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Indiana Jones movies and Raiders of the Lost Ark: Why the original still stands alone

June 30, 2023 Steven D. Greydanus 20

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 […]

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Star Wars: The Rise of Nostalgia

December 17, 2019 Sean Fitzpatrick 9

For those who grew up a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, the final episode in the Star Wars saga, The Rise of Skywalker, promises an emotional conclusion to what was a […]

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How the “Star Wars” franchise lost its way

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What began forty years ago as a thrilling, cinematic exploration of the philosophia perennis has devolved into a vehicle for the latest trendy ideology—and that […]

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Looking ahead to October’s Extraordinary Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, which will consider “the pastoral challenges to the family in the context of evangelization,” Pope Francis has released a letter to families, asking for […]

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