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Tuesday, June 22, 2010
By Megan Sweas
The Vatican's paper has moved up to the 1970s with its cultural critiques, saying that The Blues Brothers is a Catholic classic. It's all part of L'Osservatore Romano's efforts to be more relevant.
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District 9

Monday, August 24, 2009
By goodwink
District 9
Directed by Neill Blomkamp (Key Creatives, 2009) Two very different sci-fi films opened and closed Hollywood's Summer blockbuster season this year. The new Star Trek (Paramount Pictures, 2009) got things off with a bang in May, and District 9 (Key Creatives, 2009) is winding things down with a bit of a whimper this August.
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Up

Friday, August 14, 2009
By goodwink
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Directed by Pete Docter (Pixar, 2009) Ask anybody under 30 and they will tell you that Pixar is the animation studio. But the company that has stunned us with now 10 lush and dazzling computer animated films is also the studio that tells stories from the margins, putting a sympathetic (if not human) face on a menagerie of aliens, freaks, and monsters.
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Is The Stoning of Soraya M. a Catholic movie?

Wednesday, July 1, 2009
By Megan Sweas
The Stoning of Soraya M., which came out in selected cities this past weekend, was produced by Catholic Stephen McEveety, who also produced The Passion of the Christ. It’s based on a true story from a book by the same name, about a woman who is unjustly stoned in a small Iranian village.
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Sunshine Cleaning

Monday, June 15, 2009
By goodwink
Sunshine Cleaning
Directed by Christine Jeffs and Megan Holley (Overture Films, 2009)
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More movie news

Monday, February 23, 2009
By Megan Sweas
The value of The Reader is debatable (see previous post and Bryan's insight in the comment and post your own opinion there), but there are plenty of movies that try to offer some spiritual or moral lesson. Beliefnet presents the lessons we can take from 11 Oscar films, or you can read U.S. Catholic's movie reviews, which include many of the winners and nominees.
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Reel politics

Friday, January 9, 2009
By goodwink
Reel politics
Hollywood tells us that cleaning up Washington depends on the integrity of those we send there. But that’s only part of the story.
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Twilight's morality, or lack thereof

Monday, December 1, 2008
By Megan Sweas
Twilight is getting attacked from all sides, but that hasn't stopped vampire-loving teenage girls from devouring the book and movie. Some praise the book and movie as a morality tale. Author Stephanie Meyers is Mormon and brought her faith into the story by having the couple--human Bella and vampire Edward--refrain from sex before marriage.
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Happy endings?

Tuesday, October 21, 2008
By Megan Sweas
Does every “Christian” movie have to have a happy ending, with all the characters prayers to God answered and the meaning of life revealed?
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