166 Kids Make 1 Miraculous Movie
by Joseph Pronechen in Reviews on Wednesday, May 26, 2010 6:00 AM
Rarely does a movie affect audiences like the new St. Bernadette of Lourdes.
“It was such an incredible experience watching it. We laughed, and we cried. It has total honesty,” said an enthusiastic Alex Sepkus after he and his wife, Dange, of Ossining, N.Y., saw this movie. “I think it will become a Catholic classic.”
Excitement and emotion ran equally high among the audience of 350 at the one-hour-and-17-minute feature film’s recent premiere at St. Mary’s Church in Norwalk, Conn.
St. Bernadette... READ MORE
Stop Action and Intrigue
by Lori Hadacek Chaplin in Reviews on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 7:56 AM
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Instead of high tech 3D computer animation, Fantastic Mr. Fox is a stop-action movie — meaning objects are shot frame-by-frame to make them appear to move on their own.
At first glance the scruffy fox dolls with mesmerizing glass eyes were a bit jarring to my over-computerized sensibility — especially after just seeing movies like Up and Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. Easily moving past this, I found... READ MORE
More Than Television
by Daria Sockey in Reviews on Wednesday, March 17, 2010 6:00 AM
“We don’t have TV in our home,” says the radical Catholic mother.
Before you decide that this is just too (Choose one: weird, intellectual, Amish-wannabe, impossibly high a standard for your family, isolationist, child-abusive), please note the lack of the indefinite article. She didn’t say they had no television set. She probably meant that they didn’t get cable or satellite and only watched the free local channels in the event of a papal conclave.
Chances are, this family has a television set... READ MORE
Learning Detachment, Pixar Style
by Lori Hadacek Chaplin in Reviews on Monday, February 15, 2010 6:00 AM
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If I’m lucky, I’ll see one or two movies a year that really speak to me on a spiritual level. I saw the movie Up
Weeks later, I’m still thinking about its particular message to me — and anyone else who has had to leave their home because of our nation’s economic crisis.
After seeing the movie, I wanted to know what others thought of it. Most critics praised the film. Steven D. Greydanus... READ MORE
There's an App for That
by Melissa Wiley in Reviews on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 6:00 AM
When I got my iPod Touch, I thought of it as a sort of guilty pleasure: one more way to keep up with email and blogs, and perhaps a way to listen to audiobooks. I had no idea it would transform my prayer life.
Then, while wandering the wonderland that is Apple’s App Store — a virtual warehouse full of applications custom-made for the iPhone and iPod Touch—I encountered Universalis, which installs the Liturgy of the Hours on your device. I had heard about the Universalis website, but at the time... READ MORE
The 13th Day Delivers
by Daria Sockey in Reviews on Thursday, October 08, 2009 6:00 AM
Quick quiz: What was the most important event of 1917?
a. The Bolshevik revolution that led to Communist rule of Russia for 70 years.
b. The United States entered World War I
c. God publicly proved his existence before a crowd of 70,000 people
Faith & Family readers are a Catholic-savvy bunch, so I’ll bet most of you connected “1917” with “crowd of 70,000” and thought, “Oh yeah. She’s talking about the miracle of the sun at Fatima.”
But maybe the implications of that event don’t always strike us... READ MORE
Book Review: Born to Love
by Ana Braga-Henebry in Reviews on Monday, September 07, 2009 6:00 AM
Let me begin by saying I am no expert in the subject matter of this small volume, titled Born to Love: Gay-Lesbian Identity, Relationships, and Marriage-Homosexuality, the Bible, and the Battle for Chaste Love
I read the book from the perspective of a homeschooling Christian mother of seven children, who is all too aware of the world that will confront her children once they venture forth from the family home.
Born to Love
Movie Review: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
by Michael Sortino in Reviews on Tuesday, September 01, 2009 6:00 AM
As of this writing, the sixth Harry Potter film has grossed over 865 million dollars in nearly six weeks. No doubt, the success of this film and its predecessors in the series is a result of the phenomenal popularity of the book series by author, J.K. Rowling.
I won’t go into the books, into the right or wrong of letting our kids read them. Let’s take a look at this latest film for the sake of the movie itself ... Is it worth all the fuss? While readers of the novels usually dislike the films, I... READ MORE
