Instead of engaging women as persons, the film instrumentalizes them to push a political agenda.
Film
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Renowned atheist is hated, murdered, revived in new Netflix film
“The Most Hated Woman in America” indicts Madalyn Murray O’Hair as no better than the corrupt religious leaders that she railed against.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
‘Call the Midwife’ on PBS shows the beauty of serving others
One of the most compassionate shows on television, “Call the Midwife,” returns this Sunday, April 2, for its sixth season.
Posted inJesuitical, Politics & Society
Be our guest! Ep: 6 of jesuitical
I’m a purist. Which means I didn’t see Disney’s remake of “Beauty and the Beast.” But it didn’t stop my co-hosts from seeing it and inviting on a Jesuit to talk all things Disney. Alfonso Pizano, S.J., spent 14 years working at Disneyland, “where he piloted the monorail, sailed submarines, hawked souvenirs and danced in […]
Posted inArts & Culture, Short Take
Trump’s cuts to the arts are threatening this Jesuit priest’s documentary on Flannery O’Connor
How unfortunate that the arts are caught in the cross-hairs of a ruptured and increasingly misguided political system.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
Pope Francis on Netflix: from the slums of Argentina to the halls of the Vatican
“Call Me Francis” is unafraid to delve into Francis’ intellectual conflicts. But neither is it afraid to be funny.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
“Frantz” may be the most Christian film you will see this year.
François Ozon directs a parable set in the years immediately following World War I.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Can movies like “Get Out” scare us into being better people?
Under the jump scares and the improvised weapons “Get Out” is subtle and disturbing.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Scientology deserves your compassion: An interview with filmmaker Louis Theroux
Louis Theroux’s curiosity, open-mindedness and consternation is exactly why his films are successful; he will never run out of questions.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
A British Cult of Personality takes on the Cult of Scientology
“His attempts to gain access to the church even led Scientologists to set their own cameramen on Theroux, taunting him that they were making a documentary, too.”