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 [...]
