Summer blockbusters may seem like mindless entertainment, but two of this year’s big films offered viewers more to chew on than popcorn. The ancient...
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 Joss Whedon (Lionsgate, 2013) After creating Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, Dr. Horrible, and successfully directing the latest Avengers films...
Yet another bout of end-times hysteria is sweeping the nation, or at least our flat screen TVs. But this time there’s a twist. In recent years the earth has...
Directed by Michael Apted (ITV Studios, 2012) It all started in 1964 with Seven Up!, a one-hour BBC documentary meant to show Great Britain its future through...
Directed by Richard Linklater (Sony Pictures, 2013) What might we learn if we could watch a relationship develop over a lifetime? Before Midnight, the third...
By Faythe Levine & Sam Macon (Radar Studios, 2013) A commercial building in my neighborhood recently underwent renovations to transform the space into a...
Directed by Pablo Larraín (Sony Pictures, 2012) Topple a dictator with a rainbow and a jingle? Lash back against oppression with candy-coated images and...
Directed by Terrence Malick (Redbud Pictures, 2013) Over the course of 40 years auteur filmmaker Terrence Malick has made just five feature films. Yet these...
Directed by Dustin Hoffman (Weinstein Company, 2012) Imagine a kindergarten full of wildly talented octogenarians preparing to put on a school musical and you...
Directed by Gus Van Sant (Focus Features, 2013) The film Promised Land asks the question: Who is the bad guy? Is it the big, greedy company that wants to...
