This category has reviews of Films or TV shows that deal with subjects or themes of interest to Catholics - reviewed from a Catholic perspective.
War School, a provocative film launched this week, is set to challenge the British government's attempt to entice children into support for war.
Timed to coincide with the centenary of the end of World War I, War School tells the story of another battle. This one for the hearts and minds of Britain's children in an increasingly militarised society.
On the streets, on television, onl...
'Lucky', John Carroll Lynch's directorial debut, featuring Harry Dean Stanton in his last starring role, is out this week in cinemas across the UK and Ireland.
Beautifully shot, this slow-moving, quirky film follows a few days in the life of a 90-year-old atheist and the people that inhabit his off the map desert town. Having out-lived and out-smoked all of his contemporaries, the fiercel...
Two documentaries about Pope Francis and Catholic history in China were recently aired in China, a sign that Beijing has been grasping the opportunity to improve China-Vatican ties under the papacy of Pope Francis.
In a change from the past, topics related to Catholicism have appeared frequently on China's mainstream media platforms in recent months, which experts say is a good sign for C...
St Nicholas's CoE Church in Deptford, London SE8 3DQ, is the venue for special screening of a film which has been described as one of the greatest movies of all time. Tarkovsky's 1966 Andrei Rublev, based loosely on the 15th-century Russian icon painter deals with many themes of religion, artistic freedom and politics. St Nicholas's is the resting place of Christopher Marlowe and home to beauti...
Recently, I watched the docudrama 'The Sultan and the Saint' at a screening organized at St Xavier's School in Delhi, by the Islamic Studies Association for Jesuits and their friends in the ministry of promoting interfaith relations. The film depicts one of the greatest stories from history. Set in a past period of East-West conflict, it speaks with urgency to our present. Two men of faith, one...
History was made in September 1979, when St John Paul II became the first Pope to visit Ireland.
His pilgrimage celebrated the centenary of the apparitions at Knock, in August 1879. It also marked the beginning of Ireland's Peace Process as nearly 300,000 heard his appeal at Drogheda to the men of violence: "on my knees, I beg you to turn away from the path of violence and return to the w...
I am wary of technology and concepts like 'Artificial Intelligence', but the latest series of Channel 5's sci-fi drama 'Humans' has made me realise that complex questions surrounding the creation of high-functioning robots cannot be ignored. I believe that people of faith should be engaging with the issues involved.
The final episode of the third series of 'Humans' is on Thursday 5 July. ...
The Breadwinner is an upcoming and thought provoking animated film by Cartoon Saloon. Directed by Nora Twomey and executive produced by Mimi Polk Gitlin and Angelina Jolie, it raises awareness on sensitive and political issues. It has received a nomination for Best Animated Feature at the 90th Academy Awards, and has received a Canadian Screen Award for Adapted Screenplay, due to it's ability t...
Sheffield actor Sean Bean has won a BAFTA for his lead performance in the BBC drama Broken. He collected his prize in a star-studded ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall last night.
Set in a Catholic community in the north of England, Broken tells the moving stories of the people and their parish priest Fr Michael Kerrigan.
Their poverty, grief, crime and family troubles all evoke hi...
Edie, in cinemas from 25th May, tells the story of Edith Moore, an elderly woman who decides to fulfil a life-long dream of climbing Mount Suilven in Scotland. Featuring an unforgettable performance from Sheila Hancock, the film offers a chance to reflect on the themes of regret and renewal which run through all of our lives, and which are at the heart of the Christian message. A com...
Prior to broadcasting the repeat of the BBC series Elizabeth I's Secret Agents, the BBC has re-edited two of the episodes following a complaint about misleading statements about a Jesuit priest. The series tells the story of how Elizabeth I's spymasters kept ahead of plots to overthrow her, and later her successor James I.
The Jesuit priest Fr John Gerard, famous for his darin...
An Irish Presentation Sister, Sr Loreto Houlihan, is the subject of a documentary - Sister India - produced by Irish film-maker, Myles O'Reilly. Sr Loreto, born Peg Houlihan near Carrick-on-Suir in Co Tipperary in 1927 has spent 70 years teaching in India where she recently celebrated her 91st birthday. The film is currently being screened at a number of film festivals in Ireland and in India.<...
Two Crowns, directed by Michał Kondrat, (in Polish with English subtitles) is the first movie to feature little known facts from the life of Father Maximilian Kolbe - from his childhood to the heroic decision to sacrifice his own life for a co-prisoner at Auschwitz.
Fr Maximilian Maria Kolbe, martyr, missionary and journalist, has been described as having 'a genius mind'. Besides leading...
A powerful documentary film which was reviewed on ICN by Father Rob Esdaile last summer, is due to be screened at a number of venues in London next month. There will also be Q&As with the producer, director and others involved in the film at some of the screenings.
Another News Story takes a fresh view of the European refugee crisis. The film opens in 2015 Greece as refugees arrive on the...
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