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The Wild Robot
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 …
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Pope Leo Has a Jerry Maguire Moment on Sex Abuse…
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 …
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SDG’s Top 10 Christmas movies list!
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 …
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Vatican Urges Faithful to Revive Efforts for Sainthood Cause of Cardinal Van Thuan…
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 …
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Paddington in Peru is pleasant, underachieving nonsense
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 …
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Days Before Murder, Charlie Kirk Told California Bishop: ‘I’m This Close’ to Becoming Catholic…
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 …
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The Life of Chuck: Stephen King and Mike Flanagan on life, death, and the end of the world
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 …
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How the classic McIntosh lost the battle for apple supremacy…
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 …
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Elio is a space adventure that Toy Story’s Andy would actually enjoy
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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A Test Case, What Would Benedict Say, and Cheating Tossers…
Today is the feast of St. Januarius, he of the vial of miraculously re-liquifying blood in the Naples cathedral. There’s plenty interesting to discuss about that triannual event, which sometimes …