At some point in their Christmas shopping this
year, parents will be greeted with a wall of video and computer games bearing
titles that look, to their eyes, like “Deathgore Killer 4: The Bloodening.”
Families
with kids — and even adults — who play games ask themselves before they... READ MORE
New on DVD,
the debate documentary Collision: Christopher Hitchens
vs. Douglas Wilson follows the self-proclaimed anti-theist
polemicist Hitchens and the Reformed pastor Wilson as they meet in formal and
informal debate promoting their jointly authored book Is
Christianity Good for the World?... READ MORE
CATHOLICTV This varied
slate of shows for little ones includes cartoon stories of the Bible and of
Catholic saints and heroes, as well as programs about our Catholic faith.
SUNDAY,
8 p.m.
Extreme Makeover:
Home Edition
ABC The crew, builders
and volunteers... READ MORE
What do you do after you make the acclaimed vocations film about the priesthood, Fishers of Men, and follow it up with God in the Streets of New York, a documentary following a Eucharistic procession in Manhattan?
If you’re the folks at Grassroots Films in Brooklyn, N.Y., you tackle a... READ MORE
When it comes to musical talents, the Hanson
family has been blessed with quite a few. For close to 10 years, the Elmira,
Ore., family of seven children has entertained audiences with their angelic harmonies,
cowboy yodeling and good old-fashioned tunes from the great American songbook.... READ MORE
This week,
two perennial Christmas classics come to Blu-ray — one a Vatican list film, the
other a celebrated tale of redemption. (Even if you don’t have Blu-ray, keep
reading: One new set comes with standard DVD,... READ MORE
COMMUNITY CHANNELS Each
week this cable program, begun in 1994, offers an eight-hour slate of
five-minute-or-less video clips. Many are from early TV, with performances in
the classic arts such as ballet, chamber and choral music, dance, opera,
orchestral works,... READ MORE
It’s not that Father Robert Reed, a Boston Archdiocese priest, is a MTV groupie. After all, as a television network director and TV show host himself, he already has a favorite station — Boston-based, nationally broadcast CatholicTV.
But when Father Reed began looking for a way to promote... READ MORE
Where the Wild Things Are Is a Grown-Up Childhood Fantasy
October 25-31, 2009 Issue
Maurice
Sendak’s poetic, luxuriantly illustrated Where the Wild Things Are
is revered as a childhood classic, but I think it speaks more powerfully to
grown-ups than to children, or at least children of the age for picture books.
I’ve met grown-ups who don’t like
it, but I suspect they... READ MORE
ABC The crew and
volunteers build a new home for Nathan and Jenny Montgomery and their four
children in Philo, Ill. Nathan gave up a career in engineering to found the
Salt & Light Food Pantry in nearby Champaign and now helps feed 250
families a week.... READ MORE
New from Film
Movement, Munyurangabo is a revelation in many senses:
a vision of an unknown Rwanda unlike that of previous films; a surprising... READ MORE
For jazz artist Deanna Witkowski, music is a form
of prayer. Not only does the 37-year-old composer, pianist and singer sometimes
go to her piano to pray, but she has written music for two Masses as part of a
collection of works called “sacred jazz.”
EWTN “Jesus wants you
to make me known and loved,” Mary told Lucia, Jacinta and Francisco in 1917. “My
Immaculate Heart will be your refuge and the way leading you to God.” This
World Apostolate of Fatima... READ MORE
Maybe it could go without saying, but it’s the
biggest film of the year, so let’s be clear: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, new this week on... READ MORE
EWTN “Do not feel sorry for me,” wrote Father Damien
de Veuster (1840-1889), of the Sacred Hearts Fathers, about the Hansen’s
disease (leprosy) he contracted at his mission on Molokai. Pope Benedict XVI
will canonize him today, along with French Sister Mary... READ MORE
The
edifying, at times wrenching, story of Damien de Veuster is vividly brought to
life in Molokai: The Story of Father
Damien, based on Hilde Eynikel’s
biography of the 19th-century “Apostle to the Lepers,” who for 15 years lived
and finally died... READ MORE
The 13th Day Is the Finest Retelling of the Fátima Miracle
October 11-17, 2009 Issue
The
13th Day is the best movie ever made about Fátima — the most
beautiful and effective, as well as one of the most historically accurate.
Distilled to the bare essence of the
events, mediated through evocative visuals and mood rather than character-based
drama, The 13th Day has a clarity and... READ MORE
Inaugurating the new Disney “Diamond Edition”
series, the great classic Snow White
and the Seven Dwarfs returns this
week in a two-disc Blu-ray edition with standard DVD included. (The previous
edition from 2001 is out of print.)
The
first animated feature-length film in Hollywood history, Snow... READ MORE
CATHOLICTV In each
show, Archdiocese of Boston’s Father Robert Reed asks third-graders three
rounds of questions about the faith, and the winners vie for a grand prize.
This week’s topic is “The Three Theological Virtues” — faith, hope and... READ MORE
