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Jim McDermott, S.J., is an associate editor at America.
Film
Jim McDermott
Last month saw the debut of “White House Down,” the second “bad guys somehow manage to successfully invade the White House” film of recent months (along with March’s “Olympus Has Fallen”). Racking in poor reviews and limited box office, “White House Do
Television
Jim McDermott
Salvation and surprise in HBO's 'Game of Thrones'
Kerry WeberJim McDermottOlga Segura
In the pilot episode of “Girls,” the much-discussed HBO series now in its second season, Hannah, the show’s main character, gets high, gets angsty and gets worried looks from her parents when she describes the importance of her partly-completed memoir. Groggy, she announces: &ldquo
Television
Jim McDermott
Odds are, if you have checked out the entertainment section of a newspaper recently, you have heard something about House of Cards, Netflix’s first major original series. Perhaps you have heard the fact that in February Netflix released all 13 episodes of the program’s first season at on
Film
Jim McDermott

Daniel Craig explores Bond’s damaged soul in 'Skyfall'

In All Things
Jim McDermott
This music video is floating through the byways of Facebook these days It has absolutely nothing to do with 9 11 nothing but something of the spirit of it captures my own hopes for our world 10 years later nbsp And if you need yet another 9 11 piece to read I wrote this for Eureka Stree
In All Things
Jim McDermott
Monday night on the Daily Show Jon Stewart described the collapse in the stock market investment in favor of U S Treasury bonds as akin to a guy torching your house and then asking if he can store his cash in your basement nbsp There rsquo s also something of Heisenberg rsquo s Uncertainty Princ
In All Things
Jim McDermott
Today Oprah Winfrey signs off after 25 years on daytime television It has been by any estimation an astonishing career In episodes 4561 Emmys 48 guests 30 000 -- including at least one Jesuit gifts given books promoted money made -- even in that most unusual of daytime television cat
In All Things
Jim McDermott
In mid-March Archbishop Raymond Burke spoke in Sydney to the Australian Catholic Students Association His talk entitled The Fall of the Christian West considers the grave evils which beset the world -- the sexual abuse of minors pornography sexual tourism drug abuse abortion embryonic st
In All Things
Jim McDermott
Jon Stewart and his Daily Show are known at this point for their ability to reveal the contradictions in political spin and cable news speak and to provide some catharsis in the midst of frustrating or bizarre social and political developments nbsp Usually they do it in a way intended to make the