Catholic Film Reviews

Twilight begs the question, why do girls always go for vampires? Is it the Byronic good looks? Or perhaps because they’re given to lines like, “You don’t know how long I’ve waited for you,” and “You’re my own personal brand of heroin.” Bella, a junior in high school recently relocated from Arizona to perpetually rain-washed Washington, [...]

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The First Noel
The Nativity Story begins with the melancholy strains of “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel” and proceeds quickly to the Massacre of the Innocents. Not exactly the Hallmark version of Christmas one might have expected. Catherine Hardwicke, director of the hard-hitting teen drama, Thirteen, immediately establishes a tone of tasteful realism in the opening [...]

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