Mary and the Angelic Friar
Are you ready for Christmas? Christmas prepping is a practice many of us share. Whether you are writing a wish list or to-do list, dream… Read More »Mary and the Angelic Friar
Are you ready for Christmas? Christmas prepping is a practice many of us share. Whether you are writing a wish list or to-do list, dream… Read More »Mary and the Angelic Friar
Beyond the most popular classic Christmas movies, like “It’s a Wonderful Life” and “White Christmas,” there are countless less-famous older movies with equally heartwarming holiday… Read More »2 Delightful Family Films for the Holidays From October Through December
NTD Television will exclusively broadcast the 2019 Shen Yun Symphony Orchestra Concert on the NTD East, NTD West, and NTD UK channels. 90-minute program will… Read More »Programming Alert: Shen Yun Symphony Orchestra Performance
New Release ‘Mixtape’ Tween girl Beverly (Gemma Brooke Allen) finds a mixtape that belonged to her parents, who died in a car accident years prior.… Read More »Watchlist: What to Watch This Week
new film adaptation of the 1957 Broadway musical play “West Side Story” opened Dec. 10 to the conundrum of rave reviews and limp box office.… Read More »‘West Side Story’: Music Survives Socialist Realism
For months, fans were relegated to watching their favorite singers and musicians over Zoom or via webcasts. Now, live shows—from festivals like Lollapalooza to Broadway musicals—are officially back.… Read More »What’s Behind the Magic of Live Music?
Nonfiction Finding Hope in Hopeless Pezou ‘Man’s Search for Meaning’ By Viktor E. Frankl Frankl spent three years in Nazi concentration camps. His memoir… Read More »Booklist: Recommended Reading
Not Rated| 1h 48min | Crime, Drama, Thriller |1954 Was there a movie when you were younger that was so stirring that it became indelibly… Read More »Iconic Films: ‘On the Waterfront’: Standing Up for What’s Right, No Matter the Cost
June 24, 2016 | R | 2h 19m year is 1863. Former blacksmith Newton Knight (Matthew McConaughey) steadies an ex-slave’s head against a mangrove tree… Read More »Popcorn and Inspiration: Film Review: ‘Free State of Jones’: ‘Braveheart’ of Mississippi
PG-13 | 2h 4min | Drama, Musical, Romance | 17 December 2021 (USA) After the promising releases of “Pride & Prejudice” and “Atonement,” director Joe Wright’s output could kindly be described as… Read More »Film Review: ‘Cyrano’: Director Joe Wright’s Clunky Musical Hits Multiple Sour Notes
Ancient tales of wisdom remind us of the traditions and moral values that have been treasured all over the world. We hope the stories and… Read More »Ancient Tales of Wisdom: Light on the Hills
NR | 1h 13min | Drama | 3 November 2021 (UK) In adapting Max McLean’s stage play “C.S. Lewis Onstage: Most Reluctant Convert,” director Norman Stone resisted the temptation to add… Read More »Film Review: Most Reluctant Convert: Untold Story of C.S. Lewis: Excellent but Not Complete
Based the earliest surviving historical source on Alexander the Great, Diodorus Siculus (90–30 B.C.), we have seen the defining characteristics that made Alexander great over… Read More »How Alexander the Great Became Great, Part 3
Gender roles have been honored throughout the ages in all cultures as God-given roles until socialism and communism sneaked their way into free societies, labeling… Read More »Divinely Inspired Traditional Feminism: God-Gifted Roles for Females Are Timeless
22min | Documentary | 2021 It seems like everywhere you look these days, a lot of chaos is unfolding. We’ve all just been put through… Read More »New Series Review: ‘Are We Living in the End Pezou?’ With Dr. Mark W. Wilson
graceful figure of Venus poised in her shell, as depicted by Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli, is so synonymous with beauty that even those unfamiliar with… Read More »Beyond Botticelli’s Venus: Transcendent Classical Beauty
December 10, 2021 | R | 1h 56m “National Champions” is a crackling, high-voltage, testosterone-intensive sports drama about college football, where nary a down of… Read More »Film Review: ‘National Champions’: Should College Student Athletes Unionize?
What’s your favorite book to read with your children during the holidays? Here are some true-and-tested picks. ‘ Twelve Days of Christmas’ by Laurel Long… Read More »Children’s Books: Christmas Stories to Read Together
Christmas delivers more traditions, festivities, and entertainments than all other American holidays combined. Worshippers sing traditional carols and hymns, and light Advent candles. In their… Read More »Christmas Songs and Carols: Stories Behind the Music
Long ago, when I first met my sister-in-law to-be, a student in her early 20s, she asked me where I’d grown up. I told her… Read More »American Place-Names: Ties That Bind
December 25, 2016 | PG | 2h 7m re was an African-American woman in the 1960s whose math skills not only outstripped all her male… Read More »Popcorn and Inspiration: ‘Hidden Figures’: NASA’s First Black Female Math Wizards
purpose of music composed for holy days is to remind us of the very meaning of those days. English speakers are blessed to have Handel’s… Read More »J.S. Bach’s ‘Christmas Oratorio’ Captures Many Aspects of the Holiday
signature catchphrase of comedian Rodney Dangerfield was “I don’t get no respect.” Military historians in our universities might justifiably lay claim to that same line.… Read More »Lessons From the Battlefield: Literature and War
In many of their writings, the Founding Fathers often indicated what they were working to secure for the American people: safety and happiness. se two… Read More »Book Review: ‘I, Citizen: A Blueprint for Reclaiming American Self-Governance’
New Release ‘ Humans’ Set in a dilapidated Manhattan apartment complex, this slow-paced drama is about three generations of the Blake family getting together for… Read More »Watchlist: What to Watch This Week
As a lifelong fan of cinema, it was hard to admit that I couldn’t remember much of director David Lean’s 1962 masterwork “Lawrence of Arabia.”… Read More »Iconic Films: ‘Lawrence of Arabia’: A Searing Biographical Epic of an Eccentric Hero
Commentary Starting Dec. 19, TV will be streaming “A Good Cop,” which also premiered on NTD Cable TV, Sunday Dec. 5. TV Show is a… Read More »Interviews Review: Don’t Miss Must-See Drama ‘A Good Cop,’ Available on TV
Fiction Recreating the Texas Revolution ‘Captain Putnam for the Republic of Texas’ By James L. Haley In this fourth installment of the historical fiction Putnam… Read More »Booklist: Recommended Reading
NEW YORK—Red Bull ater puts the axiom that people get exactly what they deserve squarely in their sights with Jeffrey Hatcher’s biting adaptation of Ben… Read More »ater Review: ‘ Alchemist’
Ancient tales of wisdom remind us of the traditions and moral values that have been treasured all over the world. We hope the stories and… Read More »Ancient Tales of Wisdom: Heaven Honors the Man Who is Truly Concerned for the People