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It Is Called Poetry, Not Map-Reading
- Art
- Thursday, July 6th, 2006
- Robert Bové
Readers will work out their own statement of Eliot’s theme after they have finished — except that my own experience has been that, far from wanting to boil the thing down to any statements, I would wish to say, “Theme?… Read More
Book Review: The Deacon Reader, Edited by James Keating
- Art
- Saturday, July 1st, 2006
- Br. Benet Exton, O.S.B.
On the front cover of The Deacon Reader, edited by James Keating (New York: Paulist Press, May 2006) is a lunette mosaic of St. Lawrence the Deacon from the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia in Ravenna, Italy. In this image the… Read More
USCCB’s Review of Superman Returns
- Art
- Friday, June 30th, 2006
- CE Editors
It's a bird. It's a plane. It's a winner. After 10 years on the drawing board, several stalled starts and a revolving door of writers, directors and leading men, the Man of Steel flies triumphantly back onto movie screens in… Read More
Superman Returns: Splendid Heroic Fun but Beware the Humanistic Undertones
- Art
- Thursday, June 29th, 2006
- Hilary White
The makers of Hollywood blockbusters seem to have learned an important lesson from Mel Gibson’s spectacular success with The Passion of the Christ: religion sells, even if only ersatz religion revolving around fallible caped superheroes.
Superman Returns is a fitting… Read More
Navigating Battlestar America: Sci-Fi Show Asks Real-World Questions
- Art
- Tuesday, June 27th, 2006
- Alex Alexiev
This spring, Entertainment Weekly named Battlestar Galactica number four out of the top ten programs on television. The re-invented science-fiction series features the desperate interstellar flight of the less than 50,000 thousand human survivors of a civilization-wide genocide by the… Read More
USCCB’s Review of The Lake House
- Art
- Friday, June 23rd, 2006
- CE Editors
The stars of the action-packed Speed from 1994 reunite for a romance that is anything but speedy.
The Lake House (Warner Bros.) is an intriguing if slow-moving time-warp love affair that is, at the very least, quite unusual in its… Read More
Life Gets A “Tune Up” in Pixar’s Cars
- Art
- Monday, June 19th, 2006
- Marc T. Newman, Ph.D.
Rival animation studios have got to be asking themselves if Pixar will ever make a flop. So ascendant is Pixar's computer animation house that the only way Disney Studios could continue its reign as the king of animation was to… Read More
USCCB’s Review of A Prairie Home Companion
- Art
- Friday, June 16th, 2006
- CE Editors
Fans of veteran director Robert Altman's classic Nashville will find some happy parallels in his latest, A Prairie Home Companion (Picturehouse), a fanciful riff on radio raconteur Garrison Keillor's long-running series.
Besides Altman's trademark use of a multicharacter canvas and… Read More
“Overtly” Christian Film Gets PG Rating: Probe Requested
- Art
- Wednesday, June 14th, 2006
- CE Editors
On June 7, Scripps Howard ran a story about a ruling by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) awarding a PG rating to a new movie by Provident Films, Facing the Giants. The film, which opens September 29, received… Read More
Truth in Poetry: A Review of Wailing Walls, by Philip C. Kolin
- Art
- Tuesday, June 13th, 2006
- Pavel Chichikov
I’ve got a photograph in my files that shows a group of anti-abortion protestors holding up a sign. There’s a picture on an aborted fetus on it, and the words underneath say: Face the Truth.
Philip Kolin’s new, extraordinarily powerful… Read More
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