Movies, TV & Media

I’m Drooling Already. Trailer for THE HOBBIT

by Steve Ray on December 21, 2011

But it won’t be released until December 2012. These folks are big teasers!

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Movie on the Mass Hitting Theatres Friday

by Steve Ray on December 8, 2011

Movie on the Mass Opens Friday By Tim Drake A 3-D animated movie about the Mass opens in select theaters this weekend. It hardly seems possible. Yet, it’s true. That alone makes the movie, “The Greatest Miracle” a “miracle.” Trust me when I say it’s unlike any other movie you’re likely to ever see on [...]

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Janet and I really enjoy the movie Roman Holiday starring Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck. It is a fun and noble movie and was all filmed in Rome. I took Janet on a date yesterday to walk around and find the sites where the movie was filmed. It was fun. We still have five sites [...]

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Oct 01, 2011 08:00 pm; By DAVID KERR (EWTN NEWS/CNA) John Wayne, for many, was a Hollywood legend who symbolized true masculinity and American values. To Father Matthew Muñoz, though, he was simply “granddaddy.” “When we were little we’d go to his house, and we’d simply hang out with granddaddy; and we’d play, and we’d [...]

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Steve is on EWTN’s “The Journey Home” October 3

by Steve Ray on September 30, 2011

Here is a screen shot from my iPhone to remind me :-) To watch the show go to EWTN Television. It will be aired several times during the week.

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For Girls and Guys that Love Them

by Steve Ray on September 26, 2011

Teresa Tomeo has a new book — Extreme Makeover. It is for girls. I have a bunch of girls! I am a lucky man! I have a beautiful wife, three gorgeous daughters and four princess granddaughters, not to mention my 90 year old mother who is still full of life, modesty and humor. Guys are [...]

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Most Rock n’ Rollers end up badly in old age, if they ever get to old age. I spent time again with one this weekend that has a done very well – Dion DiMucci of the Dion and Belmonts from the late 50′s and early 60′s – and beyond. He is famous for Run Around [...]

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Beautiful Movie Aerial Views of Israel

by Steve Ray on July 28, 2011

Jerusalem | Filmed in Imax 3D from JerusalemGiantScreen on Vimeo. After a year of research and preparation, the giant screen film JERUSALEM advanced into production with an unprecedented aerial shoot throughout Israel and the West Bank. Scheduled for worldwide release in 2013, the film will take audiences on a spectacular tour of the Holy Land [...]

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Gaga over Gaga

by Steve Ray on July 8, 2011

A Cultural Dissection by my friend Liz Lev: Who’s Judas? Who’s Lady Gaga? Whatever qualms about form and meaning that contemporary art might raise, at least Calatrava and Arnaldo Pomodoro can lay some claim to the hard-earned title of artist. This week I was confronted with another use of the title, the pop star. While [...]

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Two Great Jewish Movies

by Steve Ray on April 18, 2011

Since we are in Jerusalem over Passover, I thought I would share two of our favorite Jewish movies. Recently watched “Everything is Illuminated” again. It is funny and profound about a young man (Elijah Wood – Frodo in “Lord of the Rings”) who discovers his Jewish past after Nazi fascists occupied Ukraine. It is one [...]

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Are Those Girls Real?

by Steve Ray on March 30, 2011

Our daughters (and wives) are bombarded with unrealistic expectations about how they should look! They should be glamorous, sexy, beautiful, thin in all the right places and bulging in others. They should be tall, blond . . . . . . make sure your wives and daughters watch these excellent videos. By the way, us [...]

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Doc Martin

by Steve Ray on March 22, 2011

Janet and I thoroughly enjoyed watching all four seasons of the British series Doc Martin. It is a a quirky, fun and entertaining series. More soon with links.

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Janet and I got rid of television years ago. We called the cable company and canceled our service. We began reading more and renting movies for the family to watch together. It have been a huge life-changer and has had a noticeably positive effect on our family. We put up a list of the Ray [...]

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Australian on the Media

by Steve Ray on June 25, 2010

If Hollywood honored Christian heroes… June 25, 2010 Weary of blockbuster films that distort the history of the Church and/or focus on the negative, Michael Cook, the editor of the Australian site MercatorNet, muses on how many compelling films could be made about saints and heroes of the Church. He mentions, for example, Walter Ciszek, [...]

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This got a chuckle out of me so I thought you might like it to. Bart and Homer convert to the Catholic Church and leave Marge a Protestant, to her chagrin. Click here. Let me know if you like it or not.

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Sisters of Mary on Ophrah Winfrey Show

by Steve Ray on February 2, 2010

Here is the message I received from my good friends at Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist: “Please keep this in your prayers — but on Feb. 9th, our 13th anniversary as a community, we will be on the “Oprah Winfrey Show”!! “They were out here yesterday filming and 4 Sisters will be flown [...]

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