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2019-12-27T11:34:27-07:00

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1917 is a relentless video game-like imagining of World War I

Last updated on: December 27, 2019 at 11:34 am By Sister Rose

“1917” is a relentless video game-like imagining of one day during World War I. Though it shows the horrors of war, Sam Mendes’ indulgent spectacle fails to take into account the audiences’ will or ability to sustain almost two hours of horror for a five-minute denouement. As a whole, the film fails cinematically even if some scenes are effective. It is not based on one true story, but an amalgamation of memories. Set in the trenches in France, mild-mannered British... Read more

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2019-12-07T13:41:16-07:00

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“Dark Waters” should disturb us into action

Last updated on: December 7, 2019 at 1:41 pm By Sister Rose

Mark Ruffalo as attorney Rob Billot in “Dark Waters” Courtesy of (c) Focus Features The first thing you think of when you begin watching director Todd Haynes’ legal crime drama “Dark Waters” is “Erin Brockovich” – the person and the 2000 movie that won Julia Roberts an Oscar for best Actress. The next thing you think of is Steven Zaillian’s “A Civil Action,” the 1998 film where John Travolta plays attorney Jan Schlichtmann. What do the three films have in common? The... Read more

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2019-05-08T18:07:56-06:00

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CNN’s ‘Redemption Project with Van Jones’ is compelling and profound

Last updated on: May 8, 2019 at 6:07 pm By Sister Rose

CNN’s new original series, The Redemption Project with Van Jones, premiered at Easter and concludes in June. Be sure not to miss any of the remaining episodes airing on Sunday evenings at 9 PM Et/PT. You can catch past episodes on CNN mobile apps. This series, week after week, is an adventure is restorative justice through asking, giving and receiving forgiveness, opportunities for perpetrators of crimes to take responsibility for their actions. Restorative justice is the opposite of punitive justice... Read more

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2019-05-04T17:07:31-06:00

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‘Non-Fiction’ shows people lost in a publishing limbo (Doubles vies)

Last updated on: May 4, 2019 at 5:07 pm By Sister Rose

I would like to introduce you to a film by the writer-director Richard Linklater of France: Oliver Assayas. This is so at least in his new film “Non-Fiction.” Why, you ask? Because he, the screenwriter, just cannot stop talking. After the first ten minutes of the film I thought I was listening to Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy talking and talking as they do in Linklater’s “Before” trilogy, hoping they would actually do something other than pose and re-pose at... Read more

2019-05-02T20:00:33-06:00

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‘Photograph’ is an endearing romance

Last updated on: May 2, 2019 at 8:00 pm By Sister Rose

Photo courtesy of (c) Amazon StudiosRafi (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) lives in Mumbai with several other young men working to support themselves and send money back home. Rafi is particularly focused on earning enough to pay off debts and buy back the family home in his village. One day he takes a photo of Miloni (Sanya Malhotra), a young woman who is visiting the tourist attraction where he has stationed himself to take pictures and develop them on the spot for money.... Read more

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2019-05-02T19:54:41-06:00

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Knock Down The House: a doc about four women of the 2018 election

Last updated on: May 2, 2019 at 7:54 pm By Sister Rose

This documentary premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January of this year and is now available on Netflix. It documents the primary campaigns of four female Democratic candidates who decide to run for the seats in Congress: Amy Vilela of Nevada, Cori Bush of Missouri, Paula Jean Swearengin of West Virginia, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York. Each of these candidates was chosen through the efforts of two organizations made up of people who supported Bernie Sanders in the... Read more

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2019-05-02T19:46:21-06:00

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Ugly Dolls: self-confidence, positive body image and kindness

Last updated on: May 2, 2019 at 7:46 pm By Sister Rose

A factory produces different kinds of felt dolls, and all of them must pass through quality control inspection. When a doll is deemed imperfect, it is sent to a hidden and remote inlet along the shoreline called Uglyville. There, Ox (voice of Blake Shelton) is the paternal figure watching over the community of misfit dolls, who enjoy life. They do not see their imperfections or compare themselves to anyone else. Moxy (voice of Kelly Clarkson) is a happy doll... Read more

2019-04-19T19:45:10-06:00

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Red Joan: the indefatigable Judy Dench is the spy who never got cold

Last updated on: April 19, 2019 at 7:45 pm By Sister Rose

In other words, Soviet spy Joan Stanley (Dench and Sophie Cookson as the young Joan), doesn’t get caught until she’s too old to go to prison. She lives out her years in comfort as an OAP (old age pensioner in the UK or senior citizen as we say in the US). But when the British government finally catches up with her and arrests her on 29 breaches of the Official Secrets Act, Joan turns to her astonished lawyer son, Nick,... Read more

2019-04-16T19:46:45-06:00

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‘The Curse of La Llorona’ gives horror films a bad name

Last updated on: April 16, 2019 at 7:46 pm By Sister Rose

This latest attempt at a spook-fest from the team behind Warner Bros.’ Conjuring-Annabellefranchise is meaningless drivel. All the elements of a horror film are there: the paranormal inserting itself into nature and creating chaos, social and community isolation, unexplained apparitions, loss of control, psychological and physical vulnerability, evil vs good. But the story lacks credibility even though based on an old Mexican legend meant to scare kids into good behavior. There is some relief but no real redemption, just a... Read more

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2019-04-16T17:41:54-06:00

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‘Breakthrough’ inspires with a BK rating (bring kleenex)

Last updated on: April 16, 2019 at 5:41 pm By Sister Rose

FILM REVIEW In April 2018 I had the honor of visiting the production set for the new film “Breakthrough” that will open nationwide tomorrow, April 17. There I met the real Joyce Smith, played by Chrissy Metz and her son John played by Marcel Ruiz. You can read more about the film and the story behind it in a feature article I wrote for the April 2019 issue of St. Anthony Messenger (see below.) The film is based on the... Read more

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