Jesus never missed an opportunity to turn a meal into a meaningful encounter. He had a deep awareness of the transformative capacity of sharing food. Some of...
TV and film
The Northman Directed by Robert Eggers (Focus Features, 2022) Director Robert Eggers has already built a name for himself as an auteur of the grotesque...
A century and a half ago, Jules Verne wrote Around the World in Eighty Days, and readers began to imagine that the world might be shrinking a wee bit. The new...
The French Dispatch Directed by Wes Anderson (American Empirical Pictures, 2021) The French Dispatch is a paean to highbrow, narrative journalism. With poetic...
Cyrano Directed by Joe Wright (United Artists Releasing, 2022) If I had to pick one word to describe Cyrano, it would be human. The thrill of first love, the...
By now it’s become a cliché that the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed social and economic ills that America long swept under the rug. Low wages, weak workplace...
Who were you before you were born? Who will you be after you die? In church circles the responses to these questions might quickly move in the direction of...
The Fallout Directed by Megan Park (SSS Entertainment, 2021) “I feel so empty,” 16-year-old Vada (Jenna Ortega) tells her father in The Fallout, writer and...
In the Disney film Encanto, the Madrigal family’s story begins when Abuela and Abuelo flee civil war in their home country of Colombia. Abuelo sacrifices...
Luca Directed by Enrico Casarosa (Disney/Pixar, 2021) With Disney/Pixar dominating mainstream theatrical releases for the past 20 years, you likely are not...
