By MSGR. JOHN MYLERCulture Columnist Ten films have been nominated for the Academy Ward as ”Best Picture” – dramas, comedies, a musical, even an action movie or two … but do any of them contain a spiritual element? ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT, based on Erich Maria Remarque’s classic […]
By MSGR. JOHN MYLERCulture Columnist It’s said that Pope Benedict’s favorite TV program was Kommissar Rex—a 1990’s German series about a police dog who each week helps solve perplexing crimes. But I’d bet that, if he’d been able to watch it, the late Pope would have been intrigued and delighted […]
By MSGR. JOHN MYLER Culture Columnist World War One ended in 1918 on the “eleventh day of the eleventh month at the eleventh hour.” Now streaming on Netflix—ahead of Veterans’ Day—is a new film version of ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT, loosely based on Erich Maria Remarque’s classic 1928 […]
