This Friday, February 10 I'll be appearing on the first hour of “
Catholic Answers Live” (6pm–7pm EDT).
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Thanks to my friend
Mark Shea of Catholic and Enjoying It! for including my work here at Decent Films among his “
Ten must-see web resources for Catholics” for
Our Sunday Visitor.
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Teens & Up
For
Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe, who stars as a young solicitor named Arthur Kipps,
The Woman in Black is an opportunity to make a reasonably graceful break from the role that has dominated his life since childhood. For the new owners of England’s legendary Hammer horror brand, until recently dormant from the 1970s, it’s an opportunity to stake their claim to continuing in the tradition of Terence Fisher, Jimmy Sangster et al. For curious movie watchers, it’s an opportunity to see how Radcliffe does in another role — and how an old-fashioned haunted house story plays today.
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An intriguing question posed to me in another forum: “Who is the worst Disney villain? Mother Gothel in
Tangled is
bad (kidnapping, brainwashing). The evil Queen from
Snow White?”
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Here’s my 30-second review of
The Ides of March, now on home video (somehow I neglected to post it before, so here it is).
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