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Brideshead Deconstructed
BY Steven D. Greydanus Whither Waugh’s Catholic Grace?
August 17-23, 2008 Issue 
With its blend of wistful nostalgia for and biting satire of bygone English nobility,
Evelyn Waugh’s magnum opus, Brideshead Revisited, is among the most celebrated
English novels — more despite, than because of, its preoccupation with the
Catholic faith, for which it also ranks among the most... READ MORE
DVD Picks & Passes 08.10.2008
BY Steven D. Greydanus
August 10-16, 2008 Issue
A History of Britain
(2000)- Pick
Witness (1985)- Pick
Recently
released in a new DVD edition, A History
of Britain is a sprawling, engrossing tour of British history in the
best tradition of the BBC and the History Channel, with celebrated historian
Simon Schama as tour guide.
With 15... READ MORE
From Cinema to Sofa
BY Thomas L. McDonald Gamers Don’t Just Watch Movies — They Also Play Them
August 10-16, 2008 Issue
Back in the olden days, when dinosaurs (such as
Godzilla) roamed the theaters, “movie merchandising” was largely limited to a
comic book and, maybe, a lunchbox.
Today’s
average movie mogul would sooner play in a lion’s pen than release a movie,
particularly one for younger viewers,... READ MORE
TV Picks 08.10.2008
August 10-16, 2008 Issue
SUNDAY, 9 p.m., midnight
Help! I’m a Hoarder
THE LEARNING
CHANNEL This hour-long special
profiles three of the perhaps more than one million Americans who suffer from
compulsive cluttering: the inability to discard things.
MONDAY, 9 p.m.
History Detectives
PBS Tonight’s segments involve an... READ MORE
DVD Picks & Passes
BY Steven D. Greydanus
July 27-August 9, 2008 Issue
The Hunt for Red
October (1988) - Pick
Patriot Games (1988) - Pick
Clear and Present
Danger (1988) - Pick
The Sum of All Fears (2002) - Pick
New this week on DVD are all four
films of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan thrillers — in Blu-ray. (If you haven’t jumped
on the Blu-ray bandwagon, all four... READ MORE
TV Picks July 27-August 2, 2008
BY Daniel J. Engler
July 27-August 9, 2008 Issue
SUNDAY,
8 p.m.
House Hunters: First Home
HOME & GARDEN TV
Families need homes and, in this episode, hostess Suzanne Whang helps Michael
and Cathy Roddy, parents of Ellie, 8, and Jessica, 6, look for a home in
Florida’s Ocoee-Winter Garden area. They seek a house that has office space, a
big... READ MORE
Soul of the Dark Knight
BY STEVEN D. GREYDANUS This Caped Crusader is One Complex Character
July 27-August 9, 2008 Issue
So deeply does The Dark Knight delve
into the darkness that lurks in the hearts of men that it comes almost as a
shock, bordering on euphoria, to find that it maintains a tenacious grip on
hope in the human potential for good.
There
is nothing glib or pat about this. The vision of evil is too... READ MORE
DVD Picks & Passes
BY Steven D. Greydanus
July 20-26, 2008 Issue
Bernadette: Special Edition (1988) - Pick
If you already own Jean Delannoy’s reverent Lourdes
drama Bernadette in the first DVD edition from Ignatius Press, you
owe it to yourself to give it away at once — and buy the new DVD Special
Edition that Ignatius has just released.
The
new offering... READ MORE
The Saskatchewanian and the Successor
BY Joseph Pronechen
July 20-26, 2008 Issue
Canadian
singer-songwriter and Catholic evangelist Mark Mallett wrote his
first song when he was 9 years old. Much has transpired between then and his
recent invitation to sing for Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican for the 25th
Anniversary of the John Paul II Foundation.
In May,... READ MORE
DVD Picks & Passes
BY Steven D. Greydanus
July 13-19, 2008 Issue
Monsieur Vincent (1947) - Pick
At last!
Making its long-awaited DVD debut this week is Vatican list film Monsieur
Vincent, Maurice Cloche’s beautifully crafted, award-winning biopic
starring Pierre Fresnay as St. Vincent de Paul.
Long
available only in out-of-print English-dubbed VHS, Monsieur... READ MORE
Catholics Love New York
BY Angelo Stagnaro New Museum Exhibit Traces the Romance
July 13-19, 2008 Issue
In New York
City circa 1806, only one Catholic could be counted for every six
non-Catholics. By the time the Civil War ended six decades later, half the
metropolis was Catholic. Today more than 20 million Catholics live in the
tri-state area.
A major new museum exhibition
explores this... READ MORE
TV Picks July 13-19, 2008
BY Daniel J. Engler
July 13-19, 2008 Issue
All Times Eastern
SUNDAY,
10:30 p.m.
Air Group 16:
We Came to Remember
PBS This half-hour
documentary joins veterans of Air Group 16, who served on the aircraft carrier
U.S.S. Lexington in World War II, as they hold their final reunion and attend
the dedication of the National World War II... READ MORE
tV Picks July 6-12, 2008
BY Daniel J. Engler
July 6-12, 2008 Issue
DAILY, 3 p.m.
Chaplet of Divine Mercy
CATHOLICTV Jesus told St. Faustina in the 1930s, “My heart
overflows with great mercy for souls, and especially for poor sinners … [I]t is
for them that the blood and water flowed from my heart as from a fount
overflowing with mercy. For them I dwell in... READ MORE
DVD Picks & Passes
BY Steven D. Greydanus
July 6-12, 2008 Issue
The Mummy (1932) — Pick
Bean: The Movie/Mr.
Bean’s Holiday (1997/2007) — Pick
This week, mummy movies hit DVD new
release shelves, hoping to ride the coattails of Brendan Fraser’s third
big-screen mummy adventure (opening Aug. 1).
Fraser’s The
Mummy (1999) and The Mummy... READ MORE
R2D2, Eat Your Diode Out
BY STEVEN D. GREYDANUS You’ve Never Met a Robot — or a Film — With a Heart Like Wall-E’s
July 6-12, 2008 Issue
In a barren
wasteland of endless towers and canyons of refuse, a single creature stirs: a
small robot chugging tirelessly about, almost imperceptibly bringing order out
of disorder. His boxy body is a portable trash compactor into which he scoops
load after load of the sea of trash stretching in... READ MORE
DVD Picks and Passes
BY Steven D. Greydanus
June 29 - July 5, 2008 Issue
Be Kind Rewind (2008)
The Man Who Shot
Liberty Valance / Shane (1962/1953)
Recently
released on DVD, Michel Gondry’s Be Kind Rewind is as
kind-hearted and nostalgic as its name suggests. Centered on an old-fashioned
neighborhood video-rental shop (that’s video as in VHS videotape), Be
Kind... READ MORE
Look Ma — No Joystick!
BY THOMAS L. MCDONALD Wii Fit Gets Gamers off the Couch and Moving
June 29 - July 5, 2008 Issue
With the Wii,
Nintendo is trying to shatter the image of the gamer as a glassy-eyed youth
grimly gripping a controller, moving nary a muscle save for the thumbs.
The system’s user-friendly design
and appealing content is drawing all kinds of people — gamers and non-gamers,
young and old.... READ MORE
TV Picks June 29- July 5, 2008
BY Daniel J. Engler
June 29 - July 5, 2008 Issue
All Times Eastern
DAILY
Catholic TV Shows
CatholicTV Run by
Boston Catholic Television and carried by Sky Angel, Comcast and other outlets,
this station provides 24-hour Catholic programming across the United States
every day, from Holy Mass (weekdays 9:30 a.m., 7:30 p.m.) to the Rosary,... READ MORE
DVD Picks & Passes
BY Steven D. Greydanus
June 22-28, 2008 Issue
The Spiderwick
Chronicles (2008)
Caramel (2007)
New this week
on DVD, The Spiderwick Chronicles is a smart, scary
fantasy family thriller that offers depth and meaning in a genre littered with
mere competent entertainment. Where films like Zathura
and Night at the Museum offer... READ MORE
Abracadabra, Catholics!
BY MATTHEW LICKONA A ‘Gospel Magician’ Wows and Witnesses
June 22-28, 2008 Issue
“Then
Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did as the Lord had commanded. Aaron threw
his staff down before Pharaoh and his servants, and it was changed into a
snake. Pharaoh, in turn, summoned wise men and sorcerers, and they also, the
magicians of Egypt, did likewise by their magic arts. Each... READ MORE
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