When Katherine Winter (Hilary Swank) investigates seemingly miraculous phenomena, she tells her students, she has a perfect record […]
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I love short films, which is what I program at the Newport Beach Film Festival. Like short stories, […]
[Since this is still in theaters, advance warning that there is a spoiler in this piece.] Guy Ritchie’s […]
“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that […]
The person of Jesus of Nazareth remains a compelling figure even for those who do not believe He […]
Thanks to Elijah Davidson and Brehm Film (sign up for their newsletter and you will be notified of […]
After Stagecoach (1939) and The Grapes of Wrath (1940), but before The Quiet Man (1952) and The Searchers […]
I have somehow avoided, for all of my post-18-year-old years, having to serve on a jury. The only […]
To continue a thought from the last thing I wrote, horror movies can, on the one hand, serve […]
Euthanasia is a euphemism. They share a Greek root for the word “good,” “eu-.” “Eu-phemism” means, literally, to […]
I have been thinking, on and off, over the last year about the vanity and futility of life […]
There are very few popular authors that I will always read. Michael Connelly is one of them. Not […]
I am not a fan of “Christian” movies. It is almost always bad (in multiple senses) when the […]
All it takes is one sentence, one insult, and (as St. James puts it) see how great a […]
Before 90 Minutes in Heaven, Heaven is For Real, and The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven (since […]
For a while now, I have been trying to put my finger on the moment film crosses the […]
A few months ago, on Saints and Cinema, we had a conversation with writer/director Chris White and John […]
To start with something completely different from Preparations to Be Together For an Unknown Period of Time (2020; […]
Both the poster and the trailer for Pig (2021; in theaters and for rent on Amazon and iTunes) […]
A couple years ago, I started offering to my congregation Matins on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of Holy […]