Recent films and TV series shine a light on the plight of aliens among us. Television and movie screens were chock-full of aliens this summer: scary...
TV and film
Directed by Matt Leonard (A Word on Fire/Picture Show Films Production, 2011) Father Robert Barron, a Chicago priest who has appeared often in the pages of...
Bren Ortega Murphy and Michael Whalen’s fascinating documentary, A Question of Habit, screened to a standing-room-only audience last month at Loyola...
Father Robert Barron, a Chicago priest who has appeared often in the pages of U.S. Catholic since his interview with the editors in 1997, has brought his...
Directed by John Madden (Marv Films, 2010) John Madden’s cagey thriller about three Mossad agents sent to capture a Nazi war criminal hiding out in East Berlin...
Directed by Cindy Meehl (Sundance Selects, 2011) In Genesis 2 God responds to Adam’s isolation by creating animals to provide the lonely human with companions...
Sister Rose Pacatte, a member of the Daughters of St. Paul who directs the Pauline Center for Media Studies in Los Angeles, talks about television being more...
The Tree of Life Directed by Terrence Malick (Fox Searchlight, 2011) Terrence Malick’s kaleidoscopic masterpiece about, well, everything raises several...
Midnight in Paris Directed by Woody Allen (Sony Pictures, 2011) When I was a doctoral student in Paris in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, I used to fantasize...
Collapse into now R.E.M. (Nonesuch Records, 2011) From a clamorous crescendo built slowly of distorted guitars, high-toned bass, and low, rumbling drums, R.E.M...
