Another year has come and gone in the history of cinema, now approaching its 130th anniversary. This was a great year for movies, perhaps the best since the lockdowns of 2020. Here are my picks […]
MPAA Rating: R Reel Rating: 3 out of 5 reels F. W. Murnau’s Nosferatu (1922) is one of the first great horror films ever made, even though it was a brazen rip-off of Bram Stoker’s […]
FCC Rating: TV-14 USCCB Rating: Not rated at the time of this review Reel Rating: 1/2 reel out of 5 reels When I first heard that famed televangelist Joel Osteen was making a movie about the Mother of God, […]
MPAA Rating: PG Reel Rating: 3 out of 5 reels Christmas pageants were originally created by St. Francis of Assisi in the 13th century because the Ayyubid caliphate had blocked pilgrims’ access to the Holy Land. […]
MPAA Rating: PG-13 Reel Rating: 4 out of 5 reels Forgiveness is the central to Christianity, in both word and deed. To forgive is also one of the hardest things to do, especially when the […]
Reel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Despite the common anti-Catholic sentiment in American society, the early 20th century was a cinematic goldmine of Church representation, including Going My Way, The Song of Bernadette, and […]
MPAA Rating: PG Reel Rating: 2 out of 5 reels God’s Not Dead, which I think is one of cinema’s modern masterpieces, is the 15th most profitable movie ever made. Although this accomplishment remains untainted, […]
MPAA Rating: PG Reel Rating: 4 out of 5 reels The Forge is the ninth film by the Alex Kendrick, who by this point has cemented himself of one of the prominent Christian filmmakers of the […]
MPAA Rating: PG USCCB Rating: Not rated at the time of this review Reel Rating: 4 out of 5 reels It’s fair to say that penguins are overrepresented in the cinematic animal universe. In 2005, March […]
MPAA Rating: R USCCB Rating: Not rated at the time of this review Reel Rating: 4 out of 5 reels Visiting the imprisoned is probably the most ignored of the corporal works of mercy. But […]
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