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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
With "The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies" (Warner Bros.), director Peter Jackson's trilogy of films based on Catholic writer J.R.R. Tolkien's 1937 fantasy novel "The Hobbit, or There and Back Again" reaches a rousing finale.
Author offers readable biography of anti-Nazi Lutheran theologian
In "Strange Glory," Charles Marsh has written a definitive biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, one of the most inspiring Christian minds of the 20th century.
‘Top Five’ bottoms out with its look of love
The Chris Rock film is well intentioned but comes wrapped in layers of smutty humor that suffocate its fundamentally honorable message about the redeeming power of love.
‘Exodus: Gods and Kings’ epic in scope, but a bit boring
Characters pale before the big-budget 3D effects of the latest biblical blockbuster. Viewers will wander in the desert with Moses for two and a half hours, though it might seem like 40 years.
New books illuminate St. Katharine’s interior life
This Christmas season offers two new biographies of St. Katharine Drexel, each of which contributes in different ways to a fuller understanding of Philadelphia’s only home-grown saint.
Sacred and human: New Washington art exhibit shows both sides of Mary
If the saints, because of their sheer holiness, can sometimes seem hard to relate to, the life of Mary, the mother of Jesus, can seem even more distant. But a new exhibition of Western European artwork portraying Mary during the 14th through the 17th centuries shows her in another light and reminds viewers that she was indeed human.
University programs go along with art exhibition of Mary in Washington
A current exhibition depicting images of Mary by Renaissance and Baroque artists does not stop at the walls of the Washington's National Museum of Women in the Arts.
Film offers ‘renewed understanding’ of Mary’s importance to church
A film director raised in Longmont is taking on Mary's story with a new film in production in Hollywood. "She was the first one to say 'Yes' to Christ, to take on this whole idea of being the Mother of all of us."
‘The Theory of Everything’: A story of ‘When Faith Met Science’
There was a big bang, then over time they drifted apart. That's the cosmological premise of the new bio film of professor Stephen Hawking's early romance and marriage to a deeply religious woman that sizzled then fizzled.
Movie review: Horrible Bosses 2
In the 2011 original to which "Horrible Bosses 2" (Warner Bros.) serves as a follow-up, a trio of bunglers set out to murder the workplace superiors who were making their lives miserable.