Month: November 2025

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Insofar as writer-director Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy) was hired to make an definitive break from the nihilistic, grimdark Snyderverse DC movies and recover a sense of Superman as a …

In July of last year I interviewed filmmaker Tim Moriarty for The Catholic Spirit in connection with his documentary Jesus Thirsts: The Miracle of the Eucharist. His latest nonfiction film, …

I have long been proud of my kids for having spontaneously decided, many years ago, to give up all video games every Lent, except on Sunday afternoons and on any …

The phenomenon of “twin movies”—two or more films with strikingly similar plots or subject matter released in close proximity—is almost as old as Hollywood itself. I remember a remarkable string …

G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) in an undated photo. (Wikipedia) I Also Had My Hour: An Alternative Autobiography of G.K. Chesterton by Dale Ahlquist is a unique and engaging work: a retelling …