On the morning of August 25, 1954, New York Times readers found much of Page One devoted to the news that Brazil’s president Getúlio Vargas – who had dominated his nation’s politics for a quarter […]
What do the classic movie It’s a Wonderful Life, Jesus Christ, and high school football players with tears in their eyes have in common? Quite a bit, says actor Jim Caviezel, whose new movie, When […]
On the face of it, the newly-released film, Desire of the Everlasting Hills, has a typical plot. A man is looking for a soul mate to fulfill him, and then the soul mate is found—but […]
Strange how certain extremely famous creators are not really famous after all. For proof of this sub-Chestertonian paradox, consult Franz Joseph Haydn, who seems in many respects the musical counterpart to Mark Twain’s definition of […]
Critics hate Michael Bay’s Transformers movies, but audiences still spend billions of dollars to view these special effects-laden thrill rides. The fourth entry in the franchise, Transformers: Age of Extinction, is the longest of the […]
Actress Olivia Hussey was so sick during the filming of the movie Mother Teresa that she could have easily given up. During intense moments, she felt she lacked the strength and health to continue. But one […]
Among the last 50 years’ most unfortunate historical illiteracies has been the myth that it took Vatican II to bring about the most elementary courtesy between Catholics and non-Catholics. Before 1962, the legend goes, Catholics […]
MPAA Rating: PG-13 USCCB Rating: A-III Reel Rating: (4 Reels out of 5) Godzilla films can be placed in two camps. The first involves Godzilla as a destructive force of nature leveling retributive justice on […]
So, which of the following was true of the day I tried to sit down with my BFF and watch Moms’ Night Out? A. I had a “moment” wherein I threw out my coffee, locked […]
Neil deGrasse Tyson—the prominent astrophysicist and science popularizer whose reboot of Cosmos is currently airing on Fox and the National Geographic Channel—was asked a few years ago “which books should be read by every single […]
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