It’s the first Friday in Lent, and you know what that means: Mandatory Lent Film Party! At least, that’s what it means at our house.
Film
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
The Problem With Hate-Watching the Rich
Some of the most buzzed-about shows of the past five years invite us to wallow in the foibles and frustrations of high-net-worth characters.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Movie Club
Catholic Movie Club: How ‘Moonlight’ deals with identity, maturity and men’s friendships
A conversation on Barry Jenkins’ Oscar-winning film for Black History month.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Movie Club
‘Love and Basketball’: a seminal Black love story about desire, discernment and expectations
Monica and Quincy are competitive basketball players whose drive to succeed often clashes with their feelings for each other.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Movie Club
Hard truths, Catholics and women in Hollywood: takeaways from this year’s Oscar noms
America’s Catholic Movie Club columnist looks at this year’s crop of contenders.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Movie Club
In ‘Moneyball,’ it takes a prophet to bring change to baseball
Catholic Movie Club: Institutions don’t change easily.
Posted inFaith, Features
Exclusive: Martin Scorsese on ‘Killers of the Flower Moon,’ the American Dream and his new film about Jesus
The struggle for faith ‘is a struggle from which everything else emanates,’ says the storied director.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Movie Club
Catholic Movie Club: In Jane Austen’s ‘Emma,’ change isn’t up to us alone. It’s up to God, too.
If we really resolve to change for the better as Emma does, we can count on some grace to help us along.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Hayao Miyazaki’s films teach an essential lesson: Give the world something beautiful
Hayao Miyazaki’s influence is so massive that it’s hard not to understate it.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Timothée Chalamet is a milquetoast Christ in ‘Wonka’
How did this Wonka, unfazed and insisting that salvation is at hand, become the jaded, suspicious entity we know he will become?