James W. Arnold is professor emeritus of journalism at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wis., where he began teaching in 1959. he has a B.A. from Marquette and an M.A. from Stanford. He started a successful film-studies minor program at Marquette. He was a film columnist for the Milwaukee Journal for 10 years. A freelance movie critic for Catholic newspapers since 1961, he was also movie-T.V. columnist for St. Anthony Messenger from 1964-2003. Arnold’s reviews on this site appeared originally in St. Anthony Messenger. Jim and his wife, Gerry (married since 1953) are parents of eight and grandparents of 14.

Frank Frost has served as media reviewer for Every Day Catholic since its inception in January 2001. He has enjoyed a long career as both a critic and a television producer. His TV credits include biographies on Cardinal Joseph Bernardin and on St. Thérèse of Lisieux.

He obtained a doctorate from the University of Southern California's film school and is president of Frank Frost Productions, based in McLean, Virginia.

Sister Rose Pacatte, F.S.P., is the current author of the "Eye on Entertainment" column in St. Anthony Messenger. Sister Rose is a member of the Daughters of St. Paul and director of the Pauline Media Center in Culver City, California. In 2000, she was a jurist at the Venice Film Festival and at the International Berlin Film Festival in February 2003. (For more information about Sister Rose, visit www.paulinecenterformediastudies.org.)

Catholic News Service provides movie reviews for Catholic publications and their Web sites from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' Office of Film and Broadcasting. The bishops' movie reviewer is Gerri Pare, who writes from New York City.

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