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...
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.
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...
Directed by Alfonso Cuarón (Warner Bros., 2013) Films like Alfonso Cuarón’s magnificent Gravity are few and far between. Too often...
What do a time-traveling alien and the influential church council have in common? More than you might think. Fifty years ago, under the loving guidance of Pope...
Directed by Michael McGowan (Samuel Goldwyn, 2013) In Michael McGowan’s touching love story about an aging married couple, Craig and Irene Morrison...
