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Art With a Brutal Heart
Originally Posted: 05/22/2012 - 3:55pm | Type: Magazine Article

Gareth Higgins The best parts of the Disney worldview look like the eschatological images in a Martin Luther King Jr. speech; the worst m ...

Catholics See Rallying Cry for ‘Religious Freedom’ in ‘For Greater Glory’
Originally Posted: 05/24/2012 - 4:11pm | Type: Blog

The bishops' conference has designated June 21 to July 4 as a “Fortnight for Freedom,” to be observed ...

QUIRK: Will Smith as Obama? It's All About the EARS.
Originally Posted: 05/22/2012 - 3:22pm | Type: Blog

Nearly four years after Smith joked about potentially playing Obama in a not-actually-happening biopic on the president's life, the "Men In Black 3" star is at it again. ...

QUIRK: Smell Ya Later, Kristen Wiig. We'll MISS YOU!
Originally Posted: 05/21/2012 - 3:39pm | Type: Blog

From Huffington Post : Kristen Wiig got a musical sendoff on the season finale of "Saturday Night Live" as the popular and versatile cast member made her exit after seven years. In the show's final sketch, guest host Mick Jagger played ...

'Sound of My Voice': Belief, Skepticism and Cults
Originally Posted: 05/16/2012 - 11:14am | Type: Blog

In the feature-length drama Sound of My Voice, Peter Aitken, a 20-something school teacher, is angry at the cultish fanaticism that led to his mother’s death (per her cult’s teaching, she refused to take medic ...

'The Avengers' Lives Up to the Hype
Originally Posted: 05/07/2012 - 11:49am | Type: Blog

This past weekend I joined the ranks of moviegoers and saw the action-packed and highly anticipated superhero movie, The Avengers, and the film lived up to its hype. Ladies and gentlem ...

Top Ten Favorite Celluloid Sisters
Originally Posted: 05/03/2012 - 11:37am | Type: Blog

Silly and serious, strict and kind, profoundly faithful and sometimes hilarious — Catholic nuns are evergreen characters on the big (and the small) screens. Here's a list of some of our favorite portrayals ...

The Power of Attention in East Jerusalem
Originally Posted: 04/23/2012 - 9:20am | Type: Blog

The problem with peaceful protests is that they lack all the headline-grabbing horror of wars and terrorist attacks. They lack the “power of attention” as filmmaker Julia Bacha likes to say. ...

Lessons from Caine’s Arcade: The Vital Joy of Making Things
Originally Posted: 04/13/2012 - 11:52am | Type: Blog

But maybe Caine’s story strikes us because in him we see the embodiment of something we’d like to think the American people still are, but haven’t seen in evidence much anymore. In cas ...

Why We’re Hungry for ‘The Hunger Games’
Originally Posted: 04/02/2012 - 4:02pm | Type: Blog

So does the popularity of The Hunger Games offer good news for those of us concerned about American civilization and the younger generation? I say yes, for a few reasons. The Hunger ...

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