2019: Our Year in Film and Television

by Various

Recommended movies and TV shows from the past year.  Continue Reading »

25 Dec 2019

The Ecstasy of the Mob

by Mark Judge

Panique and Richard Jewell share a timeless message: Without due process and the presumption of innocence, people submerged in an environment of hysteria quickly devolve into wolves. Continue Reading »

24 Dec 2019

A Hidden Life: The Story of a Marriage

by Nathaniel Peters

Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life tells the story of Austrian martyr Franz Jägerstätter and his wife Fani, who suffer as one body even when they are apart.  Continue Reading »

20 Dec 2019

Two Popes, Too Many Untruths

by John Waters

As propaganda, The Two Popes is both hugely effective and extremely dangerous.  Continue Reading »

17 Dec 2019

Martin Scorsese's Damned Men Walking

by John Waters

Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman is a meditation on the notion of culpability carried without the possibility of absolution. 
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22 Nov 2019

Joker and Our Crisis of Solidarity

by Sohrab Ahmari

When healthy, reasonable sources of solidarity and communion are allowed to wither and die, unhealthy, unreasonable versions gather strength. Continue Reading »

20 Nov 2019

Don’t See Joker

by Alexi Sargeant

Hollywood needs to learn that evil is not all that interesting. Continue Reading »

23 Oct 2019

Forgiveness at Mother Emanuel

by John Murdock

A new documentary tells a story of forgiveness in the shadow of the South's Confederate past. Continue Reading »

10 Jun 2019

Portals of the Past

by Matthew Schmitz

When the Sight & Sound poll—the oldest and most prestigious film ranking—declared in 2012 that Vertigo was the greatest film ever made, Armond White denounced the film’s admirers for their “obsessive interest in pathology and soullessness.” James Wolcott dismissed the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2018

Superheroes Saving Us From Ourselves

by Christopher R. Altieri

The moral of Avengers: Infinity War is that life is good—indeed, that life is a good, one the good guys seek to preserve, and bad guys seek to destroy.  Continue Reading »

15 May 2018