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Weekly TV Picks
BY Daniel J. Engler
Feb. 11-17, 2001 Issue 
All times Eastern
by DANIEL J. ENGLER
FEB., VARIOUS DATES
Enduring Faith
PBS, check local listings for time
This 90-minute documentary describes the Church's inspiring work of evangelizing African Americans, promoting vocations among them, and eliminating the culturally ingrained prejudice of some... READ MORE
Safe Surfing for the Whole Family
Feb. 11-17, 2001 Issue
Tips from the U.S. bishops’ document “Your Family and Cyberspace,” available at nccbuscc.org/comm/cyberspace.htm:
Take the time to become educated about the Internet — it's an investment in the safety and health of your children.
Select an Internet Service Provider (ISP) that provides the option of... READ MORE
It’s a Jumble Out There
BY Brother John Raymond
Feb. 11-17, 2001 Issue
My teen-age niece has put me on her e-mail mailing list of friends.
Without my brother's knowledge, she has been receiving e-mail chain letters bearing superstitious threats or promises. “If you don't forward this message to at least 10 people, bad things will happen; if you do, good things will... READ MORE
Weekly Video Picks
Fubruary 04-10, 2001 Issue
John Prizer
Weekly TV Picks
Fubruary 04-10, 2001 Issue
Daniel J. Engler
Cold War Cliffhanger
Thirteen Days makes a thriller of the Cuban missile crisis
Fubruary 04-10, 2001 Issue
John Prizer
Weekly Video Picks
BY John Prizer
January 28-February 3, 2001 Issue
Race Against Time (2000)
Pope John Paul II has warned us about a culture of death in which abortion, euthanasia and suicide become legalized and the norm. Race Against Time, a cable-TV sci-fi movie, is a pop-culture riff on the Holy Father's concerns. Suspense-filled action scenes and... READ MORE
Contaminated Confection
BY John Prizer Chocolat is tainted by anti-Catholic ingredients
January 28-February 3, 2001 Issue
Anti-Catholic bias doesn't always take the form of a frontal assault.
A proven tactic is to condemn Church organizational structures as corrupt and hold out hope for reform.
But accompanying this point of view is often an attack on orthodox Catholic doctrine which, it's implied, needs to be... READ MORE
Weekly Video Picks
January 21-27, 2001 Issue
The Quiet Man (1952)
After making good in A m e r i c a , immigrants often return to the old country to retire. If born into peasant or working - class stock, they're now able to live as gentry in a style which they only dreamed of as youths.
The Oscar-winning The Quiet Man is an intelligent, funny... READ MORE
Computers as Creative Collaborators
BY Brother John Raymond Making movies and music the digital way
January 21-27, 2001 Issue
I remember a few years ago when you had to download audio and video files from the Internet before you could play them.
This was very inconvenient, as the process took a half-hour or more. Then came streaming media, which let you listen or watch something almost immediately. What a relief that was.... READ MORE
Weekly TV Picks
BY Daniel J. Engler
January 14-20, 2001 Issue
All times Eastern
Sunday, Jan. 14
National Football League Conference Championships AFC, CBS, 12:30 p.m., and NFC, Fox, 4 p.m. Game times might change due to matchups; check local listings.
These games – the championships of the American Football Conference and the National Football Conference —... READ MORE
Weekly Video Picks
BY John Prizer
January 14-20, 2001 Issue
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
The unpopularity of the Vietnam War turned American audiences off of big-screen, battlefield heroics for almost three decades.
Saving Private Ryan, directed by Steven Spielberg (Schindler's List), reversed this trend by successfully combining post-Vietnam skepticism with... READ MORE
Weekly TV Picks
BY Daniel J. Engler
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KEYWORDS: Arts
January 7-13, 2001 Issue
All times Eastern
SUNDAY, JAN. 7
National Football League Divisional Playoffs
Check local listings
In one of today's two games, the remaining top two American Football Conference teams battle for a spot in next Sunday's AFC Championship game. In the other contest today, the top two National... READ MORE
Weekly Video Picks
BY John Prizer
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KEYWORDS: Arts
January 7-13, 2001 Issue
The Tree of the Wooden Clogs (1978)
American society has become so secularized over the past 30 years that one finds it difficult to imagine what it would be like to be part of a culture in which everyone believed in God, looked for his design in the world and trusted religious authorities.
The... READ MORE
Big-Screen Sitcom
BY John Prizer
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KEYWORDS: Arts What Women Want sticks with contemporary comedic - and moral - conventions
January 7-13, 2001 Issue
What do women want? Mel Gibson.
At least that's the answer you'd give after watching this competently crafted, box-office-busting, major-star vehicle which has half-hearted aspirations to be something more than that it actually is.
The question may have stumped Freud, but he was trying to explore... READ MORE
Prizer’s Picks
April 30-May 6, 2000 Issue
Galaxy Quest (1999)
Sci-fi mania is about more than special effects.
One of the reasons movies and TV series like Star Wars and Star Trek have developed huge, cultlike followings is that their futuristic exploits are set against a well-ordered moral universe. Good and evil are clearly defined in a... READ MORE
Public TV Gets Religion, Respectfully
BY Verne Gay
April 30-May 6, 2000 Issue
Television news is embarrassed by religion. It can't touch it, can't see it, and — foremost — can't take pictures of it, so the topic is assiduously ignored on most newscasts most nights. There is a sense (or perhaps bias) among news executives that spiritual matters are deeply personal or somehow... READ MORE
Prizer’s Picks
BY John Prizer
April 9-15, 2000 Issue
The Insider (1999)
Media conglomerates and big tobacco are everyone's favorite bad guys, and the Oscar-nominated The Insider takes its shots at these fashionable targets with precision and style. Muckraking writer-director Michael Mann (Miami Vice) turns a real-life story about “60 Minutes”... READ MORE
‘Bob’ And Other Lenten Offerings
BY Verne Gay April TV brings real life, presidents and dinosaurs
April 9-15, 2000 Issue
Should anyone decide to launch a worst-timing awards competition, NBC ought to be the odds-on favorite to win for 2000. In early March, just as Lent was getting under way, the network premiered a prime-time animated sitcom called “God, the Devil and Bob.” Its pre-release promotional “teasers”... READ MORE
Weekly TV Picks
BY Daniel J. Engler
April 1-7, 2000 Issue
All times Eastern
APRIL, VARIOUS DATES
A Long Season
PBS; check local listings for time
“You've got to start way down, at the bottom, when you're six or seven years old,” the dying Babe Ruth advised the children of America about baseball in his farewell address in Yankee Stadium in 1948. In this... READ MORE
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