American Idol & My Wife’s Death – my interview with Danny Gokey
Here’s Part 1 of my interview with american Idol’s Season 8 Finalist Danny Gokey on The INNdustry with Sr. Rose. He has a new book: “Hope in Front of Me: Find Purpose in Your Darkest Moments” that is...
View Article“War of the Worlds” the most famous invasion that never happened – 75th...
“War of the Worlds,” PBS American Experience 9 p.m. Eastern time Tuesday (Check local listings) In 1938, Americans might let their car payments go or give up their telephones, but 80 percent of...
View Article“The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”: my review on The Industry with Sr. Rose on...
Sister Rose reviews the second installment of The Hunger Games, released on November 22nd. Hear why the film “haunted” her days after seeing it. About “The INNdustry with Sister Rose”: The INNdustry...
View ArticleFROZEN offers lots to talk about (and it’s funny, too)
FROZEN is the new Disney musical animated film opening for Thanksgiving. There are may themes in the film that offer much to talk about with your kids. I am not sure if I mentioned how funny the...
View Article“Black Nativity”– my interviews with the cast, director and Bishop T. D. Jakes
I truly enjoyed this film. The story is built around the play written by the poet and writer Langston Hughes. inspiring with a BK rating (bring Kleenex). Black Nativity: The INNdustry with Sr. Rose on...
View ArticleIs it a good thing Pope Francis was named TIME’s Person of the Year?
Some time ago I was asked to be an expert contributor on film, TV and popular culture to ALETEIA news of the world from a Catholic perspective). Today one of the editor’s asked several contributors to...
View Article“Noah” my on camera review
Here’s my on camera review of NOAH on the INNdustry with Sister Rose. It goes along with my print review that you can read HERE at my blog with a link through to NCROnline.
View Article“John Wayne: the Life and Legend” review by Peter Bogdanovich
This morning’s New York Times Book Review section has a highly enthusiastic review of Scott Eyman’s new biography of John Wayne by director (and former journalist) Peter Bogdanovich: “”Playing John...
View ArticleNational Film Retreat 2014 announced
It’s been a couple of years since we have had the National Film Retreat and I am so happy to tell you all IT IS ON again – and we are going back to our roots in New Jersey! The first National...
View ArticleWhen the Game Stands Tall
Football coach Bob Ladouceur (Jim Caviezel) leads the De La Salle High School team of Concord, California, that has had an 11- season, 151-game winning streak (1992– 2003). As the team prepares to go...
View ArticleAnimals take it all in family-friendly ‘Russell Madness’
“Russell Madness” will be released direct to DVD on Tuesday, March 10. The film comes from the kid and family friendly imagination of Robert Vince and Anna McRoberts who brought us the “Air Bud” and...
View Article‘The True Cross’ airs this Sunday in “Finding Jesus: Faith, Fact, Forgery”...
“The True Cross” airs this Sunday in “Finding Jesus: Faith, Fact, Forgery” The latest episode in CNN’s “Finding Jesus: Faith, Fact, Forgery” is a fairly interesting examination of purported relics of...
View Article‘Killing Jesus’ is remarkable but doesn’t give the whole picture
8 p.m./7 p.m. Central, Sunday, March 29 National Geographic Channel “Killing Jesus” airs Sunday on the National Geographic Channel. It is written by Oscar- and Emmy-winner Walon Green and based on...
View Article‘METALHEAD’ is a Good Friday film with an Easter ending
Out of Iceland comes an extraordinary story of grief and understanding, violence and forgiveness, isolation and community, family and church, despair and hope, art and grace. Hera Karlsdottir is about...
View Article‘A.D. The Bible Continues’ kicks off with a familiar story
“A.D. The Bible Continues” Premieres 9 p.m./8 p.m. Central, Sunday, April 5, NBC The NBC website for this new miniseries on the New Testament says: “The epic story picks up where ‘The Bible’ left...
View ArticleNeither faith nor magic saves ‘Little Boy’ from its muddled message
I imagine that the writers of “Little Boy,” Pepe Portillo and Alejandro Monteverde, who also directs, wanted to make a sweet film about faith and the love between a father and his son. They surely...
View Article‘The Messengers’ is like a Christian zombie movie for the small screen
The rapture is coming — again. A new television series, “The Messengers,” premieres at 9 p.m./8 p.m. Central today, April 17, on The CW because “the wheels of Revelation have begun to turn.” The end...
View Article‘Flannery O’Connor: Faith Fired by Fiction’ my book review
“Flannery O’Connor: Fiction Fired by Faith” By Angela Alaimo O’Donnell Liturgical Press, 2015 Paperback, 138 pages $12.95 My copy of “Flannery O’Connor: Fiction Fired by Faith” by Fordham...
View Article‘Jurassic World’– No dinosaurs with pink feathers, but questionable ethics
Below is the feature article I wrote on the science and philosophy in “Jurassic World” but I want to add a couple of things. First, the engineering science of Dallas Bryce Howard’s high heeled shoes...
View Article‘Batkid Begins’ – a wish with a life of its own
As news of the terrible shootings at the AME Church in Charleston, S.C., broke Wednesday, a couple hundred people were gathered at the Landmark Theater on Pico Blvd. in Los Angeles for the premiere of...
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