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Perhaps the most beloved of Christmas movies, Frank Capra’s sleeper classic
It’s a Wonderful Life has inevitably become a target of seasonal, iconoclastic culture-warmongering.
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Les Misérables in 60 seconds: my “Reel Faith” review (plus product notes).
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Hyde Park on Hudson in 60 seconds: my “Reel Faith” review.
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey in 60 seconds: my “Reel Faith” review.
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There is an early moment in
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey that captures the evocative poetry of Tolkien’s songs — something that
The Lord of the Rings films, for all their achievements, never did. By the time the credits roll, that moment feels like it belonged in a very different film.
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This week I’ll be all over Catholic media talking about
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey:
EWTN’s “
The World Over Live” with Raymond Arroyo, “
Catholic Answers Live” with Patrick Coffin, and our own “
Reel Faith” with my co-host David DiCerto. (Pay attention and you may catch me on “
Kresta in the Afternoon” at some point too.)
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Hitchcock in 60 seconds: my “Reel Faith” review.
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Anna Karenina in 60 seconds: my “Reel Faith” review.
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Life of Pi in 60 seconds: my “Reel Faith” review.
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Skyfall in 60 seconds: my “Reel Faith” review.
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Flight in 60 seconds: my “Reel Faith” review.
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Wreck-It Ralph in 60 seconds: my “Reel Faith” review.
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Steven Spielberg’s masterful
Lincoln might more accurately have been called
The 13th Amendment — and while the choice of the more marketable title is easy to understand, the more crucial decision to limit the scope of the film to the last few months of Lincoln’s life, and to focus less on Lincoln himself than on the political machinations of bringing about his most enduring legal legacy, must have been harder to make.
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This week I’m making a foray from my diaconal semi-hiatus from film reviewing, with new written and material and broadcast appearances — including the return of “
Reel Faith”!
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One of the more striking marks of Pixar’s innovative stature and impact on the world of Hollywood animation has been their pioneering revival of the long-neglected animated short film prior to the feature (at least prior to animated features) as an industry staple.
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The fact-based premise is almost enough to sell
Argo by itself.
Argo opens and closes as a tense political spy caper, but it’s also an affectionate send-up of the movie-making process. The old advice to writers to “write what you know” is applicable to movies about movies, from
Singin’ in the Rain to
The Artist, and few subjects inspire Hollywood — or appeal to movie fans and film critics — more reliably than Hollywood itself.
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Frankenweenie, Burton’s best film in years, is available in a number of editions: four-disc Blu-ray/DVD combo with 3-D Blu-ray and digital copy; 2-disc Blu-ray/DVD combo, and 1-disc DVD.
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Looper in 60 seconds: my “Reel Faith” review.
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Hotel Transylvania in 60 seconds: my “Reel Faith” review.
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Finding Nemo in 60 seconds: my “Reel Faith” review.
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This Friday, September 28 I'll be appearing on the first hour of “
Catholic Answers Live” (6pm–7pm EDT).
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The greatest action-adventure movie of all time is now available on Blu-ray. For now, of course, you can’t just buy
Raiders of the Lost Ark; you have to get the 5-disc boxed set “Indiana Jones: The Complete Adventures.”
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If you see only one James Cameron-directed movie about the
Titanic —
and you should — see the one that
doesn’t star Kate and Leo.
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(New review for 3-D rerelease) Andrew Stanton’s
Finding Nemo is the best father-son story in all of Hollywood animation, and maybe animation generally. It’s also a stunningly gorgeous film that exploits the potential of computer animation like no film before it and few films after it.
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Our new arrival, Matthew, is going on a month old, and he’s learning a lot about the world. One of the things he’s learning is that when Papa holds him, it’s not delicious like with Mama —but Papa sings songs, which seems to interest him. Suz says that when he’s not hungry he seems to prefer to be held by Papa, which may have as much to do with my patented rocking hold technique as my crooning, but I like to think the crooning helps too.
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Everything is always changing, but August 2012 will go down as a month of particularly momentous milestones for the Greydanus family—some of which will have repercussions on my life and work, including my film review work, for many years to come.
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Why does stop-motion animation work so well as a medium for the macabre, from
The Nightmare Before Christmas to
Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride to
Coraline?
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ParaNorman in 60 seconds: my “Reel Faith” review.
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Hard to believe 12 weeks has gone by, but the 2012 summer season finale of “Reel Faith” is upon us. David and I review
The Odd Life of Timothy Green,
ParaNorman,
Hope Springs and more (
watch NET live). You can also still catch our penultimate episode, covering
The Bourne Legacy,
Total Recall and more at the
show’s website.
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Last week, as anticipated in my “
Where I am” post, my lady Suz and I welcomed our seventh child, Matthew Richard, into our happy, hugger-mugger family life … This week, our eldest is leaving us, at least for now. Sarah Elisabeth, who was only five when I began Decent Films 12 years ago, is college bound.
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