We live in a culture that wants everything fast—success, influence, recognition. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but that’s not always how God works. He grows things slowly, starting small …
The last third stumbles, I think, in reaching for even larger themes while settling for a standard Hollywood heroes-vs.-villains action finale—but, thankfully, none of this detracts from what the film …
In the classic 1996 film “Jerry Maguire,” early on our hero, a highly successful agent representing athletes, has a crisis of conscience. In his epiphany, he realizes that his business …
Alas, between teaching both high school and university as well as my diaconal work, the only extracurricular writing I’ve been able to do is what I’ve called “quick wins”—i.e., short …
The beatification cause of Venerable Francis-Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan is receiving renewed attention from the Vatican 50 years after he was first imprisoned by the communist government of Vietnam, according …
If you’re as much a fan of writer-director Paul King’s two Paddington movies as I am, you may think of them often while watching this threequel, from first-time feature director …
Our dad loved John Wayne. If there was a John Wayne movie on TV on any Sunday afternoon, we were going to watch it. If there was a Duke movie …
Lovingly adapted from Stephen King’s novella of the same name, The Life of Chuck was written and directed by Mike Flanagan, for whom the material is so well suited that …
When Frank Johnson stopped seeing McIntosh apples on the shelves of his neighborhood Whole Foods a few years ago, he assumed supply chain problems caused a delay.Johnson is hardly an …
While this may not make it a great film, it does make Elio the kind of movie that will actually captivate young viewers in particular. Where other recent Pixar releases …
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