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Catholic movies: Click through Elinor here to find a poll being taken by the National Catholic Register on: What movies (out of about 100 to choose from) make you proudest latimer place in chesham to be a Catholic? My choices: #1 -- the BBC's 1981 BRIDESHEAD REVISITED. Obviously. #2. THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST. #3. BECKET. #4 BEN HUR. #5 was hard: I considered IN THIS HOUSE OF BREDE, since my father was involved in producing it; I also considerered latimer place in chesham ON THE WATERFRONT and BRAVEHEART. WATERFRONT would beat out BRAVEHEART just for having more specifically Catholic content. In the end, though, I went with I CONFESS, because I don't know that it's possible to do a better job of dramatizing for the average viewer the sacredness of the confessional.
Explode the Code: More take-downs latimer place in chesham of Dan Brown's The DaVinci Cod e. First, an amusing one from down under (calling it an "almost sublimely fatuous action thriller"); next, a more straightforward one from, perhaps surprisingly, the campus paper at UCLA. Turning latimer place in chesham serious, the aforelinked Australian critic, Frank Devine, adds: Brown is a leading practitioner of a dangerous new genre popular fiction featuring latimer place in chesham a fictional guru who makes oracular pronouncements on real issues. In Da Vinci it's Robert Langdon rubbishing Catholic beliefs. In the disaster movie, The Day After Tomorrow, Ian Holm, playing a climatologist, spouts nonsense about global warming and, being an accomplished actor, makes it sound plausible. Brown's attack on the Catholic Church, under the cover of an airport novel, is clearly i