Arts & Culture

Explore Catholic arts and culture through critical reviews, interviews, and essays, on creativity, beauty, and faith.

Gran Torino

Directed by Clint Eastwood (Warner Brothers, 2008) For three decades Clint Eastwood made his bread and butter celebrating the American myth of heroic violence...

Moral Kombat

How much should we worry about the daily dose of interactive, virtual murder and mayhem in our kids’ lives? Video games first came to an arcade or home...

Slumdog Millionaire

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...

All Rebel Rockers

Michael Franti and Spearhead (ANTI, 2008) Michael Franti has been knocking around the fringes of the rock and rap scene for almost 20 years. Franti first...

Reality bites back

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...

Reel politics

Hollywood tells us that cleaning up Washington depends on the integrity of those we send there. But that’s only part of the story. Soon the 2008...