Movie Review
Written on 9 Apr, 2010 at 6:05 in
Columnist, Michael Coren, Movie Review | Author:
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
Columnist, Movie Review, Rick McGinnis | Author:
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
Columnist, Movie Review, Rick McGinnis | Author:
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
Movie Review, Pro-Life | Author:
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)
Written on 23 Feb, 2008 at 10:45 in
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Review Jonathan Castellino 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)
Written on 23 Feb, 2008 at 10:44 in
Columnist, Movie Review, Rev. Royal Hamel | Author:
Review Royal Hamel
"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)
Written on 16 Jan, 2008 at 15:29 in
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Pete Vere Senior Reporter
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)
Written on 23 Apr, 2007 at 9:31 in
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Review by Russ Kuykendall The Interim
I once heard an African-American southern gospel singer – whose name I cannot recall – preface his rendition of a beloved hymn by pointing out that it can be played on just the black keys of a piano. He claimed this approximated the pentatonic scale indigenous to west Africa. Then, he went on to speculate that the captain of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Feb, 2007 at 13:48 in
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Review by Hilary White The Interim 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)
Written on 17 May, 2006 at 9:07 in
Movie Review, Religion, Society & Culture | Author:
Capote
Directed by Bennett Miller.
Rated: R
Review by Hilary White
Reporter
The Oscar-nominated film Capote opens with a long, still shot of the Kansas prairies creating the backdrop to a solitary farmhouse in which ... (Continue reading)
Written on 16 Jan, 2006 at 8:40 in
Movie Review, Religion | Author:
Hilary White On the way home from the theatre, after seeing The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, I was troubled with doubts. I had heard from various sources, just as I had about the Greatest-Christian-Movie-of-All-Time-that-Will-Change-Your-Whole-Life-and-Convert-the-Heathen-Liberals-and-Probably-Cure-Cancer (aka, The Passion of the Christ), that Narnia was going to be the answer to our wildest evangelistic dreams. The mainstream media’s anti-Christian fortification had finally been breached and Christian themes could once again hold prominent places in ... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Feb, 2005 at 7:50 in
Movie Review, Profiles | Author:
Among the latest Hollywood film offerings is Kinsey - a sanitized, celebratory biography of sexologist Alfred Kinsey, starring Liam Neeson in the title role. This film is another attempt to whitewash the career of this "research scientist," who in actual fact, was a notorious sexual deviant skewing research data to promote a perverse agenda. ... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Feb, 2005 at 7:41 in
Abortion, Morgentaler, Movie Review | Author:
Tony Gosgnach
The Bell Globemedia conglomerate took another kick at pro-life, pro-family Canadians recently with the airing of a made-for-TV movie lionizing Canada's most notorious abortionist, Henry Morgentaler.
Broadcast by its CTV television component on Jan. 5, Choice purported to recount the "tumultuous life story" of Morgentaler, who was credited ... (Continue reading)
