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Movie News

Ralph Fiennes as Cardinal Lawrence and Stanley Tucci star in a scene from the movie Conclave.

Conclave ‘makes a mockery of our faith’

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A serious, even lugubrious, tone and a top-flight cast add heft to the ecclesiastical melodrama Conclave (Focus). Yet the film is fundamentally a power-struggle potboiler kept roiling by attention-grabbing plot developments — the last and most significant of which Catholic viewers will likely find uncomfortable at best, and which has already drawn the ire of some.

Orlando Schwerdt (Julien) and Ariella Glaser (Sarah) in a scene from 'White Bird'.

A timeless message for our time

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A new coming-of-age film set in Second World War France is reviving timeless messages of kindness and bravery, ones that are always in vogue, especially in today's troubled world.

Cristiana Dell’Anna stars in a scene from the movie Cabrini.

Film an injustice to Mother Cabrini’s mission

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Cabrini, the latest movie from the team that produced Bella (2006) and Sound of Freedom (2023), opened on March 8 in cinemas across North America.

D&P harnesses film to spread social justice

D&P harnesses film to spread social justice

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The Diocese of Hamilton and Development and Peace - Caritas Canada are harnessing the power of film to educate people on social issues across the globe in a casual yet engaging way. 

Hilary Swank as hairdresser Sharon Stevens in 'Ordinary Angels'.

Can 'Ordinary Angels' kickstart film industry?

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The North American box office is off to a feeble start in 2024. January produced a total haul of $513.6 million. According to the media measurement and analytics company Comscore, this marks the worst performance for the first month of the year, outside of the COVID years, since 1999.

Jim Caviezel stars in a scene from the movie “Sound of Freedom.” Caviezel and producer Eduardo Verástegui share how faith prepared them for their new film.

Caviezel: 'Sound of Freedom' a 'weapon of mass instruction' to end child trafficking

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A new film starring Jim Caviezel aims to move millions to end the scourge of child trafficking.

Shia LaBeouf stars in the new drama Padre Pio, which premiered at last year’s Venice Film Festival and will be released in theatres and on demand June 2. Directed by Abel Ferrara the film traces the saint’s life from just after the First World War.

For new role, Shia LeBeouf ‘fell in love with Christ’

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Actor Shia LaBeouf portrays St. Pio of Pietrelcina in the new drama Padre Pio, which premiered at last year’s Venice Film Festival and will be released in U.S. theaters and on demand June 2.

Jonathan Roumie and Kelsey Grammer star in a scene from the movie Jesus Revolution. What the film lacks in theological soundness it makes up for by refraining from Hollywood’s usual “objectionable ingredients” when dealing with faith.

While theologically lacking, Jesus Revolution still groovy

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The Woodstock generation gets religion in the warmhearted fact-based drama Jesus Revolution (Lionsgate). Refreshingly free of the usual objectionable ingredients, this generally appealing Evangelically-flavoured look back at a somewhat surprising chapter in Baby Boomer history is doctrinally dodgy but ethically uplifting.

Above, a scene from Mary’s Way of the Cross, a film by Winnipeg’s Bisong Taiwo.

Film relives Mary’s journey with the Cross

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Kevin Dunn, left, interviews Bishop Scott McCaig of the Military Ordinariate of Canada for his film Permission: Fr. Bob Bedard’s Vision for the Church.

Fr. Bedard champion of, for, the Church

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Fr. Robert “Bob” Bedard (1929-2011), a beloved advocate of the Canadian and global Catholic communities, is the subject of an upcoming documentary-drama from award-winning Catholic filmmaker Kevin Dunn.

Mother Teresa presents documents for a new house to a villager in 1994 in Mumbai. A new film on the sainted Mother Teresa will play at select theatres Nov. 2-3.

New film explores Mother Teresa's legacy of caring

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The future of the Missionaries of Charity, Mother Teresa’s Sisters, is more of the same — more hope, more love, more care and compassion launched into the gaping wound of destitution, despair and neglect visible in every city in the world. 

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