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Movie News

The appearance of yet another film version of F. Scott FitzgeraldƵapp The Great Gatsby provides the occasion for reflecting on what many consider the great American novel.

Dallaire a voice for the children

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Canadian Senator Roméo Dallaire asks Anzoyo Tsukia, “Is Joseph Kony the devil incarnate?” A rosary hanging from her neck, she replies that Kony looks normal but everything he does is diabolical.

Still life in old bones

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After more than six decades of marriage, love looks like Craig Morrison caring for his ailing wife Irene in Michael McGowanƵapp Still Mine. But this isn’t your typical sob story about aging.

42 inspires

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To paraphrase the title of an earlier movie about the national pastime, hate strikes out in the historical drama 42 (Warner Bros.) Writer-director Brian Helgeland's uplifting — if sometimes heavy-handed — film recounts the 1947 reintegration of professional baseball after decades of segregated play.

Canadians aid Caritas Niger in turning A New Leaf for the fight against severe drought

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There was severe hardship but no famine in West Africa last year. Crops failed, locusts and other insects consumed farmers’ fields and at least 18 million people suffered through a food shortage.

Les Misérables show how love overpowers death

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On Christmas day a film adaptation of Victor HugoƵapp book Les Miserables made its debut in theatres. Though Hugo had a less than perfectly benign view of the Catholic Church, his masterpiece is, from beginning to end, conditioned by a profoundly Christian worldview. It is most important that, amidst all of the “Les Miz” hoopla, the spiritual heart of HugoƵapp narrative not be lost.

Year of Faith cinema

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In Porta Fidei (The Door of Faith), an apostolic letter announcing the Year of Faith, Pope Benedict XVI urges us to study the history of Catholicism, which he describes as “marked by the unfathomable mystery of the interweaving of holiness and sin.”

The Hobbit and its Gospel ethics

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Like Star Wars, The Divine Comedy and Moby Dick, J.R.R. TolkienƵapp The Hobbit is the story of a heroƵapp journey. This helps to explain, of course, why, like those other narratives, it has proved so perennially compelling.

Zero Dark Thirty 

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Zero Dark Thirty (Columbia) offers moviegoers a challenging account, based on real events, of the decade-long hunt for terrorist leader Osama bin Laden.

Les Misérables makes the transition from stage to screen

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Once thought unfilmable, the musical classic of Les Misérables has transcended the stage onto the silver screen.