Tag: Movie review

By Joseph McAleer UglyDolls calls to mind that age-old saying, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” The ‘ugly dolls’ of this movie are based...

Family life is exalted over egotistical self-reliance in Shazam! (Warner Bros.), director David Sandberg’s DC Comics-based origin story. Though there’s a warm tone to the...

By John Mulderig The sight of a cuddly baby elephant taking to the skies is clearly meant to send spirits soaring in Dumbo (Disney), director...

By John Mulderig The most frequently used word in the animated adventure Wonder Park is “splendiferous.” But the constant, eventually annoying, repetition of the term only...

By John Mulderig With the sci-fi drama Captive State (Focus), director and co-writer Rupert Wyatt has set out to tell a thoughtful, complex story and...

By John Mulderig Wit, positive messages and lavish production values buoy the movie setting out the origin story Captain Marvel. While some of the mythos in...

By John Mulderig In his 1922 book What I Saw in America, the great Catholic writer G.K. Chesterton reflects on how beautiful New York’s Times...

By John Mulderig Everything viewers need to know about the futuristic action adventure Alita: Battle Angel (Fox) is summed up in the line of dialogue...

Funny thing about recent Hollywood comedies, many of them are anything but. Whether marred by a post-Hangover desire to be outrageous or by actions or...

By Joseph McAleer Everything is (still) awesome in The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (Warner Bros.), a spirited and amusing sequel to 2014’s The Lego...