Tag: cinema

June 1-2: Triumph with ‘Messenger of The Truth’ on PBS

Anita Crane

Published at Catholic Lane and RenewAmerica.com. This Sunday, June 1, and Monday, June 2, a miracle of sorts takes place on mainstream TV as PBS affiliates broadcast a documentary about a heroic Catholic priest. “Messenger of The Truth” is about Blessed Father Jerzy Popieluszko, chaplain to the Solidarity labor union that nonviolently took down the communist regime in […]

New film puts Christ back into Christmas

Anita Crane

Above all, Christmas is about celebrating the birthday of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. While many Christians try to faithfully rejoice, the holidays can be tinged with sorrow for any number of reasons, especially loneliness. Today, however, a sweet uplifting movie premiers. “The Christmas Candle” opens November 22 in hundreds of theaters across the U.S.A., hundreds more in the United Kingdom and still more in Australia and New Zealand.

‘Hating Breitbart’ and loving justice

Anita Crane

Published over the weekend @ RenewAmerica.com… “The left pits people against one another: divide and conquer. I don’t want to live in that world – I’m sick of living in that world. I live in that world. It is the exact opposite of e pluribus unum,” says Andrew Breitbart in “Hating Breitbart,” which opens in […]

Mixed emotions on the movie ‘Les Misérables’

Anita Crane

Published and argued at CatholicLane Thanks to a friend and diehard “Les Miserables” fan, I saw the movie musical but have mixed emotions about it. Hugh Jackman is a fine Jean Valjean, but the Victor Hugo story is highly misleading on the French Revolutionaries; the musical by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg, with lyrics by […]

New ‘For Greater Glory’ DVD reveals what it means to be Church Militant

Anita Crane

The film “For Greater Glory: The True Story of Cristiada,” starring Andy Garcia, Mauricio Kuri, Eva Longoria, Eduardo Verástegui, Peter O’Toole, Santiago Cabrera and Oscar Isaac, is now available on DVD and very timely as Catholics, some 25 percent of the U.S. population, prepare to vote on November 6. Verástegui, who plays Blessed Anacleto Gonzalez Flores, […]

‘October Baby’ could be a life saver

Anita Crane

Published at RenewAmerica and National Right to Life News Americans are flocking to independent films in this year of 2012. One of these indies, “October Baby” with John Schneider, is now on DVD and very timely as Catholics and others prepare to vote on November 6. In fact, this movie will always be timely for […]

Frightening truth about Obama in movie theaters & on DVDs

Anita Crane

Oct. 5 update: “2016” will be released on DVD Oct. 16. Pre-order from Amazon in right column Two important documentaries are in theaters now as Americans prepare to vote in November. Two more are available on DVD and I’ve got lots of info for you. At the Washington screening of “2016: Obama’s America,” one of […]

‘Runaway Slave’ movie theme song

Anita Crane

Here’s the music video to Rev. C.L. Bryant’s movie “Runaway Slave.” Jack Spade sings and it  includes some scenes and people  featured in the film. You can get it by clicking on one of my Amazon links… Click here for my story on Rev. Bryant and “Runaway Slave”

‘You didn’t build that’: Obama’s anti-colonialist rage?

Anita Crane

WND EXCLUSIVE ‘You didn’t build that’: Anti-colonialist rage? ‘Americans stole it, he has every right to use power of state to confiscate it back’ By Anita Crane Published: July 27, 2012 At the beginning of his new film “2016: Obama’s America,” Dinesh D’Souza states, “We are all shaped by our pasts, and we carry elements […]

Do not miss ‘For Greater Glory’!

Anita Crane

Stunning historical attack on Christians revealed ‘For Greater Glory’ project features Catholic priest with crucifix, bandolier, gun Published by WND: May 31, 2012 By Anita Crane It’s being called the “Schindler’s List” of Mexico, and it reveals what really terrifies a Marxist: A Catholic priest armed with a crucifix, bandolier and a gun. Tomorrow, nearly […]

‘Mighty Macs’ and Coach Cathy Rush had more than a prayer

Anita Crane

Nuns, their students and a basketball championship! ‘Mighty Macs’ offers rare entertaining story and ‘G’ rating Posted: October 22, 2011 By Anita Crane © 2011 WND In “The Mighty Macs,” which opens this weekend, Carla Gugino, David Boreanaz, Marley Shelton and Ellen Burstyn take us back to the days when G-rated movies were the norm, not […]

Insiders expose abortion industry in ‘BloodMoney’

Anita Crane

Posted: February 21, 2011 10:54 pm Eastern By Anita Crane © 2011 WorldNetDaily In the wake of the latest video sting by Live Action showing a Planned Parenthood employee apparently willing to aid supposed sex traffickers in procuring abortions for minors, Planned Parenthood claimed to be “profoundly shocked” and fired the director of a New Jersey clinic […]