[Editor’s note: Spoiler alert!] When I saw the coming attractions for the new film Risen—which deals with a Roman tribune searching for the body of Jesus after reports of the resurrection—I thought that it would […]
Compiling a survey—however inadequate—of Lenten compositions confirms the fact that we should show more gratitude than we routinely do for YouTube’s very existence. Before YouTube arrived, providing musical illustrations to a magazine’s editor needed to […]
Inheritance, the new album by singer, songwriter, and pianist Audrey Assad [www.audreyassad.com], releases today. A collection of hymns and original songs, the beautiful, contemplative album features Audrey’s crystalline vocals and tasteful piano in lush, cinematic-like […]
Hail, Caesar! is the much-anticipated addition to the canon of the famed Coen brothers’ films—a list which includes both dramas like True Grit and quirky cult classics like O Brother, Where Art Thou? Their latest movie certainly bears that clever […]
Is The Bridge of San Luis Rey, with which in 1927 Thornton Wilder obtained his first—almost his only—huge success as novelist, still read widely? It deserves to be. If a book can survive having its […]
MPAA Rating: PG USCCB Rating: A-II Reel Rating: (2 out of 5 reels) Right from the beginning, this installment of the Kung Fu Panda franchise commits a cardinal sin by violating its own universe, creating […]
In “Sing to the Lord, All the Earth”, a surprising instruction sent to priests, deacons, and parish leaders this past Tuesday, Bishop John F. Doerfler laid out a series of mandates intended to implement wide-ranging sacred music […]
I met the newest member of the International Polka Association (IPA) Hall of Fame, Randy Koslosky, at a large bagel establishment east of Pittsburgh for lunch. If you think of Gus Polinski, the “Polka King […]
The Biblical epic, once a mainstay in the film industry of a bygone era, may be poised for a comeback. 2014 saw the release of Darren Aronofsky’s Noah as well as Ridley Scott’s Exodus: Gods […]
Alejandro Iñárritu’s new film The Revenant is one of the most talked about movies, and for good reason. The opening twenty minutes, which feature a frighteningly realistic Indian attack and a horrifically vivid mauling by a grizzly […]
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