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For stories that ‘transcend daily life’: CIMA presents 23rd annual entertainment awards

23/10/2016 0 Comment

Auxiliary Bishop Robert Barron (from left), Archbishop José H. Gomez and Sister Rose Pacatte, FSP, are pictured during the 23rd annual CIMA Awards, where Bishop Barron received the CIMA Communicator Award. (photo/Victor Aléman)
These days, when many perceive heaven and Hollywood to be polar opposite, mutually exclusive destinations, it’s easy to forget that film and faith have the capacity to intersect in vital, remarkable ways. Catholics in Media Associates (CIMA) was founded in 1992 to serve a..

Watch: An Exclusive “Denial” Featurette

21/10/2016 0 Comment

Patheos is pleased to share an exclusive featurette for Denial that highlights the importance of interfaith dialogue in a world that seems to be increasingly divided.

Denial is based on Deborah E. Lipstadt’s book History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier. The movie portray’s Lipstadt’s (Rachel Weisz) legal battle against David Irving (Timothy Spall), who accused her of libel when she declared him a Holocaust denier. In her defense, her legal team actually had to prove the histor..

We’re All Fixer Uppers

20/10/2016 0 Comment

Comment countA confession: My wife and I watch HGTV’s Fixer Uppers, starring Chip and Joanna Gaines, whenever we can. We dig tinkering with our own house when budget and time allow, and I think both of us occasionally wish we lived in Waco, Texas, so we could get the advice of these home renovation experts.
Unlike a lot of folks on reality shows—particularly renovation shows—Chip and Joanna feel real. Their lines don’t feel scripted. Their interactions feel grounded in living life together. You ..

‘Tower’ film marks 50th anniversary of Texas school shooting

18/10/2016 0 Comment

Scene from “Tower,” with live action and rotoscopic animation. (Kino Lorber films)

Fifty years ago, on August 1, 1966, a 24-year-old sniper positioned himself on the observation deck of the Clock Tower overlooking the University of Texas, Austin. His name was Charles Joseph Whitman. He shot 49 people. 18 people died, including an unborn baby. Another victim died of complications of the shooting in 2001.

Meredith Vieira and Luke Wilson are among the executive producers of “Tower,” an award-winnin..

Why Is Everyone Scared of Clowns?

17/10/2016 0 Comment

Comment countWe’re all being attacked by clowns. People across the United States say they’re seeing red-nosed, white-faced Pennywises everywhere, lurking in parks, walking down streets and threatening to do more than stuff several of themselves into a car. The threat of clowns has become so severe that Target has removed some creepy clown masks from its shelves.
When I was a kid, clowns were generally thought to be, y’know, funny. But looking back, I was wasn’t immune to coulrophobia. Someone ha..

‘Priceless’ reveals impact of human trafficking

15/10/2016 0 Comment

(This film review is by guest blogger Sister Kathleen Bryant, RSC.)
Priceless is a suspense driven film raising a critical issue facing the world today. An ordinary man going about his own human struggles to be a good person is confronted with a choice, which transforms his life at quite a cost. Early on in the film, James, (Joel Smallbone), would rather not ask questions or know what “cargo” he is delivering. The film raises an important question for most of us who would rather not know who is ..

‘Killing Reagan’ lacks surprises, if you remember March 30, 1981

15/10/2016 0 Comment

Cynthia Nixon (as Nancy Reagan) and Tim Matheson (as Ronald Reagan) in “Killing Reagan” (National Geographic Channels/Hopper Stone, SMPSP)
It was October in Nashville during the run up to the 1980 U.S. presidential election between Republican candidate Ronald Reagan and Democratic incumbent Jimmy Carter. There is a stir in the crowd when a Secret Service agent spots a young man named John Hinckley Jr. (Kyle More) with a red backpack. He escapes but his suspicious behavior at the airport leads po..

Can a Christian Movie Win an Oscar?

07/10/2016 0 Comment

The Birth of a Nation hits theaters today, but it’s been in the news for nearly a year.

It made a show-stopping entrance at the Sundance Film Festival this January, earning raucous standing ovations and a titanic $17.5 million deal from Fox Searchlight. The film, dramatizing an 1831 slave rebellion led by Nat Turner, was immediately dubbed an Academy Award Best Picture front-runner—the perfect tonic to 2016’s still brewing #OscarsSoWhite controversy.

But then the film was hit with a..

Turner Classic Movies highlights trailblazing women in film for second year

06/10/2016 0 Comment

In case you haven’t noticed, classic films are “hot” right now, and not only with viewers who may have seen them in theaters 50 or 60 years ago. Turner Classic Movies is a broadcast and satellite channel that was launched on April 14, 1994, at 6 p.m., the 100th anniversary, to the minute, of the first public film showing in New York City (notwithstanding what the Lumière brothers might have to say about that). The first film broadcast on TCM was the 1939 ..

‘Birth of a Nation’ offers lots to talk about

03/10/2016 0 Comment

“Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever.” –Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson wrote these words in Paris in 1785, in his only full-length book, Notes on the State of Virginia. These same words are on the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C., and they open Nate Parker’s first film as a director and writer, “The Birth of a N..