Our Catholic movie reviews are created with the Catholic single in mind. Looking for a good movie to take someone out on a first date? Bringing a first date to a film that is poorly done, boring, or morally offensive makes for an awkward first date.
Our Hollywood insider gets ahead of the movies and offers his reviews. Each movie is declared as either dateworthy or not dateworthy.
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“Passengers”: It might have seemed like a clever idea at one point to have two of the hottest young stars in movies today, Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt, team up for what amounts to a combination of a space-age Adam and Eve story done up as a bad ripoff of the Sandra Bullock-George Clooney masterpiece […]
“Fences”: Intense adaptation of a classic stage play that follows an African-American man’s battle against his dying dreams in 1950s Pittsburgh. Powerful drama, but a downer. Definitely Dateworthy if you’re serious-minded. “Manchester by the Sea”: Casey Affleck gives the performance to beat for Best Actor Oscar in this slice-of-life movie that’s a half hour too […]
DATEWORTHY?: Are you kidding me? Everyone in the galaxy wants to see anything “Star Wars”! When George Lucas sold Lucasfilm to Disney in 2012 for $4 billion, there was a mix of trepidation and anticipation among the fans of the “Star Wars” film series. After all, the word was immediately out that Disney intended to […]
“OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTY”: Undeniably funny on a secular level, this movie is packed with enough raunchy content to merit extreme caution. If you can handle other R-rated comedies, feel free. If easily offended at all, don’t go. Dateworthy for a very limited spectrum of viewers. You should know who you are. “ARRIVAL”: This brainy sci-fi […]
“MOANA”: The latest Disney animation smash offers high adventure and fun laughs from the voiced character of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, but its mostly lackluster songs prevent it from being a classic. Still, DATEWORTHY. “THE EDGE OF SEVENTEEN”: This gem of a film about an outcast teenage girl dealing with true love, lust, the loss […]
DATEWORTHY: YES! While its plot is as overstuffed as a Thanksgiving dinner, there’s plenty of fun magic to be found here in a film that will entertain all ages. What’s a movie studio to do when it runs out of ideas in a film series that made $7.7 billion worldwide? Create a spin-off series that […]
A drifting, pointless plotline with undefined characters, further ruined by an annoying new style of filming technique. There have been breakthrough moments in the history of film technology, from the creation of talkies through the addition of color, and the coming, going and resurgence of 3D movie popularity. Add in Technicolor, 70 mm projection and […]
DOCTOR STRANGE: A time-bending, mind-tripping Marvel superhero tale that is endlessly fascinating to watch, it’s loads of fun if you keep its Eastern mystic aspects in perspective. YES. HACKSAW RIDGE: Mel Gibson’s comeback film after a decade in the Hollywood doghouse is one of the year’s best, mixing romance, heroism and pacifist ideals. Be warned […]
DATEWORTHY? YES. The third in the series of religious-themed thrillers starring Tom Hanks steers clear of the blasphemous territory of “DaVinci Code” to offer a fun and frantic thriller centering a painting inspired by Dante’s “Inferno” There are few films in the past decade or two that stirred up as much controversy among Catholics as […]
“Keeping Up with the Joneses”: Fun action-comedy with a few strong sexual innuendoes, but nothing an older teen or adult couple can’t handle. DATEWORTHY! “The Accountant”: One of the year’s best films, it features some strong violence but nothing too shocking, and about 40 swear words. Most people will love it. DATEWORTHY! “Jack Reacher: Never […]
