It may take true grit to avenge a murder, but the gritty truth is that revenge only works in the movies. I grew up watching Westerns like other boomers, so...
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.
It's a safe bet that Sister Rose Pacatte watches more TV and movies than you do. She even has TiVo, which only seriously addicted TV watchers will admit to...
The King’s Speech directed by Tom Hooper (Weinstein, 2010) In a season of gunslingers (True Grit) and brawlers (The Fighter), Tom Hooper has made a touching...
Tangled Directed by Nathan Greno and Byron Howard (Disney, 2010) Like dozens of its predecessors, Disney’s 50th animated feature film transforms a fairy tale...
Hereafter Directed by Clint Eastwood (Warner Brothers, 2010) For almost half a century Clint Eastwood has been making films about death, but nearly all of...
The Town Directed by Ben Affleck (Warner Brothers, 2010) During the Depression Warner Brothers earned much of its weekly paycheck with gangster movies in which...
Directed by Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith (First Run Features, 2009) Plato believed some stories need to be told over and over, fed to our children like...
Directed by Lee Unkrich (Disney/Pixar, 2010) In the third chapter of Pixar’s saga about a boy’s toys, the plastic and wooden playthings that fill...
Directed by Niels Arden Oplev (Music Box Films, 2009) Fans of the late Stieg Larsson’s crime trilogy (a dark Harry Potter for adult murder mystery fans) will...
Babies directed by Thomas Balmés (Focus Features, 2010) French filmmaker Thomas Balmés had a simple and brilliant idea: Put four babies in front of a camera...
