Francesca Cabrini was born 15 July 1850, in Sant’Angelo Lodigiano, youngest of 13 children in a well-off farming family. A pious child – the “little saint,” neighbours called her – she longed to be a missionary and played at sailing paper boats filled with violets representing the sisters she meant to send all over the world.

Viewers out for sweeping spectacle will likely come away from director Ridley Scott’s latest historical epic – Napoleon – satisfied. But those seeking insight into the conquering French emperor’s personality will find there’s a hollow ring to star Joaquin Phoenix’s portrayal of him.

Having worked in TV and movies for 20 years, accomplished songwriter and music producer Adam Anders knows that entertainment needs a love story, some lightness, and good actors and singers.

Swedish producer Adam Anders script, which he co-wrote with Peter Barsocchini, chronicles Mary (Fiona Palomo) and Joseph’s (Milo Manheim) effort to add personal commitment to their arranged betrothal.

In adapting Mexican American astronaut José Hernández’s memoir “Reaching for the Stars”, Director Alejandra Abella traces the remarkable journey from child migrant farm worker to NASA engineer and candidate for a place on the space shuttle.

In 2013, Tim Ballard and a team of former agents left the US Department of Homeland Security to form Operation Underground Railroad, a private foundation that assists international governments and US law enforcement in dismantling criminal trafficking organisations that target children.

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Unintended comedy paces the boredom-inducing banality of this follow-up to a 2018 feature about the accidental unleashing of an outsized prehistoric shark.

Just as its protagonist had his highs and lows, so Christopher Nolan’s three hour-long film Oppenheimer has its strong passages and weaker chapters.

In a hardscrabble neighbourhood of 1967 Dublin, best friends Lily (Maggie Smith) and Eileen (Kathy Bates) excitedly prepare to journey to the sacred destination in the company of a third pal, Dolly (Agnes O’Casey).

For Jim Caviezel, portraying Ballard – and replicating his dramatic real-life rescues of enslaved children – is a role second only to that of playing Jesus in The Passion of the Christ, with a similarly compelling mission.