When this year began, I was skeptical. In addition to way too many sequels, the first film I reviewed was Fifty Shades of Grey. Ugh. To my utter joy, this slow start turned into a […]
MPAA Rating: PG-13 USCCB Rating: A-II Reel Rating: (4 out of 5 reels) The Force Awakens may be the most anticipated film of the Millennial generation as proven by the insane number of internet plot […]
Given that for even the best-educated music-lovers so much valuable Christmas repertoire slumbers largely undisturbed by any hint of modern revivals, it is hardly surprising that most Advent repertoire tends to be even less known. […]
MPAA Rating: PG-13 USCCB Rating: A-II Reel Rating: The Hunger Games film series, based on the best-selling young adult novels (2008-10) by Suzanne Collins, began in 2012 as fairly standard dystopian fantasy, admittedly grim but […]
With the opening of Mockingjay Part 2 on November 19, the cinematic telling of the story of Katniss Everdeen comes to a close. The Hunger Games series has been wildly popular, and many consider Katniss […]
My great mentor Msgr. Robert Sokolowski told a class of eager philosophy students many years ago that we should read Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics every year of our lives. As we grew older, he explained, new […]
It’s hard to say what exactly happened here. When the Bond reboot of the Daniel Craig era began with Casino Royale there was a sense that while all the trappings of the cinema icon were […]
Spectre, the latest installment in Daniel Craig’s incarnation of the James Bond character, opens with an eerie sentence spread across the screen: “The dead are alive.” The camera then plunges into an elongated opening shot […]
MPAA Rating: PG USCCB Rating: A-II Reel Rating: Early in Genndy Tartakovsky’s Hotel Transylvania 2, Wayne the werewolf’s four dozen children are running through Count Dracula’s luxury resort destroying everything in their path. When confronted, […]
Ridley Scott’s The Martian is a splendidly told tale of survival and pluck, reminiscent of the novel Robinson Crusoe and the films Life of Pi and Castaway. In this case, the hero is Mark Watney, […]
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