Oscar winning director Martin Scorsese has announced the completion of the script for a new movie, A Life of Jesus. Mr Scorsese co-wrote the screenplay with critic and filmmaker Kent Jones, based on Shusaku Endo’s book of the same name, and plans to to shoot it later this year. The American director said he envisions…
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Race against time for Britain’s Oskar Schindler
It’s 1988 and we’re coming up to Christmas. Elderly Jew Sir Nicholas Winton (Anthony Hopkins) is decluttering his study to please his wife Grete (Lena Olin). In the process he discovers a scrapbook from World War II. Flash back half a century. Nazism is about to sweep across Europe. The young Nicky (Johnny Flynn) is…
Carry on Catholic
One of the oldest living Carry On actors and Catholic convert talks to Ruadhán Jones It’s hard to believe that Knock International Eucharistic and Marian Shrine has a devotee in a Carry On actor. Those British films, now considered national treasures, are known more for bawdy humour and innuendos than faith and morals. But with…