A Review of Colin Ian Jeffery’s ‘Sorrows and Joys’
REVIEW: Sorrows and Joys --- Colin Ian Jeffery
ISBN: 978197459830
Paperback £5.14 Amazon or any good bookshop
Collection of 212 poems
Colin Ian Jeffery is a leading Christian...
Captain Fantastic and Hollywood’s Anti-Catholicism
Viggo Mortensen, the same actor who played Strider/Aragorn in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, seems to enjoy getting naked in his non-Tolkien films,...
The Eyes of the Heart: A Movie Review of “Prince of Foxes”
Year: 1949
Filming: Black & White
Length: 107 minutes
Genre: Adventure/Drama/History/Swashbuckler
Maturity: PG (for intense thematic elements)
Cast: Tyrone Power (Andrea Orsini), Orson Welles (Cesare Borgia), Wanda Hendrix (Camilla...
Pilgrim Eagle: A Review of Charles A. Coulombe’s History Text Puritan’s Empire
“This above all: To thine own self be true.”
-William Shakespeare
Puritan’s Empire by Charles A. Coulombe is a unique tour-de-force of American history from a Catholic...
Glorying in Glass: A Movie Review of “Snow White and the Huntsman”
Year: 2012
Filming: Color
Length: 127 minutes
Genre: Drama/Adventure/Fantasy
Maturity: PG-13 (for intense themes, scary images, and fantasy violence)
Cast: Kristen Stewart (Snow White), Chris Hemsworth (the Huntsman), Charlize Theron (Ravenna), Sam Claflin (Prince William),...
Bound by a Seal: A Movie Review of “I Confess”
Year: 1953
Filming: Black & White
Length: 95 minutes
Genre: Drama/Inspirational/Religious/Suspense
Maturity: PG (for intense thematic elements)
Cast: Montgomery Clift (Fr. Michael Logan), Anne Baxter (Ruth Grandfort), O.E. Hass...
So Let it Be Written: A Movie Review of the Ten Commandments
(A recent review of an older film, the Ten Commandments hearkens back to a more golden, and more innocent, era of Hollywood. Much better...
Ant-Man vs. Daredevil
(As a bit of light-hearted reading before the issuance of the Holy Father’s Apostolic Letter later today, here are some thoughts on two superheroes,...
On the Lord’s Appearing: A Review
(From the archives, but always new, here is a review of an excellent book by Father Jonathan Robinson, provost of the Toronto Oratory. A...
Mission Impossible: To Make a Real Movie
I finally got around recently to watching the fifth instalment of the Mission Impossible franchise. As expected, it was slick and high-budget, with impressive...