Movie Reviews and Recommendations – Sometimes you need a Catholic perspective on today’s movies and that’s what these posts provide. In addition to Catholic movie reviews, you’ll find resources to help you plan for your apostolate, youth group, and family!
There are a lot of good movies out there, with high production quality and deep messages, though perhaps not as many as we would like. Once in a while, a film will come along that manages to introduce us to key aspects of the Catholic faith, allowing us to glimpse...
Whiplash is an excellent production with a thematic background that, if it is watched with a critical eye, can lead to an interesting debate and reflection, and probably some controversy. The story revolves around a young musician, Andrew, who studies at a prestigious...
The "Pope Francis Minute" is Catholic Link’s animated series on the teachings of Pope Francis. The events portrayed in the series are fictional events based on the wisdom of our Holy Father. In this episode, Pope Francis is speaking to a young man who has just...
“The Incredibles” is an animated film that focuses on the life of a family in which all members have superhero powers. It is one of those few animated productions that has the unusual ability to reach a big range of ages with its plot, including adults. Beyond the...
“What this world needs is a little wonder!” There are so many themes that can be unpacked from the short film, The Butterfly Circus, that it is hard to know where to begin, but maybe beginning with wonder is a start. Set in the era of the Great Depression, this short...
Inside Out is the newest release from Pixar Animation Studios and Disney. We know the Pixar brand’s penchant for entertaining both children and adults, alike (Up, Monsters Inc, and Cars just to name a few), and they have certainly lived up to their reputation this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTsitO4TXF8 Evangelists? Aren’t those judgmental people who yell that you’re always sinning? Or that uber-Christian kid from high school that says one thing and does the other? This video clip from the movie The Mission illustrates a...
Today’s video is a sneak peek from a new series on the mystery and meaning of marriage called Beloved. Its message is clear enough, so I don't feel the need to explain much. As a simple note, I would like to point something that I think is fundamental if we truly want...
A painful walk in the dark, with a few dashes of light humor or just plain oddity, Calvary lays out the drama of a good priest in an impossible world. The religious sensibility in Ireland lays in ruins after the sex abuse scandals, yet the human heart never ceases to...
Handle with Care combines factual information with parenting experiencing to take a light-hearted look at how to care for a newborn baby. A Deeper Look at Being a Parent Of course, if anyone thought parenting was a matter of completing a checklist like this one,...
n this contemporary re-enactment of Mark 2:1-12, we see the need for us to bring each other to Christ for forgiveness and healing. And again he entered into Capharnaum after some days. And it was heard that he was in the house. And many came...
Among the films starring Harrison Ford- best known for his roles as Han Solo and Indiana Jones - Regarding Henry (1991) is possibly one of his least well-known films. Directed by Mike Nichols and written by a young J.J. Abrams - later famous for producing...
What does it mean to live the Gospel? We are encouraged to do it all the time in sermons, but how does a person do this? It starts with looking away from ourselves, looking at others, looking with love. This video is a beautiful example of the power of looking at...
Communication is extremely important in any relationship. One of the greatest challenges is to be able and willing to step continually outside one's proper paradigms so as to understand what the other person says from their viewpoint, from their life experience....
Over the years there have been many adaptations of the monumental work of Victor Hugo's Les Miserables. These include a musical adaptation originally presented in 1980 in France, which later was translated into several languages. The major motion picture we are...
In today's video, 22-year-old film producer Brian Ivee undertakes a new documentary "The Drop Box." It recounts the story of a South Korean Pastor Lee Jongrak who decided to do something about the hundreds of unwanted babies that are abandoned on the streets of Seoul,...
Hugo is an interesting and entertaining movie which offers many topics for discussion. Based on the novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick, the plot revolves around a boy, Hugo, and his search for answers following his father’s death. Hugo meets Georges...