A breeze of community drifted through the room, enough to clear the auditorium’s often stifling pre-movie silence. Everyone who came for the screening of...
TV and film
Browse through a collection of commentaries and reflections that look at modern television and film—from The Chosen to Star Wars—through a Catholic lens.
“Do you want to play?” Leave it to the endearing and ever insightful Toy Story series to turn such a childhood question into a fraught and penetrating...
The Sheep Detectives Directed by Kyle Balda (Amazon MGM Studios, 2026) “Who is God?” Not far into the film, The Sheep Detectives, out of the mouths of sheep...
Why do we like to watch people shoot one another? On film and television screens, we shock, frighten, and torment ourselves with scenes of killing. We scare...
Over Your Dead Body Directed by Jorma Taccone (Independent Film Company, 2026) Over Your Dead Body is a lot of things. It is not just a comedy; it is an action...
Toward the end of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, Odysseus (played by Matt Damon) utters a despairing line clearly influenced by a Talmudic aphorism that’s...
Laura Esquivel’s 1989 novel Like Water for Chocolate (Doubleday) captured the public imagination with its story of cuisine prepared with such emotion that...
“She had an insane experience where she wanted to die and decided to devote her life to something [after], and then other people came in and were a part of it...
Not every love story is a romance. Some love stories—the ones rooted in reality and humanity—are also stories of the cultural fissures in a particular historic...
Almost from its beginnings, the U.S. movie industry has been associated with liberal politics. In the 1930s, most of Hollywood’s actors actively supported...
