MPAA Rating: PG-13 USCCB Rating: A-II Reel Rating: The Hunger Games film series, based on the best-selling young adult novels (2008-10) by Suzanne Collins, began in 2012 as fairly standard dystopian fantasy, admittedly grim but […]
With the opening of Mockingjay Part 2 on November 19, the cinematic telling of the story of Katniss Everdeen comes to a close. The Hunger Games series has been wildly popular, and many consider Katniss […]
My great mentor Msgr. Robert Sokolowski told a class of eager philosophy students many years ago that we should read Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics every year of our lives. As we grew older, he explained, new […]
It’s hard to say what exactly happened here. When the Bond reboot of the Daniel Craig era began with Casino Royale there was a sense that while all the trappings of the cinema icon were […]
Spectre, the latest installment in Daniel Craig’s incarnation of the James Bond character, opens with an eerie sentence spread across the screen: “The dead are alive.” The camera then plunges into an elongated opening shot […]
MPAA Rating: PG USCCB Rating: A-II Reel Rating: Early in Genndy Tartakovsky’s Hotel Transylvania 2, Wayne the werewolf’s four dozen children are running through Count Dracula’s luxury resort destroying everything in their path. When confronted, […]
Ridley Scott’s The Martian is a splendidly told tale of survival and pluck, reminiscent of the novel Robinson Crusoe and the films Life of Pi and Castaway. In this case, the hero is Mark Watney, […]
Spy films have routinely titillated American audiences at least since the Cold War, and this year is no exception, with Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., American Ultra, Agent 47, and Spectre all hitting theaters. What is it […]
Editor’s note: This is an abridged and otherwise edited version of a lecture given at the Caroline Chisholm (Catholic) Library, Melbourne, on July 7, 2015. +++ At the very start, I want to explain that […]
In the midst of the day’s work, a little break is always welcome. Sometimes this takes the form of a clever YouTube diversion recommended by a friend. For example, a recent favorite of mine was […]
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