Even in their autumn years, Baby Boomers discover that old dogs can learn new tricks. Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rage at...
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.
Created by David Simon (HBO Entertainment, 2012) David Simon, whose HBO series The Wire was the best cinematic novel ever produced for television, has...
Directed by Richard Linklater (Millennium Entertainment, 2012) At the end of Annie Hall Woody Allen tells a joke about a guy whose brother thinks he is a...
Directed by Nanni Moretti (Sundance Selects, 2012) Nanni Moretti’s lighthearted and melancholic comedy introduces us to a gentle and frail cleric who would not...
Directed by Asghar Farhadi (Sony Pictures, 2011) We all tell stories, and we all believe our stories are true. But the small gaps between our stories and the...
For most of the 20th century, movies and television have cast gay and lesbian characters as deviant bad guys. But as attitudes in the larger public change, so...
Directed by Stephen Daldry (Paramount, 2011) Jonathan Safran Foer’s 2005 novel about a 9-year-old boy whose father is killed on 9/11 angered and touched a lot...
Directed by Bennett Miller (Sony Pictures, 2011) Baseball can conjure up nostalgic images of peanuts and crackerjacks, sunny days, and cornfields in Iowa. But...
Hollywood’s leading actor shines in roles that show success doesn’t always bring happiness. My seventh-grade English teacher once asserted that...
Steven Spielberg’s latest film is a testament to war’s silent soldier. “Home is the sailor, home from the sea, and the hunter home from the...
