Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Directed by Rian Johnson (Netflix, 2022) The years between 1920 and 1940 were an era of extreme income inequality, excessive...
TV and film
Orson Scott Card has written that the world of science fiction is like the stable in C.S. Lewis’s The Last Battle: much larger on the inside than the outside...
God’s Country Directed by Julian Higgins (Cold Iron Pictures, 2022) “Let’s learn his language . . . if he only understands the language of a rifle, get a...
A television series doesn’t have to tell all the truths about life, so it’s forgivable that Netflix’s Firefly Lane is a bit myopic in its narrative of two...
Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom Directed by Stanley Nelson and Nicole London (Firelight Films, 2022) Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom, streaming on PBS...
Recently, I taught a high school theology class on the first story of creation in Genesis, Chapter 1. Thankfully, I was influenced by biblical scholar and...
Tár Directed by Todd Field (Standard Film Company, 2022) Todd Field’s powerhouse drama Tár topped the list of 2022’s most thrillingly original films. The...
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Developed by J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay (Amazon Studios, 2022) Catholic tradition has always held evil to be a...
Little Demon Created by Darcy Fowler, Seth Kirschner, and Kieran Valla (FXX, 2022) Little Demon is equal parts bildungsroman and spiritual farce. The pilot...
My all-time favorite movie—not just favorite Christmas movie—is It’s a Wonderful Life. Plenty of ink has been spilled over this movie, sometimes revering it as...
