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WEEKLY NEWSREEL

by David on May 6, 2013 · 0 comments

Good evening Mr. & Mrs. Catholic, and all you other Christians at sea, welcome to another edition of the Newsreel. This week, we have a trio of stories with a surprisingly common thread. What is it? Read, and see. And…

REWRITE: INDEPENDENCE DAY

by David on March 5, 2013 · 0 comments

It’s inevitable. After watching hundreds and hundreds of movies, you start to think to yourself, “I could do that. Why don’t I just write my own screenplay?” But after a bit more consideration, I just don’t think it would work.…

Hollywood Miserables

by Dr. Paul Kengor on March 1, 2013 · 6 comments

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The Academy Awards came and went without a Best Picture award for Les Miserables, nor for its incredible lead actor, Hugh Jackman. Fortunately, Anne Hathaway won an award for best supporting actress—much deserved.
If you haven’t…

THE TWELVE CLIPS OF CHRISTMAS: DAY 10: WARLOCK

by David on January 4, 2013 · 0 comments

In an article entitled The Nightmare After Christmas, Jason Dietz of Metacritic speculates on why movies released in January are generally so awful. He speculations include such notions as people are still trying to catch up on the blockbuster Christmas…

HOLY HORRORS FOR HALLOWEEN FILM FESTIVAL: THE BELIEVERS

by David November 2, 2012

“A police psychologist and his school-age son become embroiled in the machinations of a mysterious cult religion in this thriller from director John Schlesinger. After his wife is electrocuted in a freak accident, Dr. Cal Jamison (Martin Sheen) and his…

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HOLY HORRORS FOR HALLOWEEN FILM FESTIVAL: BLESS THE CHILD

by David October 21, 2012

“In this supernatural horror story, Jenna (Angela Bettis), an unstable young woman, gives birth to a girl named Cody who proves to be autistic; unable to care for her properly, she turns Cody over to her sister, psychiatric nurse Maggie…

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Introducing High Concepts

by Daniel McInerny May 10, 2012

I’m very pleased to announce today the release of my first novel for adults, High Concepts: A Hollywood Nightmare. It’s a dark comic spin on the age-old premise of a philosopher who goes to Hollywood and overnight becomes the film…

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Hollywood Christians Fight the Great Temptation

by Tony Rossi January 20, 2012

If you’ve seen movies like “The Blind Side” and “The Passion of the Christ” or TV series like “Lost” and “24,” you’ve been exposed to projects that have been worked on by alumni or faculty of the Act One program…

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Keeping Up with the Kardashians Takes On New Meaning

by Teresa Tomeo September 24, 2009

Kourtney Kardashian one of the stars of the popular reality TV program, “Keeping up with the Kardashians” is surprising Hollywood and maybe even herself as well.
The 30 year old model and socialite announced recently not only that she was…

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