Culture
Director of Signis Award-winning film just hoped to ‘make a good movie’
It's easier to win an award at the annual Sundance Film Festival, because Sundance gives so many of them, than to win the Signis Award in the United States.
The Female Thor: Is She Worthy?
When Marvel Comics announced that they would be transforming Thor, one of their most popular and masculine heroes, into a female character, the response was swift and hostile.
Famed Italian composer Morricone premieres first Mass at Jesuit church
A parishioner of a historic Roman church, Ennio Morricone composed the Mass to mark the 200th anniversary of the universal reconstitution of the Society of Jesus.
Historical overview of modern papacy shows political ups and downs
Although popes are first and foremost heads of the Catholic Church, political issues historically have rivaled spiritual ones as topics of concern.
Seriousness gets chewed up, spit out by ‘Jurassic World’
The latest sequel in the groundbreaking Jurassic Park series is a summer blockbuster whose action scenes are huge but storytelling is puny.
‘Love & Mercy’: An intelligent Beach Boys biopic
Great art arising from unremitting suffering is a time-tested movie theme. And the subject for this new film is the troubled genius that is band founder Brian Wilson.
Anglican theologian explores how we should speak about God
"The Edge of Words," by former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, discusses the importance and the limitations of our words about God.
More yawns than screams from ‘Insidious’ prequel
Though language and subject matter put "Insidious: Chapter 3" beyond the appropriate reach of youths, mature moviegoers will find comparatively little to object to.
The ‘Spy’ who satirized me: Vulgarity trumps film’s fun
Sophomoric stupidity and crude material stain this otherwise sharply observed and cleverly executed espionage comedy (if that's a genre).
Movie review: Entourage
Faint glimmers of morality can be discerned amid the decadence of "Entourage" (Warner Bros.), a comedy that simultaneously satirizes and wallows in Hollywood excess.