"But Lukas lives not with a Jesuit community"...

That is the funniest line of P Raymond Schroth SJ's notice of The Rite (a film I have no intention of seeing, so, yes, this is simply an excuse to bemoan yet another faithless cleric)-- Lukas is, evidently, the Anthony Hopkins priest character in this newest exorcism movie-- and of course in these enlightened days all reformed and 'up-dated' Jesuits desire nothing more than to live in fraternal community with their religious brethren and God help them if they don't, if they should, horribile dictu, value the special needs of their apostolate above the domestic pieties that have been recently enshrined as quasi-absolute values, so we know there is something wrong with poor Lukas from the beginning.  The fact that P Schroth can't hear any mention of the Enemy of our human nature without immediately jumping on the poor Manichees' backs is sufficient evidence of his fall from the Catholic religion, so far as I'm concerned, who am obviously not, Deo gratias, in any position from which to legitimately make such judgments.

John Zmirak is very, very good at the 'fried crickets' facets of the...

Catholic Faith, as he well demonstrates in this essay at InsideCatholic (and the last time I linked to one of his essays it was also because of a more or less similar exposition of how truly 'counter-cultural' Holy Church is); his political opinions will not engage the great masses of the vulgar perhaps but, pft, 'politics' is far less important than the media and the politicians would like us to believe.

"Love between Woody Allen and Mia Farrow in a script by Samuel Beckett"...

Almost, I borrowed the movie Webster Bull reviews at Il Sussidiario from Netflix, almost, although having read the review, probably won't; but I expect that it ("The Kids Are All Right") would be useful as a conversation starter, playing in the background, at the next party.

... Early in the film, the two teenage children conspire to contact their father, the sperm donor, and once they do so, a bond quickly forms among the three of them—father, daughter, son—that is the purest of all human bonds in the movie. (The bond between Bening’s and Moore’s characters is weak-to-nonexistent when it isn’t sado-masochistic.) The scenes of father-child interaction are the happiest in the film, the ones that truly touch the heart. If these two teenagers are any model, then children need a father. This is not my moralistic interpretation. This is precisely what the script by Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg says, as directed by Cholodenko....

One knows same sex couples with children, if not intimately, and of course one refrains from unnecessary judgments on the specifics of their lives: but, for Heaven's sake, even the Cholodenkos of the world can't help but contribute toward the vindication of Christian anthropology....

Update on Sunday, January 23, 2011 at 13:19 by Marc

Even I do have fond memories of The Who.

Are we ready for a film about Opus Dei's founder?

Creative Minority Report g. a.

Update on Sunday, November 7, 2010 at 12:46 by Marc

The movie and its production have a new site.

I don't know Michael Zak from Adam, but I think I have to...

Agree with him that this is a pretty chilling scary clip from the 1972 film version of Cabaret; nihil sub sole novum, indeed.

Never thought I would see the day..

But there is a movie about Duns Scotus in production. Where is the music in the audio from? sure I've heard that before.

The vale of my ignorance is wide and deep and long cultivated...

But I'm happy in this case to be enlightened.  Had no idea that Lorenzo's Oil was a movie I ought to have seen: I vaguely remember being put off it by the advertising.

A video of film shot just prior to the Great Earthquake in San Francisco...

Four days before, to be exact. I wonder if it is the age and appearance of the film, or the soundtrack, or both perhaps, that is putting Bill Morrison's Decasia in my mind?

'There Be Dragons' looks to be a film...

Worth seeing, by director Roland Joffe; I think of this because the Work's e.mail newsletter today included a sentence or two denying the more flamboyant interpretations of Opus Dei's involvement in the production (look at the 'Press Room' at the site linked) i.e. it's not involved at all, although individual members in their private capacity are.  Charles Dance, Derek Jacobi, Dougray Scott and then actors and actresses whose names I've never heard before or only seen in passing. 

(I haven't seen any of the best picture nominees, tsk....)

Well, my attempt to embed the Cracked video here failed, ahem; but the link ought to remain after clearing away the rest of the code. I think. G. Andrew Sullivan and Cracked.

A Trailer for Every Academy Award Winning Movie Ever