In the year A.D. 33, Mary (Rooney Mara) is a young woman — in the new film “Mary Magdalene” — who spends her days with the women of Magdala along …
Read more“Been there, done that” hasn’t killed the annual New Year’s resolution ritual, despite a failure rate of close to 90 percent. In fact, more people are making them today than …
Read moreScience-fiction cyborgs, or “cybernetic organisms” have been around in print and film for a long time. My personal favorite is the Terminator in futuristic filmmaker James Cameron’s 1991 film “Terminator …
Read moreTucked around a quiet corner of a small courtyard at the intersection of three buildings at Loyola Marymount University, a large banner with the image of an altar boy’s black-and-white …
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Leave No Trace — This very gentle film was co-written with Anne Rosellini and directed by Debra Granik who gave us “Winter’s Bone.” “Leave No Trace” is almost perfect. It draws …
Read moreJust when the Academy for Motion Picture Arts and Sciences decides that it’s not interesting enough for television audiences to see the Oscars for cinematography and editing comes one of …
Read more“Unplanned” is a new film from Chuck Konzelman and Cary Solomon, both known for the Evangelical paranoia, audience-bait trilogy “God’s Not Dead.” They have teamed up again for a true-life …
Read moreThe documentary “Leaving Neverland” — produced and directed by Dan Reed — is a slowly spun, gently told tragedy that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January.
While the filmmaker …
Blase Anthony Bonpane, a former Maryknoll priest and founder with his wife, Theresa (née Killeen), of the Office of the Americas, died two weeks shy of his 90th birthday on …
Read moreFilmmaker Alison Klayman was a one-woman crew for her new documentary, “The Brink,” about the scruffy, underdressed — but always wearing two shirts — former White House strategist and executive …
Read moreBy 1971, Ann Atwater (Taraji P. Henson) and C.P. Ellis (Sam Rockwell) had been on opposite sides for a decade. Ann was an indefatigable African American civil rights activist, advocate …
Read moreBlase Anthony Bonpane, a former Maryknoll priest and founder with his wife, Theresa (née Killeen), of the Office of the Americas, died two weeks shy of his 90th birthday on …
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