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After serving as a bridesmaid 27 times, a young woman (Heigl) wrestles with the idea of standing by her sister's side as her sibling marries the man she's secretly in love with.

27 Dresses
Catholic News Service
1/17/2008, by Harry Forbes

NEW YORK (CNS) -- Always a bridesmaid, never a bride, and that's how Jane Nichols, the heroine of the glossy but formulaic romantic comedy "27 Dresses" (Fox), likes it. This perennial bridesmaid, played engagingly by Katherine Heigl, has been a hopeless romantic since girlhood but has shied away ...

Three female employees of the Federal Reserve plot to steal money that is about to be destroyed.

Mad Money
Catholic News Service
1/16/2008, by Harry Forbes

NEW YORK (CNS) -- Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah and Katie Holmes may seem an unlikely trio of thieves, but their onscreen chemistry is as effective as the scheme they concoct to smuggle money out of the Federal Reserve Bank where they work in the clever and fast-paced caper comedy "Mad Money" ...

A man named Farmer sets out to rescue his kidnapped wife and avenge the death of his son -- two acts committed by the Krugs, a race of animal-warriors who are controlled by the evil Gallian.

In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
Catholic News Service
1/16/2008, by John Mulderig

NEW YORK (CNS) -- Ludicrously overblown, overacted and overlong, "In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale" (Freestyle) is yet another fantasy adventure based on a video game. Our hero is a peaceable peasant named, with a singular lack of imagination, Farmer (Jason Statham). He lives a ...

Durell (Ice Cube) and LeeJohn (Tracy Morgan) are best friends and bumbling petty criminals. When told they have one week to pay a $17,000 debt or Durell will lose his son, they come up with a desperate scheme to rob their neighborhood church.

First Sunday
Catholic News Service
1/16/2008, by John Mulderig

NEW YORK (CNS) -- You're never out of options, or second chances. That's the reassuring message of "First Sunday" (Screen Gems), a lively and effective comic drama featuring an ensemble of gifted actors in fine form. After losing his job in a Baltimore electronics store, good-hearted but unwise ...

Three lazy misfits - very timid Elliot (Larry the Cucumber), lazy Sedgewick (Mr. Lunt) and no self-confident George (Pa Grape) - dream of the day of putting on a show about pirates.

The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie
Catholic News Service
1/8/2008, by John Mulderig

NEW YORK (CNS) -- A trio of busboys from "The Pieces of Ate," a pirate-themed dinner theater, get the chance to experience the swashbuckling lifestyle firsthand in "The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie" (Universal). The result is a breezy, computer-animated children's adventure ...

In this remake of the Japanese horror film

One Missed Call
Catholic News Service
1/8/2008, by Kurt Jensen

NEW YORK (CNS) -- Ring-a-ding-ding -- you're doomed! In the hands of a more creative screenwriter and director, a horror picture such as "One Missed Call" (Warner Bros.) might have been an imaginative and original black comedy about the forces of evil harnessing ubiquitous communications devices to ...

A story about family, greed, religion, and oil, centered around a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business.

There Will Be Blood
Catholic News Service
1/4/2008, by Harry Forbes

NEW YORK (CNS) - "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage/Miramax) is an extraordinarily fine drama loosely based on Upton Sinclair's 1927 muckraking novel, "Oil!" set during the early 20th century. It charts the rise and fall of a silver miner turned ruthless oil tycoon, Daniel Plainview (Daniel ...

When the life of mega film star, Michael Steele (Travis), is destroyed right before the most important day of his life, his faith is put to the ultimate test.

The Wager
Catholic News Service
1/2/2008, by John Mulderig

NEW YORK (CNS) -- "It's not who you are, it's who you look like you are." So says a character in "The Wager" (Pure Flix), an honorable but labored movie designed to convey precisely the opposite message. Michael Steele (Randy Travis) is a successful actor and a dedicated evangelical Christian. ...

Warring alien and predator races descend on a small town, where unsuspecting residents must band together for any chance of survival.

Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem
Catholic News Service
1/2/2008, by Kurt Jensen

NEW YORK (CNS) -- Toward the end of "Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem" (20th Century Fox), the residents of a small town, having been menaced for nearly 90 minutes by rapidly breeding, human-impaling aliens, find a nuclear missile coming their way to liven things up. An atomic explosion as plot relief ...

Corprate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers have nothing in common except for their terminal illnesses. While sharing a hospital room together, they decide to leave it and do all the things they have ever wanted to do before they die according to their bucket list.

The Bucket List
Catholic News Service
12/26/2007, by Harry Forbes

NEW YORK (CNS) -- "The Bucket List" (Warner Bros.) is an unremarkable, formulaic, only mildly entertaining story about two cancer patients: wealthy, womanizing tycoon Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson) and middle-class garage mechanic Carter Chambers (Morgan Freeman). When, rather uncomfortably sharing a ...

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