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Avatar: The Way of Water is everything James Cameron wants movies to be

December 15, 2022 Steven D. Greydanus 16

“A glorified South America” was one of the odder dismissive takes on Pandora, the alien world of the Na’vi in James Cameron’s Avatar, that I heard when the movie was in theaters. After all, who […]

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The Gospel According to the McDonaghs: The Banshees of Inisherin, Calvary, and In Bruges

November 19, 2022 Steven D. Greydanus 15

Note: This essay contains spoilers for The Banshees of Inisherin, Calvary, and In Bruges. “The things you’re taught as a child…they never really leave you, do they?” These words could be at home in any […]

Features

Jordan Walker Ross reflects on playing Little James in “The Chosen”

November 9, 2022 Kathy Schiffer 1

In 1991, at the age of 29, Canadian-born actor Michael J. Fox was diagnosed with young-onset Parkinson’s disease. Fox, whose roles included the iconic Alex P. Keaton in the NBC sitcom “Family Ties,” and Marty […]

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Assessing The Rings of Power at the end of season 1

October 20, 2022 Steven D. Greydanus 24

“There are powers beyond darkness at work in this world. Perhaps on days like this, we have little choice but to trust to their designs and surrender our own.” So says Galadriel (Morfydd Clark) in […]

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Dysconnected balances cultural critique with compelling “detransition” narrative

October 11, 2022 James Day 5

The new documentary from filmmaker Donald J. Johnson, Dysconnected: The Real Story Behind the Transgender Explosion, had its World Premiere on October 8th at Freed Theater on the campus of Christ Cathedral in Garden Grove, […]

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Catholic film on “the transgender explosion” to premiere October 8th

September 22, 2022 Jim Graves 28

Don Johnson, a Catholic filmmaker based in Anaheim, California, will premiere Dysconnected: The Real Story Behind the Transgender Explosion, a new film on the transgender phenomenon sweeping the nation, on Saturday, October 8, from 6 […]

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The shrinking, post-human vocabulary of our tone-deaf culture

September 20, 2022 Jason M. Baxter 14

I’ve become interested over the past couple of years in my students’ shrinking vocabularies. It’s just anecdotal, but I fancy that I’ve seen an incredible and radical shrinking up of my students’ words. When I […]

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The Rings of Power: Season 1 at the halfway mark

September 15, 2022 Steven D. Greydanus 24

Halfway through the eight episodes of the first season of Amazon Prime’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, the pieces are starting to fall into place. A story that started with such […]

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A new foray into Middle-Earth: The Rings of Power

August 31, 2022 Steven D. Greydanus 88

The term “legendarium”—first used by Tolkien to describe those writings in which he labored for much of his life on the mythopoeic backdrop to The Hobbit and, later, The Lord of the Rings—suggests a literary […]

Books

Taking a Biblical walk through the Mass: An interview with Edward Sri

August 3, 2022 Paul Senz 9

“Christ is always present in His Church,” states Sacrosanctum Concilium, Vatican II’s document on the Sacred Liturgy, “especially in her liturgical celebrations. He is present in the sacrifice of the Mass, not only in the […]

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