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Help us expand our reach! Please share this article NEW YORK (CNS) -- Though it's adapted from a book that's over a decade old, "Monster" (Netflix), director Anthony Mandler's screen version of Walter Dean Myers' 1999 novel for young adults, feels remarkably timely. This tale of a Harlem youth caught up in the criminal justice system gains credibility, moreover, by avoiding pat answers. While uneven, Mandler's drama ultimately proves affecting. Kelvin Harrison Jr. plays 17-year-old aspiring filmmaker Steve Harmon. With his happy home life -- Jennifer Hudson and Jeffrey Wright play his caring ...

‘Monster’ doesn’t settle for easy answers to complex issue Kevin Harrison Jr. stars in a scene from the movie “Monster.” The Catholic News Service classification is A-III — adults. The Motion Picture Association rating is R — restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. (CNS photo/Netflix) By John Mulderig • Catholic News Service • Posted May 14, 2021 NEW YORK (CNS) — Though it’s adapted from a book that’s over a decade old, “Monster” (Netflix), director Anthony Mandler’s screen version of Walter Dean Myers’ 1999 novel for young adults...

E arlier this year, Netflix released a star-studded promotional campaign gloating about its upcoming release schedule: The streaming giant would be dropping at least one new feature film every week for the rest of 2021. Take that, movie theaters! That's all well and good, but Netflix has become almost notorious for its quantity-over-quality release practices. Save for a handful of Oscar-winning prestige projects, the Netflix library is starting to resemble one of those bargain DVD bins you might find in the back corner of a 7-11. For every Roma or Cloverfield Paradoxes or unwatc...

Today's installment of Throwback Thursday takes us to the northwest corner of West Second Avenue and North Washington streets. In 1920, Albert Kirk, who owned the Hutchinson Motor Car Co. built a three-story building but leased it to James Davis and Louie Child to open the Davis-Child Ford dealership.  Davis-Child moved out in 1931 and became a Chevy dealership. That's when Kirk moved his Hutchinson Motor Car Co. here to sell Hudsons. In 1935, employees sold some Hudson Terraplanes with the electric hand shifter. This sales gimmick was really an assisted manual transmission. The driver sti...

Lindsey Bahr, AP Film Writer "Monster," a courtroom drama starring Kelvin Harrison Jr., Jeffrey Wright, Jennifer Hudson and Jennifer Ehle that's premiering Friday on Netflix isn't actually new at all.  Yes, it's adapted from an acclaimed book by the trailblazing author Walter Dean Myers about a Black teen who is in prison for the possible murder of a Harlem drugstore owner. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January of 2018 and has been sitting on various shelves since. It was acquired by one company, re-titled and planned for a fall 2019 release. But that didn't pan out and then ...