Catholic Film Reviews

After wasting an hour or two too many several years ago on the much-ado-about-patent-nonsense controversy surrounding Dan Brown’s laughable blockbuster, The DaVinci Code, I have of late been sedulously avoiding all references to “Dan Brown”, “Angels and Demons”, “Ron Howard”, or “Tom Hanks”. But when I stumbled across Ross Douthat’s spade-calling op ed piece [...]

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Directed by Julian Jarrold
Starring Matthew Goode, Emma Thompson, Ben Whishaw, and Michael Gambon
So…Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh is one of the twentieth century’s classic novels. It’s not especially long. A week or so should do the trick. Don’t have the time? Well, there was a superlative miniseries adaptation of the novel produced by Granada in [...]

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I don’t know about John, but in spite of my love of mythopoeic literature, I have thus far acquired no interest in seeing this “controversial” movie or reading the Pullman books on which it is base. Other, perhaps, than to discover if the author & moviemakers can somehow manage, unlike their other anti-Catholic storymongering brethren, [...]

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reviewed by Kevin Murphy
“Shocking.” “Scary.” “The first horror documentary.”
Liberal voices have liberally applied hyperboles to Jesus Camp, the 2006 film documenting an evangelical Christian youth camp. Earlier this year it earned an Academy Award nomination—one of a handful of other “incredibly depressing” films, as Jerry Seinfeld quipped at the awards ceremony.
It should come as [...]

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How Dull the Con of Ron…
I haven’t read The Da Vinci Code. Since about a trillion people have, I suppose I should feel out of the loop. Having just seen the movie, though, I think I’ll stick with Umberto Eco. Enduring Ron Howard’s dull and ponderous adaptation gave me the feeling [...]

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