Category: Reviews

It’s understandable that so many religious programmes are concentrated on Sundays. Some may feel it puts religion in a media ghetto, but in a way it’s also showing sensitivity to the Lord’s Day. On last Sunday morning’s Sunday Sequence (BBC Radio Ulster), Audrey Carville presented a timely item on the morality of paying hostage takers: should…

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Responsible parenthood or just a flight of fancy? Few things have caught the online Catholic imagination so much in recent weeks as Pope Francis’ in-flight comment that it is unnecessary to be “like rabbits” in order to be good Catholics, and that “responsible parenthood” is paramount.  Damian Thompson points out in The Spectator that “journalists…

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The team behind Frozen and Wreck It Ralph, two of the most successful Disney films of recent years, have now made Big Hero 6(PG), a comedy adventure that chronicles a quirky relationship that develops between a huge inflatable robot, Baymax, and a child prodigy, Hiro Hamada, when they team up with a group of friends to become…

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Last week felt like ‘Same-Sex Marriage Week’. Monday evening saw the start of a new series on RTÉ 1, Claire Byrne Live. I thought it was rather bizarre to start the show with Colin Farrell making the case for same-sex marriage. He was obviously sincere, but ‘Hollywood star favours gay marriage’ sounds more like a…

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