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CABRINI

March 8, 2024 By Leave a Comment

CABRINI

CABRINI is a handsome throwback to the hagiographies done so well by Hollywood in the 1940s and 1950s. Replete with luxurious cinematography worthy of anything to be found in a fine arts museum, it is fueled by a passionate, coolly confidant performance by Cristiana Dell’Anna as Mother Cabrini, America’s first saint. Amid the expected, and… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true tory, Five Points, immigration, liberation theology, Mother Cabrini, New York City, orphanage, saint, Tammany Hall, Vatican

THE NUN 2

September 9, 2023 By Leave a Comment

THE NUN 2

THE NUN 2 is not a complete waste of time. It is a superbly shot film, and directed with a certain understated flair by Michael Chaves, who, along with Taissa Farmiga, gets about as much as can be extracted from an anemic script. The result is decidedly underwhelming, verging on dull despite all the ickiness.… Read More »

Tagged With: 1956, Aix-en-Provence, anemic script, boarding school, Conjuring Universe, demon, France, holy relic, mean girls, nun, sequel, Vatican

FRANCESCO

March 26, 2021 By Leave a Comment

FRANCESCO

Click  here to listen to the flashback interview with Evgeny Afineevsky for CRIES FROM SYRIA. FRANCESCO can be classified as a hagiography of Pope Frances. Certainly, what Evgeny Afineevsky shows us of His Holiness is a man of great faith and great, notably ecumenical, compassion. Even when Frances makes a blunder about the sexual abuse… Read More »

Tagged With: clerical sexual abuse, climate change, climate crisis, LGBTQ, papacy, pope, Refugees, social justice, Vatican

MISS YOU ALREADY Catherine Hardwicke

November 13, 2015 By Leave a Comment

MISS YOU ALREADY Catherine Hardwicke

Full of emotion, but never cheap sentimentality, there is a refreshing honesty in the way MISS YOU ALREADY depicts Milly’s battle with cancer, including being called out by being called a cancer bully by Jess. It’s one of the things we talked about on October 9th, 2015, as well as shopping with Jacqueline Bissett, shaving… Read More »

Tagged With: breast cancer, cancer, cancer bully, female bonding, Frances de la Tour, friendship, head shaving, Heathcliff, Mayo Clinic, mother-daughter relationship, nun crush, Oscar Isaac, Seth Maxwell, stage-four cancer, The Thirst Foundation, Vatican, Wuthering Heights, Yorkshire moors

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