NEW YORK (CNS) The following are capsule reviews of theatrical movies on network and cable television the week of June 19. Please note that televised versions may or may not be edited for language, nudity, violence, and sexual situations.
Tuesday, June 21, 8-10 p.m. EDT (TCM) Ivanhoe (1952). The age of chivalry comes to life in this version of Sir Walter Scott s novel about 12th-century England where Saxon knight Ivanhoe (Robert Taylor) battles a host of Norman nobles, wins the hand of his
Colin Farrell stars in a scene from the movie Voyagers. The Catholic News Service classification is A-III adults. The Motion Picture Association rating is PG-13 parents strongly cautioned. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13. (CNS photo/Vlad Cioplea, Lionsgate)
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NEW YORK (CNS) The tedious sci-fi parable Voyagers (Lionsgate) seems designed to prove that in space, no one can hear you yawn.
While acceptable for grown-ups, writer-director Neil Burger s flat thriller, an exploration of the positive and negative aspects of human nature, has little to say on that topic that hasn t been better expressed before.
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Writer-director Neil Burger (The Illusionist, The Lucky Ones) helms this sci-fi adventure about a mission to reach a habitable planet 86 years away from Earth by spacecraft. Crewed by 30 young people, all conceived in a lab and raised in seclusion to mirror the lonely isolation of a multi-generational space journey with the idea that their grandchildren will fulfill the mission, they descend into paranoia and distrust 10 years into their voyage. Can they pull back from the brink of madness and save their species? (108 min.) click to enlarge Photo Courtesy Of Agc Studios And Fibonacci Films
MADNESS Zac (Fionn Whitehead, center), one of 30 crew members on an 86-year-long space voyage, goes power mad, splitting the crew into warring tribes, in