‘Marty, Life is Short’ gives an honest look at Martin Short’s past, one that is scattered with loss. But he has never stopped laughing or making others laugh.
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Catholic Movie Club: ‘The Mill and the Cross’ and making art in dark times
“The Mill and the Cross” tells the story of the painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder and the creation of his famous work “The Procession to Calvary.”
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‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ stays true to its predecessor—and to the fashion world it inhabits.
“The Devil Wears Prada” became truly iconic for depicting the allure of the fashion world with accuracy and complexity. After an original film that is such a big hit, doing a sequel is always a challenge. But I think “DWP2” checks all the boxes.
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‘The Sheep Detectives’: The death of a Good Shepherd
In “The Sheep Detectives,” it falls to the sheep to find justice for their fallen shepherd.
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Star Wars Day is a chance to practice curiosity
What if, instead of hunkering down in our own stories, we got curious about other people’s lives?
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The superficial Catholic symbolism of ‘Mother Mary’
The relationship between pop stardom and religious worship has rarely been so literal as it is in “Mother Mary,” the new film from David Lowery.
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Martin Scorsese’s final interview with Pope Francis
The feature-length documentary “Aldeas, the Final Dream of Pope Francis” features hitherto unseen footage of the two men in conversation, including what filmmakers say is the last video interview Pope Francis gave before his death.
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Even as the subject of a documentary, SNL’s Lorne Michaels is a bit of a mystery
Lorne Michaels is well known to fans of ‘Saturday Night Live,’ yet not much is known about him.
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Catholic Movie Club: What Frederick Wiseman’s ‘Essene’ reveals about monastic life
In “Essene” (1972), Wiseman gave us a glimpse into life in an Anglican Benedictine monastery in Michigan, at a time of transition in American social, political and religious life.
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Catholic Movie Club: An atheist on the transformative power of Christ’s Passion
In ‘Jesus of Montreal,’ the characters discover truth in Jesus’ story, and want to convey that truth to others—an experience that audiences can also share.