Unless you’ve been living in a cave blocked by a rock (and if so, maybe get out of there), you’ve heard about, and likely have already seen, Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. The adaptation of Homer’s three-thousand-year-old […]
When I was confirmed in the Church during graduate school, I would not have said, as many other converts do, that my conversion was initiated by the beauty of Catholic art and music. To be […]
Reel Rating: 4 out of 5 reels Deliverance ministry is undergoing a revival in the early 21st century, both within the Church and the wider culture. When I was growing up in the late 1990s, […]
The Warning and the problem of noise It is easy to underestimate The Warning at first glance. Three sisters from Monterrey, Mexico, who first came to attention through a viral Metallica “Enter Sandman” cover as […]
When Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ came out in 2004, the Catholic and Christian reaction blew the doors off theaters. Love it or hate it, the impact that remarkable (though rough) film has had on […]
“In heaven, everything is fine . . .” Either this line means nothing to you, or it calls to mind the uniquely awful—and awfully unique—dread of Eraserhead. Such was the influence of the surrealist filmmaker David […]
As a Catholic, I am grateful that a respected Hollywood filmmaker chose to spend his time and talents to produce a television show about, of all subjects, Catholic saints. After all, Martin Scorsese has been […]
Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints, a new docudrama streaming on FOX Nation produced by the celebrated director, features the lives of eight saints in dramatic enactments with documentary supplements. The series certainly has a fresh […]
Much ink has been spilled by Catholics over the new film Conclave—and not by way of praise. Directed by Edward Berger, it is a piece of anti-Catholic propaganda posing as a film—and it is very […]
It’s not often that a conscientious Catholic moviegoer can recommend a horror movie, rife as they are with gratuitous, unwholesome, or just downright uncomfortable content. There are limits to what people should conjure, create, and […]
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