Film & Music

The strange and mysterious history of the classic silent film about the Maid of Orleans. […]

With his latest film, Last Days in the Desert, Rodrigo Garcia has accomplished something truly remarkable. He has taken a portion of the life of the single most compelling person who has ever lived and turned it […]

MPAA Rating: PG-13  USCCB Rating: A-III  Reel Rating: (4 out of 5 reels) The Captain America films are the crux of Marvel’s Cinematic Universe. The opening film saw the introduction of MCU’s first superhero, the […]

Late on the night of May 11, 1916, in a Leipzig hotel bedroom, a guest who had recently been visiting the Netherlands suffered a fatal heart attack. He was only 43 years of age, but […]

Director Jon Favreau’s The Jungle Book is Disney’s latest attempt to reinvent some of the kingdom’s animated classics as live-action pieces. Almost exclusively completed in vivid CGI, the new Jungle Book thus falls somewhere between […]

Just the other day I saw a news item about a proposed new ballet production based on the classic film, The Red Shoes. (The fact that another ballet version was tried on Broadway in 1983 […]

MPAA Rating, PG USCCB Rating, A-II Reel Rating,           The new sequel to 2014’s God’s Not Dead raises the stakes, as it moves the question of religious liberty in an increasingly secular culture from […]

As any apologist worth his/her salt will tell you, the great objection to the proposition that God exists is the fact of innocent suffering. If you want a particularly vivid presentation of this complaint, go on YouTube […]

The latest big superhero mash-up opened on Good Friday. Given the allusions hearkened to by one of the titular characters—allusions first played up in Mario Puzo’s script for the 1978 Richard Donner Superman film—it cannot […]

The 2014 movie God’s Not Dead is one of the most successful faith-based productions of all time, grossing more than $60 million worldwide. The movie, produced by Pure Flix Entertainment, tells the story of a […]