Many people above the age of five have seen Disney’s 1994 original animated feature film, “The Lion King,” or more recently, the Broadway musical. We know the story; we love …

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As I write this review of the documentary film “River of Gold” the Amazon rainforest continues to burn. The fires of 2019 are reportedly human in origin. They were most likely …

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Creating a new consumer market for the internet streaming audience is no easy thing, yet this is what Walmart’s Vudu hopes to do with its first family comedy web series, …

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There is an awful lot of racism, white supremacy and nationalism in our culture this summer. I’m watching Showtime’s limited series “The Loudest Voice” about Fox Television founder Roger Ailes …

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The Williams family in the new film “Waves,” could be any middle-class American family in South Florida that works hard and gets an education. Things are going well — until they are …

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William Kelly is a peace activist who marches, protests, dialogues and contributes to social transformation through the art he creates. His recent project, completed between 2014 and 2016, is a …

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Days after his historic election on March 13, 2013, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, tries to book a ticket to Lampedusa to visit refugees there, but the booking …

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“What better agent of chaos is there than a new Messiah?” asks a character in the new Netflix drama series “Messiah” from show creator and writer Michael Petroni and executive …

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“A Hidden Life,” released Dec. 13 in theatres, is a contemplative kind of biopic of Austrian conscientious objector Franz Jägerstätter (1907-1943). He has now been beatified by the Catholic Church, …

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I wish I had been home that day in 2004 when the 6-foot-6-inch Los Angeles Lakers basketball star Kobe Bryant visited our Pauline Books and Media Center in Culver City, …

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I wish I had been home that day in 2004 when the 6-foot-6-inch Los Angeles Lakers basketball star Kobe Bryant visited our Pauline Books and Media Center in Culver City, …

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“What better agent of chaos is there than a new Messiah?” asks a character in the new Netflix drama series “Messiah” from show creator and writer Michael Petroni and executive …

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