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March 2020

March 28, 2020

Something to Completely Blow Your Mind for a Saturday

Do you know what John Wayne's last film was? Wrong! It was Star Wars Episode...

February 2020

February 08, 2020

I love these Pitch Meeting thingies

Something fun for a Saturday morning:

February 07, 2020

In Honor of A Good Man: Deacon Steven Greydanus

So a couple of years ago, Deacon Steven Greydanus did one of his Reel Faith...

January 2020

January 25, 2020

VELOCIPASTOR!

So there is a film on Amazon Prime that... well... here: I, for one, cannot...

December 2019

December 07, 2019

What better day than Saturday for an appreciation of Looney Toons?

My pal, Deacon Steven Greydanus, writes an encomium to the sheer greatness of these cartoons...

November 2019

November 23, 2019

Mr. Rogers and Two Film Reviewers

It ought not to be necessary to defend the proposition that Fred Rogers was a...

October 2019

October 05, 2019

Since it’s Saturday, it’s a good day for studying the genius of Buster Keaton

Also, if you can find it (as I did at Kanopy.com) I highly recommend The...

August 2019

August 31, 2019

This could either be good or dreadful

Drama is about conflict and so my fear is that the screenwriter will invent a...

July 2019

July 12, 2019

So Don Johnson, the maker of Convinced wrote me

Convinced, in case you have not heard of it, is a film profiling a bunch...

July 06, 2019

My quick review of Rim of the World

Man, did Rim of the World suck. The basic elevator pitch premise is four kids...

April 2019

April 27, 2019

Avengers 1999!

The most astonishingly pitch-perfect mashup by a fan ever made.

April 26, 2019

Steven Greydanus on Avengers: Endgame

Steven and I have had a long-running gag "fight" going on about super-hero movies vs....

March 2019

March 23, 2019

A Lawyer Looks at Jurassic Park

What better way to add some penitential buzzkill to your Lent than to bring in...

November 2018

November 15, 2018

This is extremely cool!

This is extremely cool and is, in it's own way, a tribute both to Tolkien...

October 2018

October 27, 2018

Here’s a fun look at one of my fave films: Local Hero

Fans of Doctor Who will recognize a young Peter Capaldi. It's a charming film. If...

October 22, 2018

You have made us for yourself, O Lord…

...and our hearts are restless till they rest in you. - St. Augustine A brilliant...

July 2018

July 03, 2018

Deacon Steven Greydanus and I Talk about Summer Blockbusters Today

We also learn that Steve has given more thought to the issue of vampires than...

June 2018

June 03, 2018

Deacon Steve Greydanus and I talk about the Summer Blockbusters

May 2018

May 19, 2018

The Hobbit: A Long-Expected Autopsy

Jeffrey Overstreet points me to this fine dissection of why The Hobbit films sucked. I...

March 2018

March 22, 2018

Typically interesting take on The Shape of Water…

...by Bishop Robert Barron, who manages to work the thought of Paul Tillich in, which...

March 12, 2018

Bummer. Looks like “A Wrinkle in Time” is pretty bad

Deacon Steven Greydanus does the autopsy: One of the book’s most memorable bits — a...

January 2018

January 25, 2018

Bp. Robert Barron reports that Downsizing…

...is a surprisingly Christian film: Downsizing opens in a Norwegian lab where a group of scientists...

January 13, 2018

Talked with Deacon Steven Greydanus on Connecting the Dots

...about the Golden Globes, #metoo, Oprah, structures of sin, The Last Jedi, War of the...

October 2017

October 10, 2017

The New Star Wars Trailer Looks Promising

October 04, 2017

Bishop Robert Barron on Mother!

It sounds frustratingly terrible: If the first part of the story allegorizes the Old Testament,...

September 2017

September 02, 2017

Damon Lindelof’s Love Letter to “a Perfect Movie”

Raiders of the Lost Ark I concur completely. Raiders is the quintessential popcorn movie. It's...

August 2017

August 30, 2017

Interested in Helping Fund a Film Project?

Reader Dave LeRoss writes: I'm part of a massive team of Catholic filmmakers who are...

June 2017

June 01, 2017

Steven Spielberg is bringing back the Animaniacs

Let joy be unconfined!

May 2017

May 12, 2017

If you are interested in faith and film, check this out

Go here to enter.

May 12, 2017

One of the great (accidentally) prolife movies now has a sequel

Looking forward to it.

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