Culture
Film director aims to ‘make movies a good spiritual experience’
Patricia Riggen, the Mexican-American filmmaker who directed the upcoming movie "The 33" about the Chilean miners' rescue in 2010, freely told the story of the strong faith of the miners, with no pressure from the film studio.
Comedy is a casualty of ideology in ‘Our Brand Is Crisis’
Any amusement that might be derived from the movie's political jockeying, which is tinged with a mix of cynicism and simplistic idealism, loses out to a very specific Hollywood agenda: Left is right, and right is wrong.
Look at Roman empress offers good introduction to fifth century
For the most part, readers of "Rome's Christian Empress" see mere glimpses of this fifth-century member of the Theodosian imperial line, whose different family branches ruled both Ravenna and Constantinople for a few decades.
Movie review: Jem and the Holograms
Coming across the title "Jem and the Holograms" (Universal), those unfamiliar with the source material -- an animated television series from the 1980s -- might assume this is a sci-fi-oriented action-fantasy with a youngish heroine. They would be half right.
Movie review: Rock the Kasbah
The idea behind "Rock the Kasbah" (Open Road) is that cheerful, wisecracking show-business survival skills can overcome peril in exotic settings.
Movie review: The Last Witch Hunter
Trick-or-treaters beware: "The Last Witch Hunter" (Summit) is on the prowl, ferreting out ghouls and goblins, with a noble priest as an unexpected ally.
Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension
A horror franchise once noted for its restrained use of violence and clever methods of building suspense reaches the point of creative exhaustion with its sixth -- and apparently final -- chapter, "Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension" (Paramount).
Letters between Trappist and his editors explore obedience, conscience
These two books give readers both sides of Father Merton's written conversations with two of his more prominent correspondents, editor Robert Giroux (1914-2008) and English novelist Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966).
Movie review: Steve Jobs
As the lively profile of a wildly successful uber-geek, "Steve Jobs" (Universal) is likely to appeal to many a youthful tech fan.
Next year’s new take on the biblical epic ‘Ben-Hur’
This fourth big-screen adaptation of Civil War Gen. Lew Wallace's epic 1880 novel, "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ," is produced by the husband-and-wife team of Roma Downey and Mark Burnett.