Here's my review.... A snip.... > "Through a Gospel lens, what makes Boyhood so important is that it > tracks how a human person is basically lost through the lack of...
http://churchofthemasses.blogspot.com/2014/12/heres-my-review.html
Somebody just sent me yet another little pro-life video to review. They said they wanted my notes, but, if anybody wants notes, they should ask BEFORE the thing is done, not after. Afterward,...
http://churchofthemasses.blogspot.com/2014/08/why-good-people-do-media-wrong.html
"Fault Iin Our Stars" is a slow-moving, talky vision of Millenials without any spiritual or philosophical depth dealing with death. It is interesting at points because of the way it showcases...
http://churchofthemasses.blogspot.com/2014/06/fault-iin-our-stars-is-slow-moving.html
There was a powerful reaction last night to my presentation at a local parish on the liturgy and beauty. At a certain point, I felt like I was living that scene in the Old Testament when the peop...
http://churchofthemasses.blogspot.com/2014/05/sheep-without-shepherd.html
Introduction We were raised by adage. My mother and father came from a generation that saw itself as connected to the ones that had come before. They had none of the modern kneejerk reac...
http://churchofthemasses.blogspot.com/2014/05/mom-was-right.html
So, after three weeks of no Easter songs being sung at our Church on Sunday, and an extreme level of horribleness in the banal songs that were being sung, I finally had to say something, so I wen...
http://churchofthemasses.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-arrogance-of-banal.html
It's been about eight months in the writing although probably forty years in the brooding. Stay tuned for more updates....
http://churchofthemasses.blogspot.com/2014/05/coming-january-2015.html
The Catholic Artists Society invites artists, patrons, friends of the arts and their families to its annual Solemn Mass for Artists. This year's Mass will mark the 15th anniversary of Pope St. ...
http://churchofthemasses.blogspot.com/2014/04/attn-nyc-area-artists.html
(Notes from a talk I gave earlier this year which folks asked me to share.) I. WHAT WE HAVE LOST AND WHY IT MATTERS The sad thing is, if you walked on the street and took a spot survey, a...
http://churchofthemasses.blogspot.com/2014/04/why-should-christianity-be-patron-of.html
The truth is, the tragic note that should be given about many scripts that are on the floors, desks, chairs and trunks in Hollywood is, “This script should never have been written.” Scrip...
http://churchofthemasses.blogspot.com/2014/04/practice-safe-storytelling.html
Gravity – Directed by Alfonso Cuaron; Written by Alfonso Cuaron and Jonas Cuaron; Starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney; PG-13 for intense situations I don’t think I’ve ever bee...
http://churchofthemasses.blogspot.com/2014/04/gravity-soars.html
Here is an interview that just came out. It is me being interviewed by writer Andrea Galli for the Italian paper Av Venire. I don’t have an exact translation, but these are the answers t...
http://churchofthemasses.blogspot.com/2014/04/a-christian-cinema-interview-with-av.html
(Here is the full length piece I wrote about Flannery O’Connor’s recently published, “A Prayer Journal.” I wrote the piece for a copy of the book for this website here . They edited ...
http://churchofthemasses.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-rest-of-review-flannery-oconnors.html
Let me just start by saying two words which you can accept as fair warning to avoid this stupidest movie in years: Rock People. Need more? Tragically, as Western Civilization continue...
http://churchofthemasses.blogspot.com/2014/04/noah-emporers-new-movie.html
My esteemed film criticism colleague, Peter Chatta way , has done a nice job for Christianity Today of summarizing the movement in Hollywood recently towards telling Biblical epics again. He...
http://churchofthemasses.blogspot.com/2014/04/surveying-history-of-biblical-films-in.html
Heaven is for Real, Directed by Randall Wallace, Written by Randall Wallace and Chris Parker, based on the book by Todd Burpo and Lynn Vincent; stars Greg Kinnear, Thomas Hayden Church, Kelly R...
http://churchofthemasses.blogspot.com/2014/04/heaven-is-for-anyone-with-heart.html
Somebody just sent me a link to this recent article by scientist Allison Gopnik in the Wall Street Journal. It's all about how recent research on the brain has show that sharing stories creates...
http://churchofthemasses.blogspot.com/2014/04/stories-meld-our-minds.html
You know how I said I was closing this blog and moving over to that other place? Well, it was nice while it lasted, but I'm very pleased to resurrect this blog at this time and officially p...
http://churchofthemasses.blogspot.com/2014/04/im-baaaaaaaaaaack.html
I am posting this for my friends at Communion and Liberation. I think we should do this kind of thing vigorously - before the government says we can't any more. Something to tell our children and...
http://churchofthemasses.blogspot.com/2012/03/way-of-cross-over-brooklyn-bridge.html
I got another one last night. A person who heard me give a speech sent me a message asking me to evaluate his life story as a good spine for a movie. We folks in the movie business get this ki...
http://churchofthemasses.blogspot.com/2012/03/so-you-think-you-have-idea-for-movie.html
Someone forwarded this on to me today. We get these kind of requests through Act One all the time, but this one was so egregiously offensive, I am sharing it for posterity.... > > Looking f...
http://churchofthemasses.blogspot.com/2012/03/no-actually-you-dont-want-screenwriter.html
I don't have the time or will to do a complete analysis of all the faults in The Mighty Macs. It is yet the latest disappointing movie effort to be produced and financed by committed Christians. ...
http://churchofthemasses.blogspot.com/2011/10/mediocrity-takes-on-some-champs.html
> Somebody wrote me recently that their project got rejected in > Hollywood for improper formatting. The writer was irate that such a > small thing would be used to re...
http://churchofthemasses.blogspot.com/2011/09/screenwriting-grammar-matters.html
> I am giving a two day workshop on the use of visual imagery in storytelling in Colorado in February 2012. They asked me to write a short piece about the topic for their magazine. I wrote too ...
http://churchofthemasses.blogspot.com/2011/07/on-visual-imagery.html
Here is a new piece I wrote for my friends at Crisis Magazine about the coming battle for euthanasia. Please click on the link, and send it on to other friends. This issue is critically importan...
http://churchofthemasses.blogspot.com/2011/06/new-article-from-barb-on-euthanasia.html