My career choice hasn’t been a gateway to riches, but it has a few perks, one of which is the appearance of dozens of DVD screeners in my mailbox in the weeks before Christmas. “Academy screeners” is their full name – DVDs of movies made for members of the Motion Picture Academy of America so that members can nominate Oscar winners without having to drag themselves to a theatre. I don’t ... (Continue reading)
No doubt you could be excused for considering Hollywood to be a synonym for vice and a film festival an excuse to air all the freshest depravities of the film industry. For example, you may have been following the most prestigious film festival in the world, the Cannes, which recently awarded “Best Screenplay” to a movie centered ... (Continue reading)
Rick McGinnis reviews Sam Mendes’ ‘Revolutionary Road’, which offers typical Hollywood fare on the 1950s. (Continue reading)
The producer and co-writer of the award-winning pro-life movie Bella, Leo Severino, was in Ontario Feb. 14-16 to give a preview to select groups before the movie is officially released in Canada. He was originally invited to speak at the fourth annual Culture of Life Student Leadership Conference in Hamilton, but that grew from just a one-day engagement to three days of pre-screenings and speaking appearances. On Valentine’s ... (Continue reading)
When I first saw a trailer for the film Juno some months back, a silent alarm was triggered; here was the story of a 16-year-old girl (played by Canadian Ellen Page) who finds herself pregnant at the hands of a schoolmate, stomached with a “doodle that can’t be un-did,” as the witty clerk at the drugstore informs her (The Office’s Rainn Wilson). Although some critics claim this film to be yet another ... (Continue reading)
"Hassan!” I called. “Come back with it!” He was already turning the street corner, his rubber boots kicking up snow. He stopped, turned. He cupped his hands around his mouth. “For you, a thousand times over!” he said. So opens the pivotal event in The Kite Runner, a novel by ... (Continue reading)
One word summarizes The Golden Compass, a movie based upon the first book of anti-Christian and pro-atheist children’s author Philip Pullman. This word is boring. I initially intended to avoid the movie. However, I had just co-authored Pied Piper of Atheism: Philip Pullman and Children’s Fantasy (AtheismForChildren.com), a new book by Ignatius Press that forewarns parents and pastors about the ... (Continue reading)
I may have been one of only a handful of reviewers in the Western world who bought and read the novel The Children of Men before seeing the film of the same title, released in North America on Christmas Day. Given their mutual premise – a near-future world of total human infertility and the rebirth of hope in the person of an unborn child – I found ... (Continue reading)
$29, plus $4.95 shipping Produced by Stephen Genuis M.D and Shelagh Genuis BScOT K.E.G. Publishing, 2911-66 St. Edmonton, AB, T6K4C1, (403)461-1606 Reviewed by Sue Careless A video on sexually transmitted diseases could be so statistically heavy that it would bore its audience to tears or such a downer it would be tuned out. Teen Sex: Challenge and Decision informs without boring and gives kids positive solutions. The narrator and co-producer, Stephen Genuis (pronounced Jenis), has two real strategies: he knows both his data and his audience. ... (Continue reading)
Thanks to a concerted U.S. boycott, a movie which depicts five Catholic priests in a scandalous light appears to be heading for a box office and public relations disaster. The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights and the American Life League have co-sponsored a boycott of the Walt Disney Company, which owns Miramax, the studio which released Priest. Catholic groups were enraged that Disney, a company known for its family type entertainment ventures, would release a film which John Cardinal ... (Continue reading)
The Gay Issue, 40 min. $25.00 (1993) With The Homosexual Challenge by Dr. Don Faris ($12 per book). Video and book combined: $29.95. From Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (905) 479-5885. Understanding Homosexuality and the Reality of Change, 60 min. $29.95 U.S. (1993) From Impact Resources Corp. 1 (800) 333-6475. We all know former alcoholics, people who have escaped from a history of addiction and substance abuse. Usually they left with the help of a support group like Alcoholics Anonymous. But how many of ... (Continue reading)
Starring Sylvester Stallone, John Lithgow, Janie Turner Incredible scenery and awesome, nail-biting climbing scenes are all yours—for a price. As has been the trend by Hollywood for some years, Cliffhanger gives and takes. It gives spectacular visuals and action and takes your innocence and your sense of decency and innate respect for life. Repeated, cold-blooded, as-realistic-as-possible, as-callous-as-possible murders occur throughout. Opponents viciously kick, punch and smash each other with weapons, realistic blood and gore spewing about. In one scene a criminal cold-bloodedly shoots his ... (Continue reading)
Starring Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Sir Richard Attenborough Make no mistake. Jurassic Park is a scary movie and should not be confused for a heavyweight E.T. It is also funny, thrilling, awe-inspiring and thoroughly believable. The special effects are simply mind-boggling. The life which Spielberg’s special effects team has breathed into the dusty skeletons found in museums is so realistic that the dinosaurs become as vividly a part of one’s imagination as the rhinoceros or the elephant—perhaps even ... (Continue reading)
The film Benny and Joon directed by Canadian Jerimiah Chechik is a must see. No doubt, it will be one of the best movies of the summer and, maybe, of the year. Benny and Joon is a wonderful story about a beautiful, mildly insane, young woman named Juniper (Mary Stuart Masterton) and her relationship with a shy, illiterate, and almost mute young man, Sam, who is masterfully played by Johnny Depp. Following a chance meeting, the two fall in ... (Continue reading)
Director Kenneth Branagh continues to work his way through the Shakespeare cannon playing opposite his wife Emma Thompson again in this comedy classic. The interplay between Branagh, who plays Benedick, and Thompson, who is a marvelous Beatrice, alone makes this movie worth watching. Branagh sets this comedy in a villa in the luscious Tuscany countryside in the summer. The scene evokes the magic and charm of the play which tells the story of love which is almost ... (Continue reading)
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Rick McGinnis reviews Sam Mendes’ ‘Revolutionary Road’, which offers typical Hollywood fare on the 1950s.
The producer and co-writer of the award-winning pro-life ...
When I first saw a trailer ...
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One word summarizes The ...
I ...
$29, plus $4.95 shipping Produced by Stephen Genuis M.D and Shelagh Genuis BScOT K.E.G. Publishing, 2911-66 St. ...
Thanks to a concerted U.S. boycott, a movie which depicts five Catholic priests in a ...
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Starring Sylvester Stallone, John Lithgow, Janie Turner Incredible scenery and awesome, nail-biting climbing scenes are all ...
Starring Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Sir Richard Attenborough Make no mistake. Jurassic Park ...
The film Benny and Joon directed by Canadian Jerimiah Chechik is a must see. ...
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