THE MIRACLE CLUB By John Mulderig OSV News NEW YORK — A pilgrimage to Lourdes provides the framework for the tender drama “The Miracle Club” (Sony Classics). By turns humorous and touching, director Thaddeus O’Sullivan’s delicate film will appeal to grown-ups and perhaps mature teens. But it’s neither aimed at nor suitable for kids. […]
As culture shifts, church changes course on guidance on movies
By Chaz Muth Catholic News Service NEW YORK — Songwriter Bob Dylan wrote his celebrated anthem “The Times They Are a-Changin’” in 1963 and though it was penned as a hymn to the civil rights and anti-war movements of the era, it could also speak to the changing culture reflected in motion pictures. The movies […]
Movie review | THE TWO-POPES
Filmmakers’ bias is showing By John Mulderig Catholic News Service NEW YORK — In “The Two Popes” (Netflix), their glossy but highly speculative account of supposedly real events, screenwriter Anthony McCarten and director Fernando Meirelles ill-advisedly try to extol Pope Francis (Jonathan Pryce) by trashing retired Pope Benedict XVI (Anthony Hopkins). They even go so […]
MOVIE REVIEW | ‘Hesburgh’
An educational look back at tumultuous times By John Mulderig Catholic News Service NEW YORK — There was a time in the 1970s when Holy Cross Father Theodore Hesburgh (1917-2015) seemed to be ubiquitous. Well into his long tenure as president of the University of Notre Dame, Father Hesburgh had by then also been involved […]