In 2012 Sister Simone Campbell and the Catholic social justice lobby NETWORK launched the “Nuns on the Bus” tour to “live the biblical demand for social...
TV and film
Directed by Darren Aronofsky (Paramount Pictures, 2014) How do you hear a story again for the first time? This is a perennial challenge for all biblical films...
Directed by Arnaud Desplechin (IFC Films, 2014) Every once in a blue moon, Hollywood produces a movie demanding that we not just sit back and be entertained by...
Directed by George Clooney (Columbia Pictures, 2014) They didn’t storm the beaches at Normandy or liberate Paris. But the real-life “Monuments Men”—a special...
Ten years after the release of The Passion of the Christ, a renewed interest in biblical films has landed Jesus back in Hollywood. On Ash Wednesday, February...
Directed by John Lee Hancock (Walt Disney Studios, 2013) It’s not hard to find a film that centers on someone who is suffering. In fact, it’s...
Directed by Stephen Frears (The Weinstein Company, 2013) Philomena, Stephen Frears’ touching film about the quest of an elderly Irish woman to find the...
Hollywood’s recent flood of slavery-themed films might be a sign that our nation is finally ready to confront the sins of its past. Theodore Parker, the...
Directed by Steve McQueen (Fox Searchlight, 2013) Idyllic sunsets, moss-covered trees, chirping birds—in Steve McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave, this...
Movies can help us find perspective on our own existence by taking us to infinity and beyond. Hollywood and the film industry have been called many things...
