http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?NewsSectionId=20 Bondare 3.0 RSSBuilder 2013-05-23T15:29:43Z Josephine Siedlecka info@indcatholicnews.com http://www.indcatholicnews.com The copyright in all content provided in this syndicated feed is held by Independent Catholic News. Any unauthorized use of material contained in this RSS may violate copyright laws, trademark laws, the laws of privacy and publicity & communications regs http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=22568 2013-05-17T18:56:41Z 2013-05-17T18:56:41Z Billed as a ‘coming of age’ film with a fairly uninspiring title, Mud certainly was not top of the list of flicks I wanted to see this month, writes Afra Morris in Thinking Faith. It is, however, a pleasant surprise that will have you dreaming of sun-dappled days and the adventures of your youth. Set in Arkansas, it tells the Huckleberry Finn-esque tale of two 14-year-old boys, Ellis (Tye Sheridan) and Neckbone (Jacob Lofland), as they discover and assist the enigmatic ‘Mud’ (Matthew McConaughey), a fugitive trying to rebuild a boat to float away with http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=22040 2013-02-27T14:53:10Z 2013-02-27T14:53:10Z A sobre but very impressive film. While it runs for over two and a half hours, Lincoln limits itself to the month of January, 1865 (with a very brief prologue indicating the intensity of the war in close-up one-on-one combat in muddy fields and an epilogue with the surrender of General Robert E Lee and the assassination of President Lincoln). The focus is human rights and politics. With the act for the abolition for slavery passed by the Senate, the campaign for the vote in the House of Representatives was hard and, at times, bitterly fought. Fr Peter Malone http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=22039 2013-02-27T14:36:12Z 2013-02-27T14:36:12Z This film has touched a nerve with audiences and critics alike, winning Oscar eight nominations this years, and the Best Actress in a Leading Role Oscar for Jennifer Lawrence. Writer-director David O Russell has a son who is bipolar and was interested in the novel by Matthew Quick on which he based this film. It is very American. The characters are very extroverted in whatever situations they find themselves in. Whether the character is experiencing depression or just living ordinarily, uproar is not all that far away. http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=22017 2013-02-25T05:30:04Z 2013-02-25T05:30:04Z I'm not saying it was the best film of the year, but Ben Affleck's Argo was way, way better than Lincoln, Life of Pi, and even Zero Dark Thirty - see my earlier post here. I haven't seen Amour, so I can't say whether Affleck deserved to triumph over Haneke; but he is certainly a worthy winner, Fr Stephen Wang writes in his blog Bridges and Tangents today. And yes, Jennifer Lawrence was much more interesting in Silver Linings Playbook than Jessica Chastain in Zero Dark Thirty, even though I would still have given Chastain the Oscar for http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=21733 2013-01-09T10:58:44Z 2013-01-09T10:58:44Z This graphic film by Spanish director Juan Antonion Bayona tells the harrowing story of one family who were caught up in the 2004 tsunami that left more than 250,000 people dead and caused immense destruction across the coastlands of the Indian Ocean. The story opens during a bumpy flight as Maria, (Naomi Watts) Henry (Ewan McGregor) and their three slightly fractious young sons start their winter vacation in Thailand, looking forward to a few days in tropical paradise. Jo Siedlecka