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Reviews
Movie & Television Reviews Movie Review: ‘Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale’ John Mulderig September 5
Movie & Television Reviews
Movie Review: ‘Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale’
John Mulderig
September 5, 2025
4 min read
Both the upstairs and
Movie & Television Reviews Movie Review: ‘The Conjuring: Last Rites’ Kurt Jensen September 5, 2025 4
Movie & Television Reviews
Movie Review: ‘The Conjuring: Last Rites’
Kurt Jensen
September 5, 2025
4 min read
The knockabout mix of demonology
The Secrets of My Neighbor Totoro
Is Totoro really about courage, faith, and family? Bold claim: no villain, still gripping. Patrick Mason, Victor Lams, and Jeff Haecker debate Catbus magic, Shinto notes, and dub vs. sub.
The post The Secrets of My Neighbor Totoro appeared first on StarQuest Media.
Another bad week for children
It was another very bad week for children – killed by adults in Gaza, Ukraine and Minneapolis. The coverage was dispiriting, and anyone trying to deny the existence of evil in the world must have been sorely challenged. When I first heard of the Minneapolis school shooting, I was
Varying versions of the Kingdom of God
I recently wrote about the clergy in 1940s films. Gregory Peck played a liberal Scottish priest in Keys of the Kingdom in 1944. The film was based on A.J. Cronin’s 1941 novel centering on the efforts of one Fr Francis Chisholm (Peck) to open people’s eyes to the wider
Songs of a Troubled Troubadour
Mystical Crooner: The Lives of Leonard Cohen,
by Aubrey Malone
(Wisdom Twins Books / Lulu.com, £15.99)
This book by our film critic provides an engaging overview of the complicated career of the Canadian poet, novelist and singer, “a charismatic Jew from Montreal’s French Quarter”. These contending identities
What we really know about St Patrick
Discovering St Patrick,
by Thomas O’Loughlin
(Darton, Longman & Todd, €15.00 / £10.95)
St Patrick is universally identified with Ireland and the Irish. St Patrick’s Day is one of those few festivals that are celebrated around the world, so much so that it has become more of a
From prehistory to today, Ireland’s unusual places have tales to tell
Ireland’s Curious Places: 100 fascinating, lesser-known treasures to discover,
by Michael Fewer
(Gill Books, €16.99 / £14.99)
Irish Fairy Forts: Portals to the Past,
by Jo Kerrigan and Richard Mills
(O’Brien Books, €19.99 / £17.99)
What with the effects of climate change and the rising objections to
Arts & CultureNewsWorld News Catholic singer’s Marian journey through psalms brought award-winning s
Arts & CultureNewsWorld News
Catholic singer’s Marian journey through psalms brought award-winning song, joy after infertility
Lauretta Brown
September 1, 2025
6 min read
Friar behind ‘Rosary in a Year’ explores Jesus Christ’s ‘blueprint’ in the beatitudes
(OSV News) — After climbing the podcast charts with “Rosary in a Year,” Father Mark-Mary Ames of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal recently released “Eight Promises of God: Discovering Hope Through the Beatitudes,” a book that he hopes will encourage people to see “the beauty and the gift that the
Movie & Television Reviews Movie Review: ‘Caught Stealing’ Kurt Jensen August 29, 2025 4 min read Pr
Movie & Television Reviews
Movie Review: ‘Caught Stealing’
Kurt Jensen
August 29, 2025
4 min read
Practically everyone is quirky and philosophical, and
Miracles and milestones
In the coming week we’ll be hearing a lot about Blessed Carlo Acutis, the young Catholic due to be canonised on Sunday, September 7, along with Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati – see programmes in Pick of the Week. Songs of Praise (BBC One, Sunday) devoted a programme to miracles,
Gripping rite of passage parable from novice director
Christy (15A) is an unflinching portrait of a 17-year-old reject from the foster care system struggling to get some stability into his life in a working-class district of North Cork. It oozes authenticity from every pore. You won’t catch anyone acting here. Christy (Daniel Power) is staying with his
Letter from France – Reflections on the state of faith in “the Church’s oldest daughter”
Notre-Dame de Paris,
by Victor Hugo, newly translated from the French with an introduction by John Sturrock
(Penguin Classics, €13.99)
After its formal reopening at the end of last year, Notre Dame cathedral in Paris this summer returned, after those dark years of closure, to its place as
Flannery O’Connor’s ‘terrifying’ vision of modernity
No One Was Paying Any Attention to the Sky: Flannery O’Connor and Modernity,
by Damian Ference
(Wiseblood books, US$11.00 / €9.50)
Flannery O’Connor was a remarkable writer, who was born and passed her short life in the state of Georgia, a region beset by its “Southern Gothic” heritage, a
‘Warren recalls baptising people by the dozen’
Drawn not Driven: Pilgrim of Life’s Beckonings,
by Warren Ford
(Red Feather Publishing, 2025).
This is a fascinating autobiography, a wide ranging account of an Australian .
The author, Warren Ford, was born in Western Australia on 23 January 1942. He attended the elementary convent school of St
Antidote to the digital revolution: Carlo Acutis: Roadmap to Reality
I have long been proud of my kids for having spontaneously decided, many years ago, to give up all video games every Lent, except on Sunday afternoons and on any solemnities. Carlo Acutis, though, was next level. At eight years old, he was given a PlayStation console — and he
“Not I, But God”: Interview with Carlo Acutis: Roadmap to Reality director Tim Moriarty
“I think the idea that Carlo was simply just this digital online saint is a disservice to who he was. His life was spent off screens, really encountering the world and loving the world and loving Christ. The digital stuff was really just a means of sharing that love.”
Movie & Television Reviews Home viewing roundup: What’s available to stream and what’s on horizon Jo
Movie & Television Reviews
Home viewing roundup: What’s available to stream and what’s on horizon
John Mulderig
August 27, 2025
6 min read
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