Ghost of Tsushima
NEW YORK (CNS) -- Adhering to a code of honor doesn't necessarily mean doing the right thing, a distinction that's crucial to "Ghost of Tsushima" (Sony Interactive). This bloody action-adventure game thrusts players onto the [...]
The Grizzlies
NEW YORK (CNS) -- Director Miranda de Pencier's drama "The Grizzlies" (Northwood Entertainment) tells the inspiring true story of a town that suffered the highest suicide rate in North America but found hope through the [...]
The Rental
NEW YORK (CNS) -- Those chafing under the travel restrictions imposed by the current pandemic may take comfort from "The Rental" (IFC), the story of an oceanside getaway gone fatally wrong. Those in search of [...]
Radioactive
NEW YORK (CNS) -- The key to any good film biography of a scientist is found in the montages that show the discovery or invention that gained the subject fame. On that score, "Radioactive" (Amazon), [...]
Yes, God, Yes
NEW YORK (CNS) -- Sex is more fun than being Catholic. That's the basic message of writer-director Karen Maine's semi-autobiographical drama "Yes, God, Yes" (Vertical). Having promoted the physical death of the innocent by helping [...]
Palm Springs
NEW YORK (CNS) -- There's an adolescent quality to the nihilism that underlies director Max Barbakow's feature debut, the romantic comedy "Palm Springs" (Neon/Hulu). Its frivolous and degraded view of matters sexual is equally immature. [...]
Update: Flannery
NEW YORK (CNS) -- Despite a tragically brief and illness-plagued career, Catholic author Flannery O'Connor, who died in 1964 aged just 39, is recognized as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century, [...]
Ghost in the Shell
NEW YORK (CNS) -- "Ghost in the Shell" (Paramount), director Rupert Sanders' murky, boring adaptation of a series of comics by Masamune Shirow, offers little beyond glitzy futuristic cityscapes. This live-action version of Shirow's sci-fi-themed [...]