" (Focus) is a colorful though uneven comedy set in London concerning prim English governess Guinevere Pettigrew (Frances McDormand), who, after being unfairly fired, decides to pursue a position about which she overhears at her employment agency. ...
CJ7
Catholic News Service
2/28/2008, by John Mulderig
NEW YORK (CNS) -- "To get rich is glorious!" So communist China's late leader, Deng Xiaoping often declared, and most of the characters in "CJ7" (Sony Classics), a generally enchanting, though somewhat flawed comic fable set in a contemporary Chinese city, would seem to agree. Two prominent ...
Penelope
Catholic News Service
2/28/2008, by John Mulderig
NEW YORK (CNS) -- Despite a few structural deficiencies, "Penelope" (Summit Entertainment) is overall a likeable romantic fairy tale that offers some valuable moral observations. As the result of an ancestral curse, Penelope Wilhern (charmingly spunky Christina Ricci), an otherwise beautiful London ...
Married Life
Catholic News Service
2/28/2008, by Harry Forbes
NEW YORK (CNS) -- Doris Day's cheery rendition of "I Can't Give You Anything but Love" which accompanies the lighthearted animated credits would seem to promise a breezy romantic comedy, but "Married Life" (Sony Classics) proves anything but. It's a handsome but sluggish period melodrama -- based ...
The Other Boleyn Girl
Catholic News Service
2/26/2008, by Harry Forbes
NEW YORK (CNS) -- "The Other Boleyn Girl" (Columbia/Focus) is a lushly filmed, fresh telling of the oft-dramatized liaison of Anne Boleyn (Natalie Portman) and King Henry VIII (Eric Bana), including the monarch's break with the Catholic Church so he could divorce his first wife, Catherine of Aragon ...
Witless Protection
Catholic News Service
2/22/2008, by John Mulderig
NEW YORK (CNS) - At one point in "Witless Protection" (Lionsgate), a character informs the film's star that his humor is "feeble, juvenile and bigoted." We couldn't have said it better ourselves. When Larry Stalder (Larry the Cable Guy), a headstrong rural sheriff's deputy, observes Madeleine ...
Charlie Bartlett
Catholic News Service
2/22/2008, by John Mulderig
NEW YORK (CNS) - "Heart speaks to heart." This motto, popularized by the great Victorian churchman Cardinal John Henry Newman, establishes the ambitious theme of "Charlie Bartlett" (Sidney Kimmel/MGM). Despite some positive messages, however, the off-beat comedy is marred by crude language and some ...
Vantage Point
Catholic News Service
2/22/2008, by Harry Forbes
NEW YORK (CNS) - As a wise man once said, it all depends on how you look at it. The aptly named "Vantage Point" (Columbia), a propulsive thriller about an attempted assassination of a U.S. president (William Hurt), gives us the same events in the same time frame from eight disparate perspectives. ...
The Counterfeiters (Die Falscher)
Catholic News Service
2/22/2008, by Harry Forbes
NEW YORK (CNS) - "The Counterfeiters" ("Die Falscher") (Sony Classics), the German nominee for this year's best foreign film Oscar, is an absorbing true story about the largest counterfeiting operation in history. In 1944, expert counterfeiter Salomon (nicknamed "Sally") Sorowitsch (Karl ...
Be Kind Rewind
Catholic News Service
2/19/2008, by Harry Forbes
NEW YORK (CNS) -- This modest little film is just endearing enough to earn some sort of cult status before long. The frenetic but warmhearted "Be Kind Rewind" (New Line/Partizan) centers on a small video store slated for demolition in a shabby neighborhood of Passaic, N.J.
Elderly store manager ...
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