Culture

‘When the Game Stands Tall’ gives reason to cheer

Catholic movie goers in particular will appreciate this likeable, fact-based sports drama that promotes humility, teamwork, good sportsmanship and, in passing, premarital chastity.

Movie review: ‘The Giver’

Hollywood continues to makes the future a dangerous and challenging place to be a teenager.

Movie review: The Expendables 3

There are many ways to keep yourself entertained while watching "The Expendables 3" (Lionsgate).

Daylesford Abbey plans Catholic music festival for new evangelization

The Norbertine Community in Paoli is expecting a crowd of 1,500 people for a Sept. 20 Catholic music festival organized as "a response to the repeated call of the Catholic Church for a new evangelization."

‘Let’s Be Cops’: One of those bad ideas from the start

This weak comedy and buddy movie combines a far-fetched premise, an obscenity-laden script and ill-advised forays into gross-out as well as kinky humor while only implicitly honoring police work.

Video game review: Tomodachi Life: Better Than the Real Thing?

"Tomodachi Life," a new title for the Nintendo hand-held consoles 2DS and 3DS, is exactly what it claims to be: a game about life.

Sword-wielding turtles are still kinda fun

The wise-cracking, pizza-loving "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" re-emerge from the sewers of New York City to save the world in this vivid 3-D film, with the turtles effectively rendered through live action and motion-capture technology -- along with a good script.

Movie review: The Hundred-Foot Journey

Like an airy souffle, director Lasse Hallstrom's food-themed romantic fantasy "The Hundred-Foot Journey" (Disney) has an elegant appearance and a charming taste, but not much substance.

Movie review: Calvary

Set in rural Ireland, the bleak but powerful seriocomedy "Calvary" (Fox Searchlight) kicks off with a startling premise.

Movie review: Get On Up

"Get On Up" (Universal) is director Tate Taylor's musically compelling yet morally troubling portrait of the "godfather of soul," singer James Brown (1933-2006).