Movies

NEW YORK -- The following are capsule reviews of movies recently reviewed by Catholic News Service.

'Django Unchained'

NEW YORK -- The following are capsule reviews of movies by Catholic News Service.

'2016: Obama's America'

NEW YORK -- The following are capsule summaries of movies recently reviewed by Catholic News Service.

'The Bourne Legacy'

NEW YORK -- Though presumably targeted -- at least in part -- at teens, the dystopian adventure "The Hunger Games" involves enough problematic content to give parents pause. Responsible oldsters will want to weigh the matter carefully before giving permission for clamoring kids to attend.

At first glance, the depressing futuristic premise of the piece -- inherited from Suzanne Collins' best-selling trilogy of novels, on the first volume of which the film is based -- makes it seem unlikely fare for a youthful audience.

When Jon Erwin first heard the term "abortion survivor" he was shocked.

"I didn't know those two words ever went together," said Erwin, a writer-director-producer who has been working behind the cameras with his brother Andrew since high school."I heard Gianna Jessen speak. She's an abortion survivor. I never knew there were any."

This is the second part of a two-part story on the top films of 2011.

Writer-director Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris," asks the question: Would you be happier living in a long-ago, mythically remembered past? A frustrated Hollywood screenwriter and would-be novelist (Owen Wilson) gets to find out when he gains mysterious entree to the French capital of the 1920s (Adults, PG-13).