Steven Spielberg’s latest film is a testament to war’s silent soldier. “Home is the sailor, home from the sea, and the hunter home from the...
Author - Patrick McCormick
The Artist Directed by Michel Hazanavicius (Weinstein, 2011) Those not captivated by Michel Hazanavicius’s silent movie must have a tin ear where their heart...
The Ides of March Directed by George Clooney (Columbia Pictures, 2011) As the title suggests, George Clooney’s cynical drama about a presidential campaign is a...
The Way Directed by Emilio Estevez (Arc Entertainment, 2011) If contemplation, as the mystic and spiritual writer William McNamara once said, is “a long...
Directed by Lee Fulkerson (Monica Beach Media, 2011) Lee Fulkerson’s version of an old medical joke would go something like this. “Doctor,” the patient...
Recent films and TV series shine a light on the plight of aliens among us. Television and movie screens were chock-full of aliens this summer: scary...
Directed by John Madden (Marv Films, 2010) John Madden’s cagey thriller about three Mossad agents sent to capture a Nazi war criminal hiding out in East Berlin...
By Charles E. Curran (Georgetown University Press, 2011) Catholic social teaching has been described as the church’s “best kept secret,” and 130 years after...
Directed by Cindy Meehl (Sundance Selects, 2011) In Genesis 2 God responds to Adam’s isolation by creating animals to provide the lonely human with companions...
The Tree of Life Directed by Terrence Malick (Fox Searchlight, 2011) Terrence Malick’s kaleidoscopic masterpiece about, well, everything raises several...
