Film adaptations of storyteller Roald Dahl’s work have always been rather hit or miss; his quirky sense of humor, fanciful stories, and typically one-dimensional characters are difficult to translate effectively to the screen. Moreover, Dahl’s […]
Author and apologist Stephen Ray (CatholicConvert.com) along with his wife Janet, entered the Catholic Church in 1994, a journey from the Baptist tradition to Catholicism described in Ray’s first book, Crossing the Tiber: Evangelical Protestants […]
The Innocents, a new Franco-Polish–Belgian production, comes to the screens this weekend. It is a film about a Polish Benedictine monastery at the end of the Second World War. It is fiction but is based […]
MPAA Rating, G USCCB Rating, A-I Reel Rating, (3 out of 5 reels) Finding Nemo, which at one time was the highest-grossing animated movie ever, marked the beginning of a seven-year […]
MPAA Rating: R USCCB Rating:A-III Reel Rating: (3 out of 5 reels) It’s unfortunate that there has never been a truly great exorcist movie (for the record, I consider The Exorcist to be a good, […]
From the beginning of time, the Father of Lies has striven to twist goodness to his own purposes. To him, there is nothing sacrosanct—as one can see in the Gospels, he uses even Sacred Scripture […]
Next month, the Catholic world’s eyes will for one week focus on Poland, as millions of pilgrims will celebrate World Youth Day with Pope Francis. This is the perfect time to get to know the […]
MPAA Rating: PG-13 USCCB Rating: A-III Reel Rating: (2 out of 5 reels) The latest venture in the X-Men franchise tempts fate with the subtitle Apocalypse—and loses. While the stakes are incredibly high, the film itself is terribly underwhelming. It’s not […]
The strange and mysterious history of the classic silent film about the Maid of Orleans. […]
With his latest film, Last Days in the Desert, Rodrigo Garcia has accomplished something truly remarkable. He has taken a portion of the life of the single most compelling person who has ever lived and turned it […]
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