Technology Tools for Your Ministry: No Mousing Around Book Review

Technology Tools for Your Ministry: No Mousing Around! by Tim Welch 23rd Publications 2008 114 pages ISBN 9781585956760 $16.95       This small handbook is brilliant – beginning with the size of the book, font style and size, white space on the pages, the cover (and the quality of the cover paper and the [...]

There Will Be Blood

If I had seen this film before this past week, it would have been my #1, knocking 3:10 to Yuma off my top ten (sorry about that…)       In 1898 a lone man digs through the earth. Undaunted by the elements, the sheer hardness of the earth and the seemingly impossible task he [...]

Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything Movie

  I used to think that the pirates who didn’t do anything, according to the song, just sat around all day: the epitome of laziness. But in this big screen veggie tale, the three vegetable pirates are good-hearted minimum pay service workers, with low self-esteem, who serve and clear tables at a dinner theater (about [...]

I am Legend the Movie

Will Smith plays Dr. Richard Neville, a scientist soldier, who with his dog, Sam, seem to be the sole survivors of a viral epidemic that has either killed most of the people on the earth, and impaired the few hundred thousand remaining that appear as light-shy vampires, drawn into action by human blood. New York is [...]

Savages the Movie

One of the most interesting aspects to this Tamara Jenkins production (Slums of Beverly Hills) is how she uses Bertolt Brecht’s (1898 – 1959) dramatic theory (what can we learn? narrative rather than plot – and then to present the story in a rather anti -Brecht non-epic way)  to frame the story.     Wanda [...]

Who says they don’t make good films in Hollywood?

I am posting this so that you will read my previous entry; 2007 gave us many great films and so very many good films. I have reviewed many on my blog, and even more via my column in St. Anthony Messenger: www.americancatholic.org (click on Entertainment). Maybe this list will interest you on a rainy day… [...]

Sr. Rose’s Top Ten Films 2007

Here is my Top Ten List for 2007 – a very difficult list to make this year that gave us so many life-affirming movies as well as those that dealt with human rights issues (documentaries in particular). I saw about 80 films this year out of about 350 that were released. If you check Variety in [...]

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