The Wretched
NEW YORK (CNS) -- What's a red-blooded American lad to do when a witch who preys on little children moves in next door? For the answer, grown movie fans can consult "The Wretched" (IFC Midnight). [...]
True History of the Kelly Gang
NEW YORK (CNS) -- While the real-life legacy of Australia's famous 19th-century outlaw Ned Kelly may be disputed, the cinematic appeal of his career can hardly be doubted. When it premiered in 1906, "The Story [...]
Selah and the Spades
NEW YORK (CNS) -- "The Godfather" comes to the groves of academe in the curious psychological drama "Selah and the Spades" (Amazon). In her feature debut, writer-director Tayarisha Poe turns an elite private high school [...]
We Summon the Darkness
NEW YORK (CNS) -- "We Summon the Darkness" (Saban, streaming on Amazon Prime) bills itself as a low-budget Satan-worship-themed slasher film with a bit of an homage to 1980s horror movies thrown into the mix. [...]
Trolls World Tour
NEW YORK (CNS) -- With its psychedelic palette, upbeat energy and fun interludes of song, director Walt Dohrn's animated musical sequel "Trolls World Tour" (Universal) is a delightful diversion, one especially well calculated to reduce [...]
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
NEW YORK (CNS) -- Misguided values permeate writer-director Eliza Hittman's desolate abortion-themed drama "Never Rarely Sometimes Always" (Focus). In fact, the film's basic message is that it ought to be easier for its protagonist to [...]
Slay the Dragon
NEW YORK (CNS) -- Gerrymandering, the drawing of district lines with the aim of gaining electoral advantage, has long been an element of American political life. In fact, the man from whose name the term [...]
Corpus Christi
NEW YORK (CNS) -- Polish films on Catholic themes run the gamut of taste. On one side is 2013's exquisite "Ida" in which the novice nun of the title (Agata Trzebuchowska) learns that, although raised [...]
Update: I Am Patrick
NEW YORK (CNS) -- The reasons the church continues to honor the Apostle of Ireland more than 1,500 years after his death shine forth in the film "I Am Patrick" (CBN), a docudrama that will [...]
I Still Believe
NEW YORK (CNS) -- In keeping with the song and book from which it takes its title, nondenominational affirmations of faith permeate the fact-based romantic drama "I Still Believe" (Lionsgate), making the film congenial fare [...]