Movie Reviews by and for Catholics
Directed by Edward Zwick
Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Hounsou, and Jennifer Connelly
This is Africa
Blood Diamond is stirring, old-fashioned filmmaking. It tells a worthy story on an epic scale, crammed with mega movie stars, majestic scenery, memorable characters, and capitol “T” Themes.
For a movie that wears its social conscience on its sleeve, Blood Diamond never neglects little [...]
Posted in Drama, Historical on Aug 21st, 2007
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
Starring Ryan O’Neal and Marisa Berenson
The Northwest Film Center in Portland, Oregon is currently hosting a Stanley Kubrick retrospective at the Portland Art Museum. The series offers eager fans a unique opportunity to chart Kubrick’s development as a director, as well as to see some of his lesser-known films on the big [...]
After the Oscar-bait double-whammy of Gangs of New York (2002) and The Aviator (2004), Scorsese finally captured the coveted golden boy with The Departed. I’m glad he won for a movie that is vintage Scorsese—unrelentingly violent, foul-mouthed, testosterone-addled, and shot through with Catholicism at its most compromised and fallen—as opposed to one of his more [...]
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