The question of what makes a movie ideal for Christmas, the day we commemorate and celebrate Jesus’ birth, is subjective. It often depends completely on the...
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.
As student loan debt surpasses U.S. credit card debt, documentaries ask the tough questions about a college education. For at least the past 30 years, since...
Directed by Shawn Levy (Warner Bros., 2014) Following the death of the Altman family’s patriarch, his four children travel home to join their mother (Jane...
Directed by Phillip Noyce (The Weinstein Company, 2014) It is difficult to explain why a film fails where a book succeeds. Often it is because our imaginations...
Directed by Richard Linklater (IFC Films, 2014) Nothing happens except the passage of time. A little boy, age 6, opens the film. He lies on his back, head...
Directed by Lasse Hallström (Walt Disney Studio Motion Pictures, 2014) The sights and sounds—and tastes—of Mumbai, India fill the screen in...
How do comics walk the fine line between being hilarious and hurtful? It’s all in the delivery. Earlier this year the comic duo of Keegan-Michael Key and...
Directed by John Michael McDonagh (Fox Searchlight, 2014) Calvary, a theological black comedy (watch trailer here), is prefaced by a quote from St. Augustine:...
Pawel Pawlikowski’s gorgeously shot film about the odyssey of a young Polish nun offers a sympathetic meditation on the mystery of faith, both corporate and...
Flesh may be weak, but our skin is what holds us together and keeps us human. Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to computer systems that can do things we...
