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DVD Picks & Passes 12.07.2008
BY STEVEN D. GREYDANUS
December 7-13, 2008 Issue 
Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! (2008) -Pick
The Dark Knight (2008) -Pick
Man on Wire (2008) -Pick
A banner week
for DVD releases! Three of the year’s best films hit shelves this week,
including one of the best family films, one of the best films for mature
viewers, and one somewhere in... READ MORE
TV Picks 12.07.2008
BY Daniel J. Engler
December 7-13, 2008 Issue
VARIOUS
Christmas Cartoon Specials
ABC, CBS In A Charlie Brown Christmas
(1965) at 8 p.m. Monday on ABC, little Linus reminds his fellow “Peanuts” comic
strip characters Who Christmas is really all about by reciting the Nativity
story from the Gospel of St. Luke. In Frosty the Snowman
(1969)... READ MORE
Messiaen’s Work ‘Like Incense Rising’
Musical World Observes Birth Centenary of a Catholic Mystic
December 7-13, 2008 Issue
Dec. 10 marks
the 100th anniversary of the birth of French
composer and organist Olivier Messiaen.
Messiaen,
a Catholic and a mystic, composed musical works with titles such as “The
Celestial Banquet,” “Apparition of the Eternal Church” and “The Ascension.”
Register
news editor John... READ MORE
TV Picks 11.30.2008
BY Daniel J. Engler
November 30-December 6, 2008 Issue
All Times Eastern
VARIOUS
Pledge
Week Specials
PBS
Check your local listings for specials this week such as Great
Performances: Domingo, Netrebko & Villazon, Three Stars in Vienna,
with operetta passages from soprano Anna Netrebko, tenors Placido Domingo and
Rolando Villazon and the Vienna Radio... READ MORE
DVD Picks & Passes
BY Steven D. Greydanus
November 30-December 6, 2008 Issue
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Casablanca (1942)
New on DVD, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
goes beyond its 2005 predecessor, The Lion, the Witch and the
Wardrobe, both in visual spectacle and revisionistic liberties.
The
plot of... READ MORE
Now You’re With the Band
BY THOMAS L. McDONALD Music Games Come of Age
November 30-December 6, 2008 Issue
Guitar games
have been burning up the charts ever since Harmonix unleashed “Guitar Hero”
three years ago. With its little plastic guitar controller and simple gameplay
set to a soundtrack of familiar rock hits, “Guitar Hero” unleashed the awesome
power of a million air guitarists upon the... READ MORE
Getting to the Hart of the Matter
BY Amy Smith Life Inspires Singer-Songwriter Sarah Hart’s Craft
November 23-29, 2008 Issue
It’s been some kind of year for singer-songwriter
Sarah Hart. With performances last month at the ninth an--nual United Catholic
Mu-sic and Video Association’s Unity Awards in New Orleans and at World Youth
Day last summer in Sydney, and another coming up next month at the National
Catholic... READ MORE
DVD Picks & Passes 11.23.2008
BY Steven D. Greydanus
November 23-29, 2008 Issue
Clare and Francis (2007) - Pick
John XXIII: The Pope of Peace (2002) - Pick
New on DVD,
Ignatius Press has added two new Italian TV miniseries to their growing library
of saint (and beatified) biopics from Lux Vide and other companies.
Clare and Francis is
Ignatius’ second Italian import on... READ MORE
TV Picks November 23-29, 2008
BY Daniel J. Engler
November 23-29, 2008 Issue
SUNDAY,
9 p.m.
Unsolved History: Aztec Temple
MILITARY CHANNEL The
Great Temple stood 197 feet high (12 stories) in the central plaza of
Tenochtitlan, the capital city of the Aztec Empire (today’s Mexico City). It
was the scene of countless human sacrifices. Excavations from 1978 to 1987
showed... READ MORE
DVD Picks & Passes 11.16.2008
BY Steven D. Greydanus
November 16-22, 2008 Issue
Wall-E (2008)
Shaun the Sheep
— Off the Baa (2007)
This week, here it is: the latest
masterpiece from the mad geniuses at Pixar; a family film like no other and one
of the year’s best films, period.
Part silent comedy-romance, part
awestruck sci-fi fable, part Swiftian satire of mass-media... READ MORE
The Family That Plays Music Together …
BY Iain Bernhoft L’Angélus Celebrates Faith and Family With a Cajun Flavor
November 16-22, 2008 Issue
The tolling of the Angelus bells before noon
Mass encapsulates a moment of music bringing families together: It is a call to
young and old alike to cease from labor and turn together toward God.
This notion of families gathering in faith
deeply informs the music of L’Angélus, a zesty... READ MORE
DVD Picks & Passes 11.09.2008
BY Steven D. Greydanus
November 9-15, 2008 Issue
Sabrina (1954)
Roman Holiday (1953)
The General (1926)
This week, three classics come to DVD in must-have
two-disc editions newly restored and loaded with extras.
Two of these, released a year apart
and both starring Audrey Hepburn, are inaugural films for Paramount’s new
“Centennial... READ MORE
From Poor Taste to Propaganda
BY STEVEN D. GREYDANUS Madagascar 2: Escape 2 Africa
November 9-15, 2008 Issue
Released 10
years after Pixar’s pioneering Toy Story, the first
fully computer-animated feature film, DreamWorks Animation’s 2005 entry Madagascar
is a credible contender for the dubious distinction of being the first truly
lame computer-animated cartoon (if you don’t count the lame but... READ MORE
TV Picks November 9-15, 2008
BY Daniel J. Engler
November 9-15, 2008 Issue
VARIOUS
Discernment of Spirits
CATHOLIC TV
At 12:30 p.m. Mondays, 7:30 a.m. Tuesdays, 11:30 a.m. Wednesdays, 3:30 p.m.
Fridays and 1 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Sundays, Father Tim Gallagher of the Oblates
of the Virgin Mary, a spiritual director and retreat master, presents St.
Ignatius Loyola’s 14 rules... READ MORE
DVD Picks & Passes 11.02.2008
BY Steven D. Greydanus
November 2-8, 2008 Issue
Kung Fu Panda (2008)
The Wild Parrots of
Telegraph Hill (2004)
The Little Rascals:
The Complete Collection (1938)
New this week on DVD, Kung Fu Panda
is one of the year’s best cartoons, a solid family flick and a pretty good kung
fu movie.
Jack
Black voices Po, a noodle-dishing panda in... READ MORE
TV Picks November 2-8, 2008
BY Daniel J. Engler
November 2-8, 2008 Issue
DAILY
The Little Flower
CATHOLICTV “The only
way I can prove my love is by scattering flowers, and these flowers are every
little sacrifice, every glance and word, and the doing of the least actions for
love.” So wrote St. Thérèse of Lisieux (1873-1897), the Carmelite sister who
promised... READ MORE
Review: Morality and Bioethics in a Violent Video Game
BY THOMAS L. McDONALD
November 2-8, 2008 Issue
Games are a
flexible medium, capable of everything from the mildest momentary diversion, to
complex simulations of reality, to profound narratives that blend storytelling
with interactive elements.
All too rarely, a game like
“BioShock” comes along to show us that the medium is capable of... READ MORE
DVD Picks & Passes 10.26.2008
BY Steven D. Greydanus This week’s DVD releases include two okay family flicks: one emphatically for the girls, one emphatically for the boys.
October 26-November 1, 2008 Issue
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
is a charming, wholesome, old-fashioned story celebrating perseverance amid
misfortune, humility and courage in the face of diminished circumstances, and
solidarity with social outcasts and others less fortunate. That it represents
the world of a high-end... READ MORE
TV Picks Oct.19-Nov.1, 2008
BY Daniel J. Engler
October 26-November 1, 2008 Issue
VARIOUS
P. Allen Smith Gardens
CATHOLIC FAMILYLAND At
1:30 p.m. Tuesdays, 5:30 p.m. Wednesdays and 2:30 p.m. Saturdays, these
half-hour shows present how-to garden projects, interviews with expert
gardeners, from-the-garden recipes, and garden decorating and travel ideas.
SUNDAY,
9 p.m.
Into... READ MORE
Return From the Valley of Tears
BY STEVEN D. GREYDANUS Stranded a Powerful Tale of What It Means to Be Human
October 26-November 1, 2008 Issue
Survival is
not the supreme value, but it has a unique power to put other values into
perspective.
We say, too often and unthinkingly,
that we would “rather die” than do this or that. It is a salutary thing not to
fear death, but there is nothing salutary about trivializing the precious... READ MORE
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