Articles by Nick Olszyk

MPAA Rating, PG USCCB Rating, A-III Reel Rating: (5 Reels out of 5) Warning: Some spoilers ahead! God’s Not Dead is my choice for best film of 2014. Yes, it’s only April and there’s still […]

MPAA Rating: PG-13 USCCB Rating: A-III Reel Rating: (4 Reels out of 5) “Who cares about art?” Lt. Frank Stokes (George Clooney) wonders reflexively as he tries to convince Franklin Roosevelt to let him take a team […]

MPAA Rating, PG-13 USCCB Rating, A-III Reel Rating: (4 Reels out of 5) Note: Spoilers Alert! In the 1938 classic Boys Town, Fr. Flanagan famously said, “there is no such thing as a bad boy.” He […]

MPAA Rating, R USCCB Rating, O (morally offensive) Reel Rating,     Walking through an art gallery, con man Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale) points out a Rembrandt painting to FBI agent Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper) and […]

A truly great movie does two things: entertains and uplifts. It must be a fantastic work of craftsmanship in order to properly demonstrate important spiritual truths. The legendary Catholic director Frank Capra said of filmmaking […]

MPAA Rating, PG-13 USCCB Rating, A-II Reel Rating: (3 Reels out of 5) There are two wars being waged in Saving Mr. Banks. First, an external battle between the impeccably proper and British Mrs. P. […]

MPAA Rating, R USCCB Rating, NA Reel Rating: (4 Reels out of 5) Oppression and unjust suffering are universal experiences of the world of sin that represents this fallen age, but it is a universal […]

MPAA Rating, PG-13 USCCB Rating, A-III Reel Rating,                 Alfred Hitchcock said that movies “are just normal life with all the boring parts taken out.” Paul Greengrass, director of the newly released […]