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A prisoner of his own mind
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterThe Yes Men
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterBattlefield for the soul
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterThrill-ride to redemption
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterUnderneath the juvenile title is a very adult film that uses the paranoid's paradise conceit of the international thriller genre to probe questions of identity, sin and redemption.
Matt Damon again plays Jason Bourne, a young soldier brainwashed by an ultra secret arm of the CIA to be the American government's assassin. When we last saw him in The Bourne Identity, he had woken up with amnesia and the instincts of a very efficient killer.
A western that parallels events today
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterOr, never mind the history. Director Ron Howard's new movie demonstrates that the beautiful landscape of mountains and plains is still beautiful - still the best backdrop a movie could ever hope for.
Dark vs. light, Russian style
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterZombie sequel reaps what it sows
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterWhen Hieronymus Bosch painted hell in the 15th century it was shocking, thrilling and repulsive. The same was true of the 2002 British horror movie 28 Days Later.
Making a choice: to forgive or not
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register
“In the course of making the film, I really had to ask myself, ‘What is evil?’ I’m forever, eternally an optimist and would maybe secretly like to believe that evil doesn’t exist,” Lunn told The Catholic Register before Forgiveness: Stories for Our Time was to premiere in Toronto’s annual Hot Docs Festival in late April. The film will be shown on CTV May 26.
Some lessons in spiritual life
By Fr. Tom Ryan, CSP, Catholic Register SpecialAt the beginning of March, Philip Groning’s film Into Great Silence came into a theatre in New York that specializes in foreign films. It was advertised as having a two-week run. But when each of the three daily showings continued to sell out, the theatre owners put “Held Over” up on the marquis. Now, at month’s end, it’s still playing to full houses. The DVD went on sale in Canada April 3.