Reprising song from “Sister Act,” singing nuns from the Daughters of St. Paul serenade Whoopi Goldberg during the Women of Achievement Luncheon. Advance photo/Irving Silverstein Some of the Sisters of our Daughters of St. Paul Choir in New York sang for Whoppi Coldberg at the Women of Achievement Event. Here is a link to two of [...]
Becoming Screen Literate: The Screens Issue
“Becoming Screen Literate” (New York Times magazine “The Screens Issue” Novermber 23, 2008), is perhaps too long but an important article (though WIRED has visited this territory before in many ways or … another.) Media prophets have been yelling that the sky is falling for decades … or is it that the consumer audience is accomodating a new visual [...]
November Movie Reviews
Mickey Rourke in “The Wrestler”. It won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in September, 2009, and opens in theaters in December. As you may be aware, I have been reviewing films and television for St. Anthony Messenger, a national Catholic magazine, since 2003. My column is called “Eye on Entertainment”. (I also [...]
Twilight the Movie
Audience Impressions Amid a gaggle of giggling teens I went to see Twilightyesterday. Every time Edward (Robert Pattinson) came on screen the giggling and sighs increased. But there were also younger kids and moms present to round out the audience. The were all giggling when they came in the theater and squealing when they left. [...]
Slumdog Millionaire
Hollywood meets Bollywood in a wonderful, tough film about two orphan brothers who grow up in extreme poverty in contemporary India; it is Oliver Twist Redux with a Quiz Show twist. One of the brothers, Jamal, goes his own way and gets a job serving tea to workers at a TV studio. He [...]
Quantum of Solace the Movie
Quantum of Solace This is not a review per se, but here are some comments I jotted in my notebook during the film: A portion of comfort? A measure of mercy? Where? For whom? By whom? “Revenge is a dish best served cold” may apply here: measured but alas, cold and empty. I don’t believe [...]
City of Angels Film Festival Dates Announced
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Lincoln Heights ABCFamily Wins Gabriel Award
Among several communication and media groups that I belong to is the Catholic Academy for Communication Arts Professionals (www.catholicacademy.org). Since 1972 the organization has been recognizing and awarding TV and radio shows, and more recently, film through the Gabriel Awards (for all of this year’s winners visit http://home.catholicweb.com/GabrielAwards/). The Catholic Academy [...]
Brave Knights and Heroic Courage USC Event Nov 12
The Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at USC Cordially invites you to a lecture on: Brave Knights and Heroic Courage Featured Speaker: Micheal Flaherty Co-Founder of Walden Media Producers of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian and Amazing Grace Respondent: Sr. Rose Pacatte, FSP [...]
Sr. Rose’s AOL Blog Archive is now at Blogspot
Thank you for your interest in my more than 400 reviews and postings that used to be hosted by AOL. They decided not to do this anymore and then worked a deal with Google so us bloggers could migrate all our hard work to a new home! When the notice came I created a new [...]
