Directed by Pete Docter (Pixar, 2009) Ask anybody under 30 and they will tell you that Pixar is the animation studio. But the company that has stunned us with...
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 Stephen Daldry (The Weinstein Co., 2008) In traditional coming-of-age tales, sexuality opens up new worlds for a young man, and the first affair...
Directed by Christine Jeffs and Megan Holley (Overture Films, 2009) Christine Jeffs and Megan Holley's touching film about a spunky but dysfunctional...
DuplicityDirected by Tony Gilroy (Universal, 2009) They don’t make them like this anymore. They try often enough, but only once in a blue...
Milk Directed by Gus Van Sant (Focus Features, 2008) As Sean Penn plays him in Gus Van Sant’s new biopic, Harvey Milk is no Jackie Robinson, Rosa Parks...
Directed by Clint Eastwood (Warner Brothers, 2008) For three decades Clint Eastwood made his bread and butter celebrating the American myth of heroic violence...
Live-in couples are caught in a subculture of sex without commitment, says Father Andrew Greeley. But when they finally decide to get married, the church (and...
Directed by David Fincher (Paramount Pictures, 2008) David Fincher’s movie version of a farcical short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald tells the backwards...
Directed by Danny Boyle (Fox Searchlight, 2008) Just in time for our now officially recognized global recession, British film maker Danny Boyle has created a...
New show ideas are endless—and depressing—when real life is the true basis of TV. Thank you, Heidi Montag and your castmates—I mean...
