Pushing Tin
Pushing Tin
1999, Director: Mike Newell.
Actors: John Cusack, Billy Bob Thorton, Cate Blanchett, Angelina Jolie.
Music: Anne Dudley. (Rated R for language and mild sexuality)
“You land...
Millions
Millions
Director: Danny Boyle, 98 min., U.K., 2004. Starring: Alex Etel, James Nesbitt, Daisy Donovan
Plot: (Spoiler alert!) The UK is about to switch its...
Our Lady’s Psalter
Our Lady's Psalter: The Rosary of the Mystery of Christ
Translated by Fr. Marco Testa
ISBN 978-0-9880692-0-6
Cost: $10. Proceeds benefit the pro-life movement.
Father Marco Testa, a...
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...
Hilary Mantel’s Reformation Revisionism
Hilary Mantel, English novelist died last week at the age of 70. Her fame - or infamy, depending on one's perspective - rests largely...
Festival and Ferial, by Anna Rist: A Review
Festival and Ferial
Anna Rist
Kaufmann Publishing, St. Simon’s Island , 2014
ISBN : 978-0-9905329-3-4
In one of his Odes (IV.2) Horace describes the danger of trying to...
Mendelssohn’s Ave Maria
On this memorial of the Holy Name of Mary, here is a magnificent rendition of the Ave Maria by Felix Mendelssohn, which may seem...
Calvary
Calvary (2014)
Directed by John Michael McDonagh
Written by John Michael McDonagh
Stay for the credits at the end of Calvary, for interspersed in the endless lists...
Sunday Musical Offering: The Time for Flowers, and Mozart’s 36th Masterpiece
A friend just sent along this poignant ballad, and as I wrote in reply, in gist, that I enjoy pretty much anything with a...
Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile
I just finished reading Joseph Pearce’s biography of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, subtitled ‘A Soul in Exile’, a remarkable book, packing a very full life into...