Catholic Film Reviews

reviewed by John Murphy
Norman Mailer’s The Castle in the Forest was a novel about Hitler narrated by a demon, who writes: “Most well-educated people are ready to bridle at the notion of such an entity as the Devil…There need be no surprise, then, that the world has an impoverished understanding of Adolf Hitler’s personality.” I was [...]

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Directed by Edward Zwick
Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Hounsou, and Jennifer Connelly

This is Africa

Blood Diamond is stirring, old-fashioned filmmaking. It tells a worthy story on an epic scale, crammed with mega movie stars, majestic scenery, memorable characters, and capitol “T” Themes.
For a movie that wears its social conscience on its sleeve, Blood Diamond never neglects little [...]

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reviewed by Kevin Murphy
It is the middle of World War II. The Germans are challenged on the Eastern front, where their soldiers are freezing to death. To the West, America has just entered the war. To add to the Germans’ difficulties is the so-called “Jewish Question”: what to do with the five million Jews they [...]

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