Movie News
There is a moment during the Zack Snyder film Man of Steel where we witness a convergence of two of the most recognized icons in the western world: the cross and the “S” on Superman’s chest.
There is no escaping moral judgment
By Fr. Robert Barron, Catholic Register SpecialThe appearance of yet another film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby provides the occasion for reflecting on what many consider the great American novel.
Dallaire a voice for the children
By Ruane Remy, The Catholic RegisterCanadian Senator Roméo Dallaire asks Anzoyo Tsukia, “Is Joseph Kony the devil incarnate?” A rosary hanging from her neck, she replies that Kony looks normal but everything he does is diabolical.
Still life in old bones
By Ruane Remy, The Catholic RegisterAfter more than six decades of marriage, love looks like Craig Morrison caring for his ailing wife Irene in Michael McGowan’s Still Mine. But this isn’t your typical sob story about aging.
42 inspires
By John Mulderig, Catholic News ServiceTo paraphrase the title of an earlier movie about the national pastime, hate strikes out in the historical drama 42 (Warner Bros.) Writer-director Brian Helgeland's uplifting — if sometimes heavy-handed — film recounts the 1947 reintegration of professional baseball after decades of segregated play.
Canadians aid Caritas Niger in turning A New Leaf for the fight against severe drought
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterThere was severe hardship but no famine in West Africa last year. Crops failed, locusts and other insects consumed farmers’ fields and at least 18 million people suffered through a food shortage.
Video brings awful memories flooding back
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterSalvadorans remember Romero like it was yesterday
Les Misérables show how love overpowers death
By Fr. Robert Barron, Catholic Register SpecialOn Christmas day a film adaptation of Victor Hugo’s book Les Miserables made its debut in theatres. Though Hugo had a less than perfectly benign view of the Catholic Church, his masterpiece is, from beginning to end, conditioned by a profoundly Christian worldview. It is most important that, amidst all of the “Les Miz” hoopla, the spiritual heart of Hugo’s narrative not be lost.
Year of Faith cinema
By John P. McCarthy, Catholic News ServiceIn Porta Fidei (The Door of Faith), an apostolic letter announcing the Year of Faith, Pope Benedict XVI urges us to study the history of Catholicism, which he describes as “marked by the unfathomable mystery of the interweaving of holiness and sin.”
The Hobbit and its Gospel ethics
By Fr. Robert Barron, Catholic Register SpecialLike Star Wars, The Divine Comedy and Moby Dick, J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit is the story of a hero’s journey. This helps to explain, of course, why, like those other narratives, it has proved so perennially compelling.
Zero Dark Thirty
By John Mulderig, Catholic News ServiceZero Dark Thirty (Columbia) offers moviegoers a challenging account, based on real events, of the decade-long hunt for terrorist leader Osama bin Laden.