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Ignatian spirituality in ‘Wonder Woman 1984’: The line between greed and the true more of ‘magis’
Tucker Redding, S.J. December 30, 2020
She has faced ultra-powerful, god-like monsters. This time the true opponent is quite different.
Frances McDormand in “Nomadland,” which played at film festivals in 2020 and will be released to theaters in February 2021. Photo Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures. © 2020 20th Century Studios All Rights Reserved.
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2020 in review: Some of the best films you should see from a surreal year for cinema
John Anderson December 30, 2020
Have we seen the end of motion pictures as we knew them?
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Pixar’s ‘Soul’ imagines life after death (and before birth). What does Catholic teaching say?
Molly Cahill December 24, 2020
“Our bodies are mortal, but our soul is, by its nature, immortal and created to spend eternity with God,” says Dawn Eden Goldstein.
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Catholicism gave ‘The Godfather’ gravitas. Why didn’t it redeem ‘The Godfather III’?
John Anderson December 11, 2020
The last movie in his “Godfather” trilogy was critically eviscerated when it debuted, and “The Godfather: Coda, The Death of Michael Corleone” seems a last-ditch effort to redeem the film.
Abdul-mateen II As Bobby Seale, Ben Shenkman as Leonard Weinglass, Mark Rylance as William Kuntsler, Eddie Redmayne as Tom Hayden, and Alex Sharp as Rennie Davis in ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ (photo: Nico Tavernise/Netflix).
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Review: Aaron Sorkin’s new Netflix film ‘Chicago 7’ is like the ‘The Mid-West Wing’
John Anderson October 16, 2020
That “Chicago 7” is turning up on Netflix at this precise moment is no accident, the moment being serious.
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Review: A new documentary on Martin Luther King Jr. and the F.B.I.’s toxic relationship
Ryan Di Corpo September 25, 2020
The toxic relationship between the F.B.I. and Martin Luther King Jr. is the subject of the highly-anticipated documentary “MLK/FBI.”
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