Hollywood has been looking for a way to give audiences the big screen experience in this era of social distancing. Classic film series are happening in outdoor venues in Los …
Read moreLong ago in China, during the time of emperors, Hua Mulan (Yifei Liu) is a young woman of marriageable age. Although her rural village is small, a matchmaker (Pei-Pei Cheng) …
Read moreIn 1971, when the new television series “Mrs. America” begins, Phyllis Schlafly, played to perfection by Cate Blanchett, is at the top of her game.
With a graduate degree in government …
Read moreIn the first episode of “Unorthodox,” a new original series from Netflix, Esther Shapiro or “Esty” (Shira Haas) as she is known in her family and ultra-Orthodox Yiddish-speaking Satmar Hasidic …
Read moreOne day, Canadian filmmaker Jon Hyatt looked at his three sons, his wife and his own screen time use and started asking questions: who or what is in control of …
Read moreAn hourlong documentary about the man who could be the second Native American (after St. Kateri Tekakwitha) and first American Indian male to be canonized a saint, is airing on …
Read moreAs ongoing news stories and commentaries on COVID-19 are filled with conflicting information and excess verbiage that distracts from real human needs, talking about truth seems like an excellent idea.
Ann …
Read moreIt’s always hard for me to think of actor and director Ron Howard as a grandfather. To me, he’ll always be Mayberry Sheriff Andy Taylor’s (Andy Griffith) son Opie, permanently about 9-years-old. But even television kids …
Read moreAdam (Charlie Plummer) is in his senior year when he transfers to St. Agatha’s Catholic High School after he is diagnosed with schizophrenia. At his former school, he wrecked the …
Read moreIf there is one thing about one of America’s most famous Catholic novelists, Flannery O’Connor, it is that she defies the boxes we seek to put her in.
A new documentary, …
Read moreHollywood has been looking for a way to give audiences the big screen experience in this era of social distancing. Classic film series are happening in outdoor venues in Los …
Read moreLong ago in China, during the time of emperors, Hua Mulan (Yifei Liu) is a young woman of marriageable age. Although her rural village is small, a matchmaker (Pei-Pei Cheng) …
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