I was 12 when Raiders of the Lost Ark opened in 1981, and it changed my relationship with movies. I was already an avid moviegoer; what’s more, between the first two films in the Star […]
“You’re like me.” That simple phrase, repeated a number of times in 2018’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, is close to the film’s emotional center. Into the Spider-Verse is a layered movie brimming with ideas: It’s […]
There’s something profoundly melancholy about Disney returning, in its present state of creative exhaustion and corporate decadence, to The Little Mermaid—the nucleus from which the entire Disney renaissance exploded, in a way along with everything […]
The movie year 2011 was an extraordinary year in many respects, not least for notable religious themes on the big screen. Most memorably, the fact-based drama Of Gods and Men gave the world an indelible […]
Father Gabriele Amorth (1925-2016), the Italian Pauline priest who for many years served as the exorcist of the Diocese of Rome, performed tens of thousands of exorcisms and as a popular and prolific author warned […]
Everyone knows about Marian apparitions. Even in the minds of non-Catholics and nonbelievers, the names of Lourdes, Fátima, and Guadalupe are virtually synonymous with the Blessed Virgin Mary. Cotignac, in southeastern France, is a name […]
• Get tickets to Santiago: The Camino Within Like many people, I first learned about the Camino de Santiago, or Way of St. James, from the 2011 movie The Way. The Camino is a network […]
“They started with me on Diem, you remember: ‘He was corrupt, he ought to be killed,’ and so we killed him. We all got together and got a ***-damn bunch of thugs and assassinated him. […]
The 30th anniversary of Groundhog Day arrives this weekend overshadowed by recent reports of, and renewed attention to, allegations of inappropriate behavior by Bill Murray. Last month Geena Davis offered new details about an incident […]
The movie year 2022 was a year of memory and identity, with one film after another exploring how memory both gives us access to our past, to our roots, and also distorts and obscures the […]
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