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TV Picks July 13-19, 2008
BY Daniel J. Engler
July 13-19, 2008 Issue 
All Times Eastern
SUNDAY,
10:30 p.m.
Air Group 16:
We Came to Remember
PBS This half-hour
documentary joins veterans of Air Group 16, who served on the aircraft carrier
U.S.S. Lexington in World War II, as they hold their final reunion and attend
the dedication of the National World War II... READ MORE
tV Picks July 6-12, 2008
BY Daniel J. Engler
July 6-12, 2008 Issue
DAILY, 3 p.m.
Chaplet of Divine Mercy
CATHOLICTV Jesus told St. Faustina in the 1930s, “My heart
overflows with great mercy for souls, and especially for poor sinners … [I]t is
for them that the blood and water flowed from my heart as from a fount
overflowing with mercy. For them I dwell in... READ MORE
DVD Picks & Passes
BY Steven D. Greydanus
July 6-12, 2008 Issue
The Mummy (1932) — Pick
Bean: The Movie/Mr.
Bean’s Holiday (1997/2007) — Pick
This week, mummy movies hit DVD new
release shelves, hoping to ride the coattails of Brendan Fraser’s third
big-screen mummy adventure (opening Aug. 1).
Fraser’s The
Mummy (1999) and The Mummy... READ MORE
R2D2, Eat Your Diode Out
BY STEVEN D. GREYDANUS You’ve Never Met a Robot — or a Film — With a Heart Like Wall-E’s
July 6-12, 2008 Issue
In a barren
wasteland of endless towers and canyons of refuse, a single creature stirs: a
small robot chugging tirelessly about, almost imperceptibly bringing order out
of disorder. His boxy body is a portable trash compactor into which he scoops
load after load of the sea of trash stretching in... READ MORE
DVD Picks and Passes
BY Steven D. Greydanus
June 29 - July 5, 2008 Issue
Be Kind Rewind (2008)
The Man Who Shot
Liberty Valance / Shane (1962/1953)
Recently
released on DVD, Michel Gondry’s Be Kind Rewind is as
kind-hearted and nostalgic as its name suggests. Centered on an old-fashioned
neighborhood video-rental shop (that’s video as in VHS videotape), Be
Kind... READ MORE
Look Ma — No Joystick!
BY THOMAS L. MCDONALD Wii Fit Gets Gamers off the Couch and Moving
June 29 - July 5, 2008 Issue
With the Wii,
Nintendo is trying to shatter the image of the gamer as a glassy-eyed youth
grimly gripping a controller, moving nary a muscle save for the thumbs.
The system’s user-friendly design
and appealing content is drawing all kinds of people — gamers and non-gamers,
young and old.... READ MORE
TV Picks June 29- July 5, 2008
BY Daniel J. Engler
June 29 - July 5, 2008 Issue
All Times Eastern
DAILY
Catholic TV Shows
CatholicTV Run by
Boston Catholic Television and carried by Sky Angel, Comcast and other outlets,
this station provides 24-hour Catholic programming across the United States
every day, from Holy Mass (weekdays 9:30 a.m., 7:30 p.m.) to the Rosary,... READ MORE
DVD Picks & Passes
BY Steven D. Greydanus
June 22-28, 2008 Issue
The Spiderwick
Chronicles (2008)
Caramel (2007)
New this week
on DVD, The Spiderwick Chronicles is a smart, scary
fantasy family thriller that offers depth and meaning in a genre littered with
mere competent entertainment. Where films like Zathura
and Night at the Museum offer... READ MORE
Abracadabra, Catholics!
BY MATTHEW LICKONA A ‘Gospel Magician’ Wows and Witnesses
June 22-28, 2008 Issue
“Then
Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did as the Lord had commanded. Aaron threw
his staff down before Pharaoh and his servants, and it was changed into a
snake. Pharaoh, in turn, summoned wise men and sorcerers, and they also, the
magicians of Egypt, did likewise by their magic arts. Each... READ MORE
TV Picks June 22-28, 2008
BY Daniel J. Engler
June 22-28, 2008 Issue
SUNDAY,
8 p.m.
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
ABC Erik and Vicki
Swenson-Lee of Minnetonka, Minn., parents of four, have taken in the four
orphaned children of Vicki’s murdered sister Teri. Now they receive a home
large enough for all the kids, built by the makeover crew and... READ MORE
DVD Picks and Passes
BY Steven D. Greydanus
June 15-21, 2008 Issue
The Sword in the
Stone (1963)
Jungle Book 2 (2003)
This week
Disney rereleases two middling adaptations to DVD. One is worth catching; the
other, not so much.
Loosely
based on the first part of T.H. White’s classic Arthurian opus The Once and
Future King, Disney’s The Sword in the Stone is... READ MORE
TV Picks June15-21, 2008
BY Daniel J. Engler
June 15-21, 2008 Issue
All Times Eastern
SUNDAY, 8 p.m.
Nature:
Silence of the Bees
PBS
This documentary investigates “colony collapse disorder” — why many bee colonies
in the United States and elsewhere have been dying out. We need bees because
their function as pollinators keeps about a third of our fibers,... READ MORE
St. Joseph’s Blog Army
BY ERIC SCHESKE Father’s Day in the Blogosphere
June 15-21, 2008 Issue
Two fathers, two legacies. Father One: Celebrity
intellectual and author toasted throughout Europe. Wrote on many topics,
including child-rearing, though children interested him little in real life.
Not married to the wife of his five children. Abandoned all five babies to an
orphanage where 80% of... READ MORE
TV Picks June 8-14, 2008
BY Daniel J. Engler
June 8-14, 2008 Issue
All Times Eastern
SUNDAY, 8 p.m.
Nature:
Snowflake:
The
White Gorilla
PBS
After locals in Equatorial Guinea killed his parents in 1967, “Snowflake,” an
albino western lowland gorilla, was brought to Barcelona. Before he died in
2003, studies of Snowflake and his companion Muni helped... READ MORE
Kick It!
BY Steven D. Greydanus Kung Fu Panda Has the Chops - and Real Heart, Too
June 8-14, 2008 Issue
Kung-fu
fighting cartoon animals actually makes a lot of sense if you stop and think
about it. After all, lots of kung fu movies are basically live-action cartoons
anyway (not to mention the actual animé cartoons). Plus, a lot of kung fu is
inspired by animals, from the “Five Animals”... READ MORE
DVD Picks & Passes
BY Steven D. Greydanus
June 8-14, 2008 Issue
A Panda is Born/Baby Panda's First Year (2005) - Pick
High Noon-Special Edition (1952) - Pick
Cannily timed to take advantage of this weekend’s
big-screen Panda-monium (I can’t believe I stooped to that) is the DVD release
of a pair of Animal Planet documentaries, A Panda Is Born and Baby... READ MORE
Some Games Are Better Left Unplayed
BY Thomas L. McDonald 2 New Offerings Show the Medium at Its Best and Worst
June 1-7, 2008 Issue
here is no such thing as a moral or an
immoral book,” Oscar Wilde writes at the beginning of Dorian Gray. “Books are
well written, or badly written. That is all.”
Wilde preached that ethics are irrelevant in art, but he didn’t
practice it.
Instead of ending the book an unrepentant sinner,... READ MORE
TV Picks June 1-7, 2008
BY Daniel J. Engler
June 1-7, 2008 Issue
All Times Eastern
VARIOUS
Weekly
Roman Observer
Familyland TV At 10 a.m. Mondays, 2:30 a.m. Tuesdays
and 11 p.m. Thursdays, hear reliably reported news about the Pope and the
Church, direct from Rome.
VARIOUS
Pledge
Week Shows
PBS
Among the new specials this week: Songstress Vickie Carr hosts... READ MORE
Raiders of The Lost Franchise
BY STEVEN D. GREYDANUS Indiana Jones Returns in Paint-by-Number Style
May 25-31, 2008 Issue
Like the Paramount logo mountain peak in the now-famous
opening dissolve that started it all nearly three decades ago, Raiders of the
Lost Ark towers over the surrounding landscape. My friend and fellow critic
Jeff Overstreet considers it the greatest action movie of all time, and I tend
to agree.... READ MORE
DVD Picks & Passes
BY Steven Greydanus
May 25-31, 2008 Issue
The Thief of Bagdad (1940) Pick
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Blu-Ray
Edition) (2003) Pick
New this week from the Criterion Collection, The Thief of
Bagdad is a beloved family-adventure standard, though not quite as charming or
as magical as the original silent classic starring... READ MORE
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