Catholic in Film School

Praise the Lord, I made it to my 20th year.
I hope you had a great Thanksgiving holiday. I spent mine stuffing my face, shopping without trampling people to death, and watching movies with my family.
To start off the “20″ Birthday thread, how about some mini reviews?
Bolt
Eh, it was okay. There was some Lassie-esque “awww” moments, [...]

You know, I’d think it’d be quite hard to take a saint like St. Francis of Assisi with all of his spiritual intellect and charismatic gifts and turn him into a flower field-skipping hippie. But that’s exactly what the makers of the film Brother Sun Sister Moon did to poor, poor St. Francis.
I watched the [...]

I’ve decided to start a new thread where I highlight two or three movies I have recently seen that I think you should. Some movies will be old favorites, others will be more recent releases.
1. Henry Poole Was Here
Henry Poole abandons his fiancée and family business to spend what he believes are his remaining days [...]

I have a stack of things I’ve been meaning to review…since the summer.
First up–The Faithful Traveler: Philadelphia’s Miraculous Medal Shrine!
Join Diana von Glahn as she explores the history, tradition, art and architecture behind Philadelphia’s Miraculous Medal Shrine.
When 24-year-old Catherine Laboure entered the Parisian convent of the Daughters of Charity, she had no idea that her [...]

I intentionally did not read any reviews of this film before I went to see it because I didn’t want anyone’s opinions too affect my own. Even when I quoted Mark and Clayton in my pre-review I just scanned their articles looking for what looked like a relevant chunk of text. But now for my [...]

Sigh.
Despite the fact that the entire theatre was shrieking from laughter, The Happening is a sci-fi-ish thriller where one day people just start flipping out and killing themselves. One chick uses her hair chopsticks to stab herself in the neck, another guy drives into a tree, another one shoots himself…you get the picture. At [...]

I didn’t have a chance to go see it the day it came out, but I saw Kung Fu Panda last night and I loved it!
When the film begins, all is well in the Valley of Peace, located somewhere in China. The Valley of Peace is famed for its Kung Fu masters, and it is [...]

Paulist Productions’ latest webisode series “Tyler’s Ride” makes use of the classic story line where the snobby rich kid gets kicked out of the house, the snobby rich kid faces real life obstacles, and then the snobby rich kid learns his lesson. “The Lesson” in this case is learned after Tyler (Grant Alan) loses a [...]

Yes, I am fully aware that’s not the name of the film, but throughout the entire movie that little voice inside my head kept going, “Oh Prince Caspian, you’re so dreamy!”
I’m kidding.
The movie starts off with the birth of Prince Caspian’s nephew. It’s now been a thousand-and-something years since the “sons and daughters [...]

So I finally saw it! And I did enjoy it.
The film follows two brothers, Cliff and Jeff Azize (who also work for Grassroots Films) as they travel the world to try to understand what it means to be human. It’s quite a lofty concept to undertake in 90 minutes, but to do so the brothers [...]