Opinion

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 solemnities. Carlo Acutis, though, was next level. At eight years old, he was given a PlayStation console — and he resolved to limit himself ... read more

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 of them in the 1990s (among others, two 1993 Wyatt Earp movies, two talking-piglet family films in 1994/95, and three 1997 volcano disaster movies). ... read more