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...
TV and film
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...
Heartland is a family show without corruption or treachery, a cowboy show that focuses on women, and a western show set not in the United States but in...
I recently found myself in conversation on St. Pope John Paul II’s classic 1999 Letter to Artists. In it he writes about how these “ingenious creators of...
