Current Movie Review:

Mean Girls
Mark Walters
Paramount Pictures  Feature Film
PG-13 - sexual content, language, some teen partying

Fifteen year-old Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) is the ultimate outsider. Raised and home schooled in the African bush by her zoologist parents, she is an independent thinker and a very smart math student. But things don't add up when she enters North Shore High School in a small town outside of Chicago. The place is divided into so many cliques that she can't even decipher them all.

This spiffy morality play has plenty of dramatic fireworks

The film drives home the point that being cruel is no way to build up one's self-esteem. You become just as much a victim as the people on the other end of your mean and degrading behavior.

Movie Review
by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Read the Brussat's entire review at Spirituality & Health.

Ella Enchanted
Tommy O'Haver
Miramax 04/04 Feature Film    PG

Ella Enchanted is directed by Tommy O'Haver based on the bestselling, Newbery Honor-winning novel by Gail Carson Levine. It is a delightful romp from start to finish, filled with delicious comic bits, some wonderful melodic songs, and a heroine whose search for her true self is animated by a deep yearning for justice in a kingdom where outsiders are being treated as second-class citizens. Anne Hathway fills the bill as a wonder woman who can sing, dance, enchant, and fight for the rights of others. You'll cheer when she gets the prince!

This is the best piece of fantasy filmmaking since Shrek! And, like that now-classic fairytale, it proves that your strongest asset is what's inside you — in your heart.

Movie Review
by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
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Book Review:

Soaring Where Christ Has Led:
Innovative Worship Ideas for the 21st Century

By Richard Avery and Donald Marsh

"The Sunday morning service is a family reunion, the gathering of a scattered household."

Soaring Where Christ Has Led is a manual for use by those, ministers and/or lay persons, who are responsible for the worship life and, more specifically, for Sunday morning services and other seasonal celebrations. It contains practical steps from planning to evaluation and what needs to take place in between. Chapters in Part 1 are designated by the liturgical seasons — Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Holy Week, Easter and Pentecost. Part 2 is an appendix of 13 songs by the two composers, some previously published and some brand new, that are examples cited in the text for possible use.

Check out review by Mary Ann Lundy in Presbyterian Outlook.

You can purchase the book here at 30% savings.
 

Movies on CD:

Holes is a hoot from start to finish, one of the most deliciously imaginative children's films to hit the screen in many a moon.

Holes, as you might have guessed by now, is an outrageously inventive movie based on the 1999 Newbery Award-winning book of the same title by Louis Sachar. In a recent poll by Read magazine of the most popular books among children, Holes ranked #1 — beating even Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.

Check out the Brussat's review at Spirituality & Health here.

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