“Wildcat,” the new film by Ethan Hawke about the life of Flannery O’Connor, is not your typical biopic, a fact that seems entirely appropriate since O’Connor is not your typical writer.
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Catholic Movie Club: ‘Poltergeist’ and the horrors beneath the American Dream
The Freelings are ignorant of the sacrilege that made their luxurious life possible, but that doesn’t mean they’re innocent.
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Review: With ‘Killers of the Flower Moon,’ Martin Scorsese won’t absolve America of its original sins
“Killers of the Flower Moon” makes a case that 80 is the new 30: Martin Scorsese, the most prominent of American auteurs and champion of film history, continues as an octogenarian to explore and expand the possibilities of the medium and scour his own soul.
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Catholic Movie Club: ‘Coraline’ is a love story with an edge
So much of growing up is learning what love really is. ‘Coraline’ reminds us what love is not.
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You won’t have any clue what Catholic exorcists do after suffering through ‘The Exorcist: Believer’
Why can’t Hollywood reinvent ‘The Exorcist’? Money, lots of it, can be the only reason why any studio would invest in this franchise.
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Catholic Movie Club: ‘The Sixth Sense’ opens our eyes to the wonder of faith (and dead people)
In “The Sixth Sense,” faith is both a sanctuary and a gateway to mystery and horror.
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Catholic Movie Club: ‘Wit’ is a film that stares death squarely in the eyes
In ‘Wit,‘ Dr. Vivian Bearing uses her formidable intellect as a shield against her existential terror.
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So fetch: What ‘Mean Girls’ can teach you about your spiritual life
Popularity. Temptation. Vanity. Wearing Pink on Wednesdays.
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‘Peggy Sue Got Married’ asks: What if you could do it all over again?
This is what Peggy Sue learns: we all want a second chance at the past, but the real second chances only happen in the here and now.
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Hollywood isn’t always kind to nuns. ‘The Bells of St. Mary’s’ was an exception.
The caricatured or fetishized images of sisters we often see in movies are a far cry from the real sisters I, and probably you, have known.