Movie Review
Written on 17 Apr, 2013 at 16:06 in
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Rick McGinnis Anthony Quinn as Pope Kiril in the film version of Morris West's novel The Shoes of the Fisherman
When Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires stepped onto the balcony at St. Peter’s Square last month, he helped provide a satisfactory conclusion to a ritual that – as we were told repeatedly in the thicket of media coverage – is watched with fascination both within and without the Catholic ... (Continue reading)
Written on 11 Jan, 2013 at 11:52 in
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Rick McGinnis I doubt that I’m the only person who found the killing of Osama bin Laden by U.S. Navy SEALS last year unsatisfying, both as a skirmish in an ongoing war and, looking at it a bit more flippantly, as a dramatic finale. For all the counter-espionage resources that it took to find the man, and the undeniable military skill of the SEALS who did the dirty work, it had the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 Oct, 2012 at 14:54 in
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Rick McInnis I’m writing this column at the end of what has to be one of the least interesting summers in movie history. To make matters worse – if you work for a Hollywood studio – it’s also been one of the least profitable, but that doesn’t mean that movies aren’t important. As the Middle East erupted into bloody riots that took the life of the U.S. ambassador to Libya, among others, it ... (Continue reading)
Written on 22 Sep, 2012 at 6:22 in
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Amusements Rick McGinnis For most families, college is the acid test of their parenting, the point when independence is finally granted and the long years of helicopter parenting (hopefully) cease. In the aftermath of three generations that have embraced youthful rebellion as an inevitable stage of life – an idea almost unheard of a century ago – we send our children off to university (or its equivalent) resigned to seeing some, but hopefully not ... (Continue reading)
Written on 24 Aug, 2012 at 17:12 in
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Rick McGinnis
Growing up during the Cold War, I saw the Earth end many times over. Mushroom clouds bloomed in films and TV shows such as The Day After, Testament, Threads, The War Game, By Dawn’s Early Light, On the Beach, The Bedford Incident, Fail Safe and Miracle Mile. Looking back from today, they might vary in quality but they share a common tone – grim resignation – and I can recall with certainty ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Jul, 2012 at 6:41 in
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Rick McGinnis Culture matters. I would carve these words on stone slabs and hand deliver them to every conservative and pro-life organization in the English-speaking world if I thought that it would make a difference, but I’m no longer sure it will. We may, I fear, have absented ourselves from culture and the arts for so long that everything we do now is a rear guard action, fought on the outskirts of the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 20 Jun, 2012 at 18:21 in
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Rick McGinnis When The Hunger Games opened in theatres this past March it was a sensation, earning over US$150 million in its first weekend and becoming the third highest-grossing opening weekend of all time. Dealers in hindsight told us we shouldn’t have been surprised – 17.5 million copies of the Suzanne Collins’ original young readers sci-fi novel had been sold in the U.S. by its publisher, and over 36 million copies of the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Apr, 2012 at 12:12 in
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Rick McGinnis As a purely anecdotal aside, I’d like to mention that few of the people I know who’ve walked the Camino de Santiago, the ancient pilgrim trail that provides the setting for Emilio Estevez’ film The Way, were actually Catholic, or even appreciably Christian. The Camino has become, in an age of widened horizons but jaded palettes, a kind of extreme tourism destination, much like Peru’s Inca Trail or the Kanchenjunga Trek ... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 Mar, 2012 at 4:52 in
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Rory Leishman The Way, a low-budget movie starring Martin Sheen, one of the most radical left-wing activists in Hollywood, has won unstinting praise from conservatives like Laura Ingraham, a prominent talk-show host in the United States. At the conclusion of an interview with Sheen and his son, Emilio Estevez, the movie’s writer and director , Ingraham enthused: “There are not many films that I say you must see, that you must run to ... (Continue reading)
Written on 9 Apr, 2010 at 6:05 in
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Michael Coren
In early March, the usual Hollywood types gathered at the usual Hollywood Oscar event and gave the usual people the usual awards. Avatar didn’t win much, but it hardly matters – it’s the most financially successful movie in the history of cinema. It’s also anti-Christian, anti-human and bursting with pagan and anti-life concepts and constructs.
Set in 2154, it concerns a paraplegic marine (presumably Obama’s healthcare bill was not a success) given the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 20 Mar, 2010 at 18:51 in
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Amusements Rick McGinnis There are a few rules about reviewing movies that no one can teach you – that only become evident after you’ve sat through many hundreds of hours of films you probably didn’t enjoy and written reviews that, taken as a whole, provide evidence of a life in the midst of being wasted. Some apply generally to the whole history of moviemaking and can even be extended to other art forms, such ... (Continue reading)
Written on 17 Jan, 2010 at 19:14 in
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Amusements Rick McGinnis 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)
Written on 13 Jul, 2009 at 12:39 in
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Joseph Jalsevac
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)
Written on 30 Apr, 2009 at 12:58 in
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Review Rick McGinnis Rick McGinnis reviews Sam Mendes’ ‘Revolutionary Road’, which offers typical Hollywood fare on the 1950s. (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Mar, 2008 at 12:15 in
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Theresa Matters and Tony Gosgnach 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)
