Directed by Josh Boone (Fox 2000 Pictures, 2014) There’s no getting around it: This is a movie about kids with cancer. It’s going to make you cry...
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.
Directed by Diego Luna (Lionsgate, 2014) If you’re old enough to remember the United Farm Workers (UFW) grape boycotts that began in 1965, stretching...
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...
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...
