Catholic Film Reviews is a project of Idylls Press, founded by Debra Murphy in 2004 with the mission of “publishing the Catholic imagination.” (Mainly it’s an excuse for the members o Clan Murphy, movie fanatics all, to wax lyrical on one of their favorite subjects.
Our Reviewers: (If you’d like to join their number, please use the form at the bottom of the page to contact us.)
Debra Murphy. Debra’s mystery-thriller, The Mystery of Things, was published in December 2004 by Idylls Press, which she founded in 2004. Her current project is a genre mystery set in an Ashland, Oregon bed-and-breakfast.
For more about Debra, visit her homepage.
Rachel Murphy. Rachel is the oldest of the Murphy kids and a gifted seamstress of custom-made Irish dance dresses. (See her business website, Silverlode Needlecraft, to see why her dresses have been described by her customers as “wearable works of art.”) Rachel is also beginning to make liturgical vestments and hopes to branch out in the areas of Irish dance doll dressmaking and textile art, especially the crafting of wall hangings using the applique and stitching techniques she’s learned in making Irish dance dresses. Rachel is an avid “reader” of audiobooks while she’s working at the sewing machine, and in that capacity has become a frequent reviewer, especially of audiobooks, for catholicfiction.net.
John Murphy. John graduated magna cum laude from the University of 
Oregon’s Clark Honors College with a B.A. in Art History. He has taught Art History at Western Oregon University and currently works as Idylls Press’ in-house cover designer and illustrator. (Go here to see examples of John’s work.) John also loves to sketch caricatures of famous writers and musicians, and art prints of some of his work are for sale on his website, at Idylls Press, and on clothing and gift items at the Idylls Press Cafepress store. Along more literary lines, John is a frequent contributor of film and book reviews for Godspy, bardolatry, catholicfilmreviews, and catholicfiction.net.
