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 …
Read moreAs 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 …
Read moreCreating 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, …
Read moreThere 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 …
Read moreThe 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 …
Read moreWilliam 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 …
Read moreDays 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 …
Read more“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 …
Read more“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, …
Read moreI 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, …
Read moreI 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, …
Read more“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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