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Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
This month’s Catholic Book Club selection: ‘Silence’ by Shusaku Endo
The novel portrays two apostate Jesuit missionaries from the first half of the 17th century.
Posted inFilm, Politics & Society
The new Snowden movie is so bad it almost makes you forget how serious privacy issues are
For all Stone’s posturing as a filmmaking maverick, “Snowden” relies on every manner of movie convention and emotional shortcut.
Posted inArts & Culture, In All Things
David Oyelowo talks about faith and filming “Queen of Katwe”
The self-sacrifice of an individual and the self-possession of a community drew David Oyelowo to his role in “Queen of Katwe.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
The complicated life of Jesse Owens
“Race” is a movie about personal victory and national guilt—neither Hitler nor Franklin Roosevelt ever shook Owens’s hand.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
The horror of ‘Room’ is closer to a documentary than a fantasy
What gives “Room” its originality and power is its vision of a mother and a child literally clinging together to each in a situation beyond our imagining.
Posted inFaith, Of Other Things
Why you don’t have to love baseball to love ‘Field of Dreams’
The film is a beautiful reminder of the power of faith in things unseen.
Posted inFaith, Film
The Father’s Way: Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez on pilgrimages, family ties and their newest film.
Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez on pilgrimages, families ties and the creation of their newest film.
Posted inArts & Culture, In All Things
John Adams and the Jesuits
As you may have discerned from Matt Malone s posts a few of us at America are besotted with John Adams the second president that is not the composer Last night I watched an advance copy of the final episode of HBO s stupendous series John Adams starring Paul Giamatti and Laura Linne
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
His Dark Materials, Indeed: Is ‘The Golden Compass’ anti-Catholic?
‘The Golden Compass,’ reviewed