These stories remind us that while the fight for justice is never over, individuals can make a difference, often with the help of their faith.
Film
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Catholic Sex, Catholic Guilt and Catholic School: A review of indie comedy ‘Yes, God, Yes’
For young Catholics, puberty can feel like a minefield where one wrong sexually-charged step could have everlasting consequences.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
‘Flannery’ profiles one of literature’s miracles
“Flannery” is an apologia for O’Connor but, like any good defense, it takes the position that she doesn’t need one.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Ennio Morricone, composer of Spaghetti westerns and ‘The Mission,’ dead at 91
In 2014 Morricone premiered his first-ever Mass in the Church of the Gesu, the Jesuits’ main church in Rome.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Bryce Dallas Howard examines fatherhood in flux in ‘Dads’
Bryce Dallas Howard makes her directorial debut with the new documentary “Dads,” available from Apple TV+.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
‘Joan of Arc’ is one weird work of hagiography
The director Bruno Dumont has said that movies can “look beyond the visible to explore something that reason can’t.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
‘Blood Quantum’: a zombie film with a conscience
In “Blood Quantum,” the past isn’t dead—it’s coming to get you.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
A quirky St. Francis from a giant of Italian cinema
Encountering Roberto Rossellini’s “The Flowers of St. Francis,” which turns 70 this year, will be an odd experience for most first-timers.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always’: A searing but flawed film about abortion
For all its deft crafting of real-life detail, Eliza Hittman’s film never admits any reality besides abortion as saving grace.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
The 1995 film ‘Safe’ has new meaning during our coronavirus isolation
Todd Haynes’s second feature film, starring Julianne Moore as a woman isolated by a mysterious illness, resonates anew in our sudden quarantine, writes America’s Ryan Di Corpo.