“The Labyrinth” filmmaker profile Fr. Schmidt: Grandfather/priest/filmmaker’s...
Caption: Marian Kolodziej’s artwork offers disturbing images of life in Auschwitz. “These are words locked in drawings,” he noted. “It is a rendering of honor to all those who have vanished in ashes.”...
View Article“Mea Culpa: Silence in the House of God” SIGNIS statement on HBO film about...
The following is a statement about this HBO film from SIGNIS, the World Catholic Association for Communication. Australian Sacred Heart Missionary, Rev. Peter Malone, gives a detailed review with...
View ArticleThe Life (and Lies) of David Gale revisited
On the 10th anniversary of the release of The Life of David Gale (SPOILERS FOLLOW), I wanted to revisit an essay I wrote about it when it was released. The film is a fictional story about a man who...
View Article“The Invisible War” reveals extent of sexual assault and lack of redress in...
PBS Independent Lens Premieres Monday, May 13 Check local listings On May 5 the officer in charge of the Air Force’s efforts to confront sexual assault, Lt. Col. Jeffrey Krusinski, was arrested for...
View Article“After Earth” a father and son story that’s out of this world
A thousand year’s after human activity has destroyed the earth, humans have made a home for themselves on Nova Prime, a planet outside our solar system. Kitai (Jaden Smith) is in training to be a...
View ArticleOranges and Sunshine: the UK’s and Australia’s dirty secret
Beginning in 1912 the UK began exporting children between the ages of five and fourteen to Canada, Australia, Zimbabwe and other former colonies. Their reasoning ran like this: the territories need...
View Article“Short & Strong” is a film competition for youth about the immigrants in...
What is Cortos Y Fuertes/Short and Strong? We want young people to tell their stories about immigration, how it has affected communities and lives, highlighting immigrant families, pride, hard work...
View ArticleFirst place award from the Catholic Press Association for Sr. Rose
I was very pleased and grateful to discover that my column (three pieces) had received a first place award from the Catholic Press Association last night in Denver for contributions in 2012. My...
View ArticleThe Gatekeepers: candid interviews reveal the failure of violence as a peace...
“The Gatekeepers” (2012) is a documentary with candid interviews with six former heads of the Israeli secret service, Shin Bet, and the oft times brutal tactics, “strategies” Israel used to control...
View ArticleSr. Rose’s List of Books on Theology, Religion, Scripture, Spirituality,...
This is an alphabetical list of books, and one journal, that may be of interest. This is not an endorsement though I am familiar with almost all of these and of course, I endorse those I wrote or...
View Article“The Watsons Go to Birmingham” Must see TV Hallmark Channel September 20
“The Watsons Go to Birmingham” 8 p.m. (7 p.m. Central) Friday, The Hallmark Channel In time to mark the 50th anniversary of the Sept. 15, 1963, bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in...
View Article“Twitteresque” reviews of 86 films I saw in 2013 (and my Top Five)
I watched about 100 movies in 2013 and liked many of them for the quality of the story and/or themes. However, looking back, I could not even remember seeing some of them until I checked my blog. My...
View Article‘Gimme Shelter’: 30 years dealing with broken hearts
Agnes “Apple” Bailey (Vanessa Hudgens) is 16 years old and living on the streets of New Jersey, but it could be Anyplace, USA. She is now homeless, hungry and pregnant. Apple has been in the foster...
View ArticleOscar Romero’s Life in Music (short film on the 34th anniversary of his death)
Today marks the 34th anniversary of the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero (1917 – 1980). NCROnline posted this video by Michael Glen Bell and Duane W.H. Arnold of TheMartyrsProject.com that...
View ArticleShould a Catholic pick a favorite war film?
Just before Memorial Day, a friend who teaches in a Catholic high school wrote to me on Facebook that he and his daughter had just watched “Black Hawk Down,” Ridley Scott’s 2001 war film about the...
View Article‘Dolphin Tale 2′ affirms our responsibility for each other & creation
“Dolphin Tale 2″ continues the story of the 2011 film “Dolphin Tale” about an injured dolphin named Winter. The female bottle nose dolphin was caught in a lobster trap off the coast of Florida and part...
View Article‘Selma’ shows how nonviolence can achieve social change
On July 2, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law. It outlawed all discrimination in the United States for reasons of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin....
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