Worse than Bad
MPAA Rating: PG USCCB Rating: Not rated at the time of this review Reel Rating: 1 reel out of 5 When Hocus Pocus premiered in 1993, it was a small, poorly received flick that nonetheless […]
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by bcadmin | Oct 17, 2022 | Disney, hocus pocus, hocus pocus 2, News, The Dispatch, Witchcraft | 0 |
MPAA Rating: PG USCCB Rating: Not rated at the time of this review Reel Rating: 1 reel out of 5 When Hocus Pocus premiered in 1993, it was a small, poorly received flick that nonetheless […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 17, 2022 | Buzz Lightyear, Chris Evans, Dale Soules, Disney, Disney-Pixar, James Brolin, Keke Palmer, Lightyear, Movie Reviews, News, Peter Sohn, Picks, Taika Waititi, To infinity and beyond, toy story, Uzo Aduba | 0 |
“Lightyear” blasts off in cinemas with controversy in its wake.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 12, 2022 | Aristotle, Benedict XVI, Disney, Essay, Étienne Gilson, Features, Homosexuality, Jesus Christ, language, Lewis Carroll, LGBTQ, logos, max picard, Msgr. Robert Sokolowski, News, Saint Thomas Aquinas, self-identification, sodomy | 0 |
Almost everyone is familiar with Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass. In one of its most famous passages, Carroll neatly encapsulates the central issue in the use and abuse of language: “When I use a […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 9, 2022 | Disney, Marvel, Moon Knight, News, The Dispatch | 0 |
Moon Knight is about justice and vengeance. It is about childhood trauma. It is about mental illness. It is about free will. It is about superheroes using their fists to stop bad guys—although there is […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 18, 2022 | animation, Disney, News, Paramount, Sonic the Hedgehog, The Dispatch | 0 |
MPAA Rating: PG USCCB Rating: A-II Reel Rating: 4 out of 5 reels When the original trailer to the first Sonic film, produced by Paramount Pictures, dropped on Valentine’s Day in 2019, many fans were […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 13, 2022 | Ask Your Husband, Disney, Flannery O'Connor, modernism, New Jersey, News, Rembrandt, The Dispatch, The Great Reset, transgenderism, Walker Percy | 0 |
An unexpected controversy: If the book “Ask Your Husband” were pulled from publication, you might have thought it would be after the publisher faced pushback from scholars taking issue with its provocative reading of the […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 22, 2022 | Disney, ideology, Movies, News, Pixar, Russell Kirk, The Dispatch | 0 |
It has been a lively month at the Walt Disney Company. Late February saw the release of the feature film Turning Red to the dismay of parents who believe that discussion of menstruation, sexualized drawings […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 2, 2021 | Awkwafina, Disney, Fala Chen, Martial-arts, Marvel, Meng'er Zhang, Movie Reviews, News, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Simu Liu, Tony Leung | 0 |
Sprightly wit paces the elegant martial-arts showdowns in director and co-writer Destin Daniel Cretton’s Marvel Comics-derived adventure “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 27, 2021 | Disney, Dwayne Johnson, Edgar Ramirez, Emily Blunt, Featured, Jesse Plemons, Jungle Cruise, Magic Kingdom, Movie Reviews, News | 0 |
For most of its running time, the lighthearted adventure “Jungle Cruise,” adapted by director Jaume Collet-Serra from a Magic Kingdom theme park ride, registers as a diverting, if insubstantial, fantasy.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 20, 2021 | Big Shot, Dale Whibley, Disney, Jessalyn Gilsig, John Stamos, Marvyn Korn, Nell Verlaque, News, Sophia Mitri Schloss, U.S. & World News, Yvette Nicole Brown | 0 |
While its tone is mostly upbeat, the presence of some mature and ethically dubious material means the sports-themed blend of comedy and drama “Big Shot” is not for little ones.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 12, 2021 | Adolescent maturation, Disney, Emotions, Inside Out, Memories, News, Pixar, Sunday Scriptures, Temperaments | 0 |
One of my favorite movies from the past decade is Disney Pixar’s “Inside Out,” which was partially set in Minnesota. In clever and understandable ways, the animated movie tackled some serious anthropological topics (i.e. studying the human person) such as temperaments, emotions, adolescent maturation and memories.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 6, 2021 | Awkwafina, Disney, Kelly Marie Tran, Movie Reviews, News, Raya and the Last Dragon | 0 |
The lively and colorful animated adventure “Raya and the Last Dragon” teaches viewers that trust is the necessary basis of peaceful coexistence while showcasing the ills produced by greed and aggression. Yet it also includes quasi-religious behavior that might confuse impressionable viewers.
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