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 […]
This article aims to serve as a follow-up to the Lenten playlist which Catholic World Report ran last month. The same general criteria for selecting works apply here as applied there: no instances of pure […]
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