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In 60 Seconds: Maleficent! Belle! Ida! Blended!

Deacon Steven D. Greydanus Blogs

Tonight on Reel Faith, David and I review Maleficient, A Million Ways to Die in the West and the British period piece Belle. (Find out where and when to watch Reel Faith—and check out our new website!)

Maleficent (SDG)

Warmed-over Frozen? My case might surprise you. (See also my full review.)

Belle (DD)

No, it’s not a revisionist take on Beauty and the Beast!

Ida (SDG)

A Polish nun embarks on a trip of discovery in this gorgeous black-and-white period piece.

Blended (DD)

Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore reunite for the third time after The Wedding Singer and 50 First Dates.

More 60 second reviews!

Deacon Steven D. Greydanus

Deacon Steven D. Greydanus Deacon Steven D. Greydanus is film critic for the National Catholic Register, creator of Decent Films, a permanent deacon in the Archdiocese of Newark, and a member of the New York Film Critics Circle. For 10 years he co-hosted the Gabriel Award–winning cable TV show “Reel Faith” for New Evangelization Television. Steven has degrees in media arts and religious studies, and has contributed several entries to the New Catholic Encyclopedia, including “The Church and Film” and a number of filmmaker biographies. He has also written about film for the Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought, Social Science, and Social Policy. He has a BFA in Media Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York, an MA in Religious Studies from St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Overbrook, PA, and an MA in Theology from Immaculate Conception Seminary at Seton Hall University in South Orange, NJ. Steven’s writing for the Register has been recognized many times by the Catholic Press Association Awards, with first-place wins in 2017 and 2016 and second-place wins in 2019 and 2015. Steven and his wife Suzanne have seven children.

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