Posts Tagged ‘movie review’

A saint we need

Thursday, March 14th, 2024
Immigrants

“They oughta send them all back.” “A wave of brown-skinned filth.” “Keep your crime and your filth out of this neighbourhood.” This is some of the invective directed at Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini after she arrives in a chaotic New York City, as depicted in the luminous new film drama Cabrini. It should be obvious Read more

James Bond gets Vatican’s attention

Friday, November 2nd, 2012

His womanising and predilection for killing his enemies without mercy did not prevent James Bond from getting the attention of the Vatican. Vatican’s L’Osservatore Romano newspaper devoted an entire page and five articles in praise of the fictional British spy in its Oct. 31 edition. The Osservatore film critic Gaetano Vallini wrote that the James Read more